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Is ESG Investing Impactful And/Or Profitable? A Chat With Ken Pucker

Sep 22, 2021
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There is a strong appetite in the investment community right now for sustainable funds to invest in but does that investment lead to sustainable outcomes, and also important - is it a sound investment?

I read a couple of fascinating articles recently by Ken Pucker which addresses these questions so I invited him to come on the podcast to talk this through. Ken is the former COO of Timberland, is an Advisory Director at Berkshire Partners, and is a Senior Lecturer at the Fletcher School at Tufts University. 

The two articles of Ken's that I read were:

  1. The Trillion Dollar Fantasy: Linking ESG Investing with Planetary Impact and
  2. Heroic Accounting

You should check them out.

This was a truly fascinating episode of the podcast and as always, I learned loads, I hope you do too.

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Music credit - Intro and Outro music for this podcast was composed, played, and produced by my daughter Luna Juniper

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Music credits - Intro by Joseph McDade, and Outro music for this podcast was composed, played, and produced by my daughter Luna Juniper

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