Menu
Sign In Search Podcasts Libraries Charts People & Topics Add Podcast API Blog Pricing

Claude Walker

πŸ‘€ Speaker
342 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

Australian Finance Podcast
Ethical ASX Investing & Shareholder Activism ft. Claude Walker

of which I was also a shareholder.

Australian Finance Podcast
Ethical ASX Investing & Shareholder Activism ft. Claude Walker

So there is a long history and they've had the internal disagreements and fights about things as well.

Australian Finance Podcast
Ethical ASX Investing & Shareholder Activism ft. Claude Walker

But it's a long standing history of like, I guess, greenie boomers for want of a better description that sort of started this thing and driven it a long way.

Australian Finance Podcast
Ethical ASX Investing & Shareholder Activism ft. Claude Walker

And I just think that there is like a lot of good in the enthralled into like maneuverings over the years.

Australian Finance Podcast
Ethical ASX Investing & Shareholder Activism ft. Claude Walker

I think there's like a lot of integrity in that company DNA.

Australian Finance Podcast
Ethical ASX Investing & Shareholder Activism ft. Claude Walker

So hence I have a soft spot for them.

Australian Finance Podcast
Ethical ASX Investing & Shareholder Activism ft. Claude Walker

And then, but of course, how can you criticize the well-meaning nature of something like Future Super, which, you know, is started by like climate activists in response partly to the fact

Australian Finance Podcast
Ethical ASX Investing & Shareholder Activism ft. Claude Walker

that Australian ethical was investing in Westpac essentially.

Australian Finance Podcast
Ethical ASX Investing & Shareholder Activism ft. Claude Walker

And they wanted to have a climate, you know, a climate friendly super option.

Australian Finance Podcast
Ethical ASX Investing & Shareholder Activism ft. Claude Walker

And that's how the beta shares ones that I was talking about, the ETS, that's what created the demand for those beta shares ETS, which you can now just directly buy on the stock market with lower fees, which is a great product of which everyone's benefited.

Australian Finance Podcast
Ethical ASX Investing & Shareholder Activism ft. Claude Walker

So there's a lot of good people that have done a lot of good things over the years in this space.

Australian Finance Podcast
Ethical ASX Investing & Shareholder Activism ft. Claude Walker

But then of course you also do have like down at the bottom of the pile, you know,

Australian Finance Podcast
Ethical ASX Investing & Shareholder Activism ft. Claude Walker

you know, I don't think it would matter for me to say this, but like historically, I think it's fair to say that AMP, for example, has put out some, you know, ethical investing products, which I've found less than impressive.

Australian Finance Podcast
Ethical ASX Investing & Shareholder Activism ft. Claude Walker

You know, I wouldn't, I would hope, you know, I would, I don't think I would put it, I would put it out there that, you know, people would have invested in those products thinking that they were more ethical than they were, put it that way, in my opinion.

Australian Finance Podcast
Ethical ASX Investing & Shareholder Activism ft. Claude Walker

And then you've also got, you know, the adherence, like there's an interesting vibe, an interesting movement, especially amongst certain people who tend to be older, but not always, but mostly are older people, where they almost find ethical investing like offensive, like for some reason, to the point where they'll attack it and say, oh, it's wrong to, you know, there's been articles basically saying that, you know,

Australian Finance Podcast
Ethical ASX Investing & Shareholder Activism ft. Claude Walker

ethical investing is bad.

Australian Finance Podcast
Ethical ASX Investing & Shareholder Activism ft. Claude Walker

And then those same organizations that publish those articles, like subsequently, you know, 10, 20 years later, they're like putting out, you know, oh, here's our ethical fund offering, you know?

Australian Finance Podcast
Ethical ASX Investing & Shareholder Activism ft. Claude Walker

And, you know, on the happy side, that means that there's change within the organization and that's organizations getting better and more open to it.

Australian Finance Podcast
Ethical ASX Investing & Shareholder Activism ft. Claude Walker

So that's good as well.

Australian Finance Podcast
Ethical ASX Investing & Shareholder Activism ft. Claude Walker

So I think there's probably...