ESTea #6 07/06/21: Hiring for ESG
With ESG a growing theme at almost every financial institution, investor, and fund – there is a growing battle for the best ESG talent with no obvious answer of how that demand is going to be filled.
ESTea #5 01/06/21: Wherein the author defends some ‘green’ hedge funds that invest in oil companies
It’s a tale as old as time. Monkey see band wagon, monkey get on the band wagon.
ESTea #4 24/05/21: ExxonMobil AGM Pressure
On May 26th (this Wednesday), Exxon’s AGM will bring to a head the last year of activity from proactive, environmentally-minded shareholders.
ESTea #3 17/05/21: Papa Musk Delivers the ESG Tendies
This was the week were Bitcoin got its bad boy image back – partly because it puts out more carbon dioxide than a small country countries, but mainly because a billionaire playboy (come playadult) tweeted about the previous fact.
ESTea #2 10/05/21: Setting off from basecamp
We’ve been doing some work here at Edgefolio to see what the world of ‘ESG’ funds really looks like. With our Fund Platform technology we’re in a unique position to be able to search through our database of 150,000+ funds, looking for fund names and descriptions with the most popular ‘ethical’ investing terms.