Energy: An Introduction to ESG Investing
Industry Focus
The Motley Fool
4.6 • 854 Ratings
🗓️ 1 August 2019
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Social and environmental issues have become more and more important in recent years, and investing hasn’t been spared from this trend. As a result, there has been a steady increase in investing based on Environmental, Social, and Governance factors, commonly known as ESG investing. Although ESG is growing in importance, many investors are still unaware of its existence. Motley Fool Analyst Maria Gallagher joins the show to introduce investors to ESG and share one of her favorite ESG investments, Trex.
Stocks Mentioned: TREX
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The Motley Fool’s ESG Investing Framework
ESG Investing: Is Trex a Responsible Investment
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Industry Focus, the podcast that dives into a different sector of the stock market every day. |
| 0:06.5 | Today is Thursday, August 1st and we're discussing ESG investing. |
| 0:09.7 | I'm your host Nick Saipel and today I'm joined by Molly Fool analyst Maria Gallagher. |
| 0:12.8 | What's up Maria? |
| 0:13.8 | Hi, thanks for having me. |
| 0:14.8 | It's great to have you on the show. |
| 0:16.7 | It's first time on Industry Focus. |
| 0:18.1 | You've been in the company what? |
| 0:19.1 | Not even a year yet. |
| 0:20.1 | How are you settling in? |
| 0:21.1 | What are you working on? |
| 0:22.1 | It's pretty good. I've now been here actually over a year. I've been on the investing team for seven months. |
| 0:29.0 | So we just finished doing our IDP, which is our investor development program so me and three other |
| 0:34.6 | guys finished and we're all rotating through different services so right now I'm |
| 0:38.7 | working on the ESG service which brings us to what we're discussing today. |
| 0:43.6 | So ESG for folks who don't know, it's an acronym stands for environment, social, and |
| 0:48.1 | governance issues, and it's barely been kind of evolving as an investment strategy in recent years. |
| 0:54.0 | Just before we dive into what ESG is, can you kind of expound on what we're looking at when |
| 0:59.7 | we talk about those environment, social and governance factors and what that means behind the |
| 1:03.4 | coal ESG investing trend. |
| 1:05.1 | Yeah, definitely. |
| 1:06.1 | So ESG is kind of a lens to look at companies. |
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