Bill Davis Returns to Discuss ESG Controversies & Values-Based Investing

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In this episode, Kaitlyn Allen welcomes back Bill Davis, founder of Stance Capital, which was established in 2016 to bring to market investment portfolios that mitigate material environmental, social, and governance risks and generate excess returns while at the same time allowing investors to align their portfolios with their belief systems. Bill has a BA from Connecticut College and has taught or been a guest lecturer at Columbia University, Harvard College & Harvard Business School, MIT & MIT Sloan, and Vanderbilt University. Bill also serves on the boards of Ceres and the Children’s Environmental Literacy Foundation.

Listen as she and Bill discuss the current controversies and debates related to ESG and the need for practitioners and investors to regroup and revisit the scope and purpose of this work. Bill and Kaitlyn think of ESG as an agnostic risk screening of material issues, a different concept than values-based investing, in which investors seek to align investments with their personal values. This distinction is critical to defusing the poorly informed bluster about ESG, in which critics have incorrectly conflated the concept of ESG screening with values-based investing.

Check out  our previous episode (#54), How ESG Investment Products Are Built, also featuring Bill!

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/esg-decoded/id1553348139?i=1000555720018

Additional resource boosts include:

• Stance’s Investment Performance Summary: https://www.stancecap.com/performance

• Stance Equity ESG Large Cap Core ETF (stancefunds.com): http://stancefunds.com/

• ESG ETFs, Sustainable Investments | Stance Capital: https://www.stancecap.com/

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