S3E5 - 3 Powerful Tactics Impact Investing shall Better Use to Save the World

with 🎙️ Florian Heeb & Julian Kölbel - Researchers @ the Center for Sustainable Finance and Private Wealth (CSP) in Zürich

💧 CSP is an academic research and teaching institution at the Department of Banking and Finance at the University of Zurich.

What we covered:

🍏 The two types of Impact - and what Impact Investing can trigger 

🍏 How Impact Investing can grow green companies 

🍏 How Sustainable Finance can make Brown Companies Greener

🍏 How Impact Investors can act as activists for change

🍏 How the tobacco example reminds us that screening strategies are limited by the barriers to change

🍏 How there are always sin stock funds to counterbalance green stock funds - and how those perform unfortunately stupidly well

🍏 How impact investing worldwide is still of the same magnitude as subsidies to the Fossil Fuel Sector

🍏 How the recent Swiss referendum on CO2 law, ignited by a fossil fuel companies industrial group, proves that there is still a long way to go

🍏 How pension funds could leverage their long-term positions in companies to foster an attitude change towards regulation

🍏 How diversification across the three mechanisms probably offers the best yield

🍏 Creating a special water activist fund, accelerating early water companies' growth, creating new business models, taking risks... and much more!

🔥 ... and of course, we concluded with the 𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 🔥 

➡️ Send your warm regards to Florian Heeb on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fheeb/

➡️ Send your warm regards to Julian Kölbel on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/julian-koelbel/

➡️ Get the Full Story (including an infographic and full transcript) here: https://dww.show/3-powerful-tactics-impact-investing-shall-better-use-to-save-the-world/

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