Trailer: Inside ESG
The Story of Money
Manuela Saragosa
4.4 • 400 Ratings
🗓️ 22 September 2021
⏱️ 2 minutes
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Summary
Behind the Money presents a special 5-part series produced in partnership with the FT’s Moral Money team that goes inside the colossal sums flowing into sustainable investing.
Trillions have flooded into funds that have made environmental, social and governance issues, or ESG, central to their investment strategies. As the world begins slowly to recover from the multiple shocks of the pandemic, we take listeners to the center of a loaded debate: Will a shift to more sustainable investments actually help create a more resilient and equitable future - or is ESG just a powerful marketing ploy?
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| 0:00.0 | Can you make money and leave the world a better place? |
| 0:05.0 | Businesses are increasingly being asked to be seen to be doing something to try and address bigger social challenges. |
| 0:11.0 | Companies have been embracing environmental, social and governance or ESG causes. |
| 0:18.0 | We're talking about climate change, biodiversity, everything that you can think about that affects the world around us. |
| 0:25.0 | Investors have pumped more than 1.7 trillion dollars into the assets and shares of ESG friendly companies. |
| 0:33.0 | There was, at least in my mind, this idea that we could reform capitalism. |
| 0:37.0 | Businesses that don't play ball have felt the heat. |
| 0:40.0 | A small hedge fund that nobody had ever heard of went public in a fairly aggressive way |
| 0:46.4 | with their campaign against ExxonMobil, which is just this huge powerful |
| 0:50.9 | storied American corporate giant. |
| 0:53.7 | The sums are colossal, the causes, noble. |
| 0:57.3 | But how much real world impact is ESG investing actually having? |
| 1:02.4 | I think what made me emotional, what frustrated me, is that we didn't |
| 1:08.4 | have an opportunity to change things. When I went under the side of the machine, it turned out to me to be mostly smoke and mirrors. |
| 1:16.5 | I'm Manuel de la Saragossa. |
| 1:18.4 | This fall on behind the money from the Financial Times, a special five-part series inside the hope and hype of ESG investing. |
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