Big Money: Investment Managers Driving Corporate Action
Climate One
Climate One
4.7 • 585 Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2022
⏱️ 55 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Olivia Culpo here to tell you all about the launch of the new Abercrombie spring denim collection, |
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| 0:36.0 | This is Climate One. I'm Greg Dalton. Money managers wield a lot of power to push companies to act in the interest of their shareholders. |
| 0:38.6 | The financial risks posed by the climate crisis continued to be front and center of |
| 0:43.8 | investors' minds. |
| 0:45.3 | Increasingly, active investors are making corporations quantify and address their climate |
| 0:50.2 | responsibility in order to protect their investments. |
| 0:53.9 | When you make a strong shareholder value argument, you make it easy for other shareholders |
| 0:59.4 | to come along with you. |
| 1:01.0 | But how much can tinkering with stock markets put us on the right course? |
| 1:05.0 | The solution to climate change needs to be strong binding government regulations to limit |
| 1:10.0 | polluting emissions. Finance and voluntary |
| 1:12.9 | corporate action or citizen behavior is not going to get us there. Investment managers driving |
| 1:18.6 | corporate action up next on Climate One. More than half of Americans are invested in the |
| 1:26.6 | stock market, either directly or through their retirement funds, |
| 1:29.7 | and yet most of the leverage to direct that money rests with large institutional investors, |
| 1:34.8 | like the companies that manage those retirement funds. |
| 1:38.3 | So how are those asset managers accounting for climate risk? |
| 1:41.5 | And can they drive corporate leaders to be more accountable for |
| 1:44.7 | their emissions today and cut emissions tomorrow? I invited three financial industry experts to discuss |
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