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What is behind a sustainable investment label?

An archive interview with Shane Obata about looking beyond a sustainable label to the businesses behind it.

A sustainable label is a starting point for questions, not the end of them. In this archive conversation, Shane Obata and I discuss how investment managers look at environmental, social and governance issues, often called ESG.

Watch: 14:30

Watch: 14:30 · Originally uploaded January 2022.

We explore greenwashing and examples from agriculture, food and wellness. Keep the date of the interview in mind: the companies and investments discussed are historical examples, not a shopping list. Focus on the questions being asked about them.

Archive interview uploaded in January 2022. Company, fund and market information may have changed. This recording is not a current investment recommendation or a guarantee of returns.

A question to carry

  1. What would you want to know before trusting a sustainable label?

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