S3E5 - 3 Powerful Tactics Impact Investing shall Better Use to Save the World - a podcast by Antoine Walter
from 2021-07-07T02:00
with ποΈ Florian Heeb & Julian KΓΆlbel - Researchers @ the Center for Sustainable Finance and Private Wealth (CSP) in ZΓΌrich
π§ CSP is an academic research and teaching institution at the Department of Banking and Finance at the University of Zurich.
What we covered:
π The two types of Impact - and what Impact Investing can triggerΒ
π How Impact Investing can grow green companiesΒ
π How Sustainable Finance can make Brown Companies Greener
π How Impact Investors can act as activists for change
π How the tobacco example reminds us that screening strategies are limited by the barriers to change
π How there are always sin stock funds to counterbalance green stock funds - and how those perform unfortunately stupidly well
π How impact investing worldwide is still of the same magnitude as subsidies to the Fossil Fuel Sector
π How the recent Swiss referendum on CO2 law, ignited by a fossil fuel companies industrial group, proves that there is still a long way to go
π How pension funds could leverage their long-term positions in companies to foster an attitude change towards regulation
π How diversification across the three mechanisms probably offers the best yield
π Creating a special water activist fund, accelerating early water companies' growth, creating new business models, taking risks... and much more!
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β‘οΈ Send your warm regards to Florian Heeb on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fheeb/
β‘οΈ Send your warm regards to Julian KΓΆlbel on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/julian-koelbel/
β‘οΈ Get the Full Story (including an infographic and full transcript) here: https://dww.show/3-powerful-tactics-impact-investing-shall-better-use-to-save-the-world/
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