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Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) news and investment research brought to you weekly covering major market trends and new research insights. With topics ranging from climate impact on investment portfolios, corporate actions, trending investment topics, and emerging ESG issues, host Mike Disabato of MSCI ESG Research walk through the latest news and research that is top of mind for MSCI ESG Research clients and partners.
MSCI ESG Research products and services are provided by MSCI ESG Research LLC, and are designed to provide in-depth research, ratings and analysis of environmental, social and governance-related business practices to companies worldwide. ESG ratings, data and analysis from MSCI ESG Research LLC are also used in the construction of the MSCI ESG Indexes. MSCI ESG Research LLC is a Registered Investment Adviser under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 and a subsidiary of MSCI Inc.

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The ESG Weekly: McDonald's AI play and Purdue settles on the Week of March 25 from 2022-03-04T06:45:17.988178

Two stories with ESG glasses: are the efficiency gains of AI at McDonald's worth the data risk (1:19), and what does it mean for Purdue to settle some opioid litigation for the industry(5:26), all ...

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Back to School Special: Student Debt, Consumer Finance, and Robots from 2022-03-04T06:45:17.964054

Student debt is huge in the US, but as an investor, is it a good bet? The trend of consumer finance (1:44), Navient stands out (3:38), the reckoning is... robots?(5:35), and it might actually be a...

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The ESG Weekly: Im(possible?) Burgers and Wells Fargo CEO Search on the Week of April 1 from 2019-04-05T00:00

Two stories with ESG glasses: what exactly is the investor angle for Burger King's Impossible Burger play (1:34), and what does it mean that Wells Fargo can't find a new CEO (4:16), all on the record.

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The ESG Weekly: Im(possible?) Burgers and Wells Fargo CEO Search on the Week of April 1 from 2019-04-05T00:00

Two stories with ESG glasses: what exactly is the investor angle for Burger King's Impossible Burger play (1:34), and what does it mean that Wells Fargo can't find a new CEO (4:16), all on the record.

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The ESG Weekly: Im(possible?) Burgers and Wells Fargo CEO Search on the Week of April 1 from 2019-04-05T00:00

Two stories with ESG glasses: what exactly is the investor angle for Burger King's Impossible Burger play (1:34), and what does it mean that Wells Fargo can't find a new CEO (4:16), all on the record.

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The ESG Weekly: Paul Ryan and Robots on the Week of March 17 from 2019-03-22T00:00

Two stories with ESG glasses: is Paul Ryan on the board of Fox Corp a good idea (1:35), and how the next tech disruption might be social and not technological (3:25), all on the record.

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Leadership Crisis, or Crisis in Influence? from 2019-03-19T00:00

The cocktail of hyper transparency and societal change makes for vulnerable leaders (3:25), but predicting who's next may be a bridge too far (5:15), but investors have solutions to limit the pain ...

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The ESG Weekly: Week of March 10 from 2019-03-15T00:00

Two stories with ESG glasses: is the Boeing problem software, or automation (1:48), and how with the Uber and Lyft IPOs, one is not like the other (6:26), all on the record.

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The ESG Weekly: Week of March 3 from 2019-03-08T00:00

Two stories with ESG glasses: Nordea and money laundering (3:48), and the toilet paper conundrum (7:00), all on the record.

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Who Pays for Corruption? from 2019-02-26T00:00

We all pay for corruption, maybe without knowing it (2:12), or maybe in ways that are obvious (3:48), but investors are finding out corruption isn't just an emerging market problem (7:04), all on t...

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The Power of Peer Pressure on Pay from 2019-02-19T00:00

Companies pick their peers, and it matters, and sometimes investors aren't happy (2:49), even if directors are protected (4:16), but not from shareholders with power (6:20), all on the record.

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Halloween is a Time for Zombies, Ghosts, and Frankenstein from 2018-10-30T00:00

It's Halloween, and that means ghosts need not apply (2:55), shareholder value might get eaten by zombies (7:33), and your creation might be a monster (12:03), all on the record.

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A Short History of ESG: Part II from 2018-10-15T00:00

Modern ESG investing is a choose your own adventure, especially when soda meets marijuana. Path 1: Invest your values (1:47), Path 2: Invest for the money (6:02), Path 3: Invest for impact (9:33),...

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Join the Gang: Climate Edition from 2018-09-24T00:00

A task force chaired by a billionaire has sent investors looking for advice on climate from unlikely sources that may just have them joining a gang. The TCFD (0:00), learning from... oil and gas? ...

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The Privacy of Things from 2018-09-18T00:00

Could the data you provide your dishwasher some day be more valuable than the dishwasher? Internet of Things (0:00), hacking and Hackers (2:55), the GDPR (4:00), Cambridge Analytica (7:06), conver...

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When Genius Meets Governance from 2018-09-11T00:00

Thinking of Tesla, how should an investor balance good governance with visionary brilliance? Atari and Tesla (0:22), checks and balances (2:32), overgovernance at Apple (4:13), Google's golden sha...

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Indra Nooyi, and Why Diversity of Management Matters from 2018-08-30T00:01

Longtime PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi... or one of few women CEOs?... steps down. We talk to Meggin Thwing-Eastman about why that matters. 'Another female CEO done' (0:36), board diversity and employe...

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Where should we even start? 2018 ESG Trends redux from 2018-08-28T00:00

Environmental, social, and governance investing related news, research, and trends. In this episode, we start at the beginning... of 2018. We revisit our conversation with Linda-Eling Lee from Ja...

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