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Episode 50 | June 25, 2019

Taking an Entrepreneurial Approach to Advising Family Offices and Foundations

with Karen Wawrzaszek, Senior Director of Financial Planning at Sullivan, Bruyette, Speros & Blayney

Wawrzaszek discusses the firm’s entrepreneurial approach to strategic planning and investment advice across multiple generations of family wealth.

Episode 49 | June 17, 2019

Allianz Global Investors Combines Active Management and Shareholder Advocacy

with Christian McCormick, CFA, Director and Senior ESG Specialist with Allianz Global Investors

McCormick shares his experience of shareholder advocacy–in 2018 the firm participated in 8,500 shareholder meetings. Alliance GI reported poor links between executive pay and company performance and voted against 74% of compensation proposals in the U.S.

Episode 48 | June 9, 2019

How MPOWERD Is Becoming a Global Leader in Solar Powered LED Lighting

with Seungah Jeong, President and CEO MPOWERD INC

Since I interviewed Jeong a year ago, MPOWERD has increased the number of people whose lives benefit from Luci lights to 3 million from 2.3 million. In this interview she shares how they’ve become the leader in solar powered portable lighting, and as a centennial partner for Save the Children Foundation are distributing 10,000 Luci […]

Episode 47 | June 3, 2019

AB’s Municipal Impact Strategy Delivers Performance and Opportunity

with Eric Glass, Senior Vice President and Senior Portfolio Manager, Fixed Income Impact Strategy at AllianceBernstein

Listen to the story of how Glass created AllianceBernstein’s Municipal Impact Strategy to invest in underserved and low-socio-economic status communities. Glass explains how investing healthcare, education, mass transit, water/waste water and renewable energy infrastructure can generate a 4% tax-exempt yield on investment.

Episode 46 | May 30, 2019

New Challenges, New Opportunities: The 2019 US SIF Conference

with Lisa Woll, CEO at US SIF: The Forum for Sustainable and Responsible Investment

Woll discusses hot topics on the agenda for this year’s conference, like potential changes in the Department of Labor guidelines for ESG investment strategies in ERISA-governed retirement plans and this year’s key advocacy initiatives being deployed by the Global Sustainable Investment Alliance.

Episode 45 | May 20, 2019

Generating Alpha Through Active Portfolio Management at Brown Advisory

with Karina Funk, Partner, Portfolio Manager, and Head of Sustainable Investing at Brown Advisory

Funk shares her three criteria for choosing companies with sustainable business advantages (SBAs) for the Brown Advisory Large Cap Sustainable Growth Portfolio, which invests in companies that will thrive in a resource-constrained world.

Episode 44 | May 13, 2019

Growing Impact Investing and Reducing Greenwashing

with Gil Crawford, CEO MicroVest

Impact investing is growing fast but greenwashing is increasing due to lack of regulatory oversight. Crawford brings his 25 years of experience in micro finance and the capital markets to this discussion of the World Bank’s newly launched operating principles designed to reduce greenwashing in the impact investing landscape.  

Episode 43 | May 8, 2019

How Nuveen Is Addressing the Responsible Investing Taxonomy Problem

with Amy O'Brien, Head of Responsible Investing at Nuveen, a TIAA company

How do advisors and asset managers integrate portfolio strategies, shareholder activism and other investor motivations? O’Brien describes Nuveen’s rigorous, platform-wide approach.

Episode 42 | May 3, 2019

S&P Dow Jones Indices Launches New ESG Indices

with Mona Naqvi, Senior Director and Global ESG Spokesperson for S&P Dow Jones Indices

Mona Naqvi discusses her group’s launch of the S&P 500 ESG Index, the basis for a UBS Asset Management ETF that’s now available. She also discusses the creation of numerous ESG indices and her ongoing work with Japan’s government pension investment fund (GPIF), the world’s largest, to systematically reduce exposure to high carbon companies through […]

Episode Webinar | April 16, 2019

Climate Risk 2019: Global Capital Markets and Public Policy Options

with Lisa Woll, CEO, US SIF; Jeff Gitterman, Co-founding Partner, Gitterman Wealth Management; Claudine Schneider, Founding President & former U.S. Congresswoman, Solar Alliance; Francis Condon, Executive Director - Sustainable & Impact Investing, UBS Asset Management

From 1998 to 2017 the global economic cost of climate-related disasters skyrocketed 151% over the previous 20 year period to $2.25 trillion. Join our expert panelists for a discussion about future climate risk assessment options for companies, investors, financial advisors and policymakers.