Viewsroom: Climate transition, Chinese stocks
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Reuters
4.4 • 58 Ratings
🗓️ 29 July 2021
⏱️ 18 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | AI is incredible. They can teach you how to fry an egg and even write a poem, pirate style. |
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| 0:28.8 | to learn more. The views expressed on this podcast are those of the participants, not of Roald's News. |
| 0:38.3 | Some of the world's biggest investors, including Brookfield Asset Management and TPG, are |
| 0:43.0 | launching mega funds to invest in the global transition to a net zero economy in what could |
| 0:48.3 | be the ultimate new asset class. Plus, Beijing's crackdown on after-school tutoring. Listen up. Welcome to the views room. I'm |
| 0:59.0 | Rob Cox, the editor of Breaking Views, the financial commentary arm of Reuters News, coming to you from |
| 1:04.3 | the heart of Europe, Zurich, Switzerland. This week saw two of the world's top investment managers |
| 1:09.0 | launch funds dedicated to the global transition to a net zero economy. |
| 1:13.6 | Brookfield Asset Management launched a $7 billion fund with backers including Ontario, |
| 1:17.6 | Teachers' Pension Plan Board, and Singapore's Tommasek. |
| 1:21.6 | It will be co-led by former Bank of England boss and Brookfield Vice Chair Mark Carney, who is also the UN's special envoy on climate action and finance, |
| 1:29.4 | and it could raise up to $12.5 billion in total. |
| 1:33.8 | On the same day, investment firm TPG announced the first close of $5.5 billion in subscriptions |
| 1:38.7 | to its inaugural TPG-Rise Climate Fund with a hard cap of around $7 billion. |
| 1:46.6 | The goal for both is to invest in the decarbitization of the world's economy, including industries that are traditionally dirty like |
| 1:50.8 | steel, cement, and of course transportation. Our deputy editor, Richard Beals, says the more private |
| 1:56.3 | sector money-chasing investments that could limit the damage to the planet, the less heavy-lifting |
| 2:00.9 | governments around the world need to do with taxpayers' money. |
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