Emilie O’Neill

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Australian Finance Podcast · 🌏 Investing for impact: greenwashing, ESG filters & company engagement · 19 Dec 2022 podcast

And it doesn't discount sustainability, given that there are different ways to do it.

So, yes, there is different types of sustainability in ESG investment strategies, but that's not to discount sustainability.

it as an investment tool because we know that there's a lot of different ways to invest in traditional strategies.

So you can have different investment styles.

You can invest in companies of different sizes.

You can use different valuation techniques.

So even though ESG can be quite broad and you need to choose the type of strategy you want to align yourself with, that doesn't mean that it's any less worthwhile.

It just means that, you know, everyone has their own opinion about what's going to drive returns or what impact they want to have with their investments.

Yeah, it's a really interesting statistic because there's a similar consumer study that's done that shows that 85% of consumers want to align their purchasing decisions with environmental or socially conscious products.

So that's when you go to a supermarket and you choose maybe the organic option or you go to the supermarket and you

choose the bottled water that has 100% recycled plastic.

So we know that majority of investors, sorry, even just consumers think about how they live their life in a more sustainable way.

And they're actually also willing to pay premium for that.

So it doesn't surprise me that investors may be willing to give up some return, but I really want to stress the point that that's not what ESG investing is about.

And actually, you can generate great returns by thinking about how sustainable a business is for so many different reasons.

So...

I mean, there's lots of data out there that suggests that funds over the medium and long term ESG funds have actually outperformed their mainstream or traditional investment products.

And that's over pretty much all asset classes as well.

And it's also shown that these types of funds typically have less volatility, which means that there's less up and down movements in their funds because of the more stable nature of ESG companies.

And a study by McKinsey, and I'm gonna get a little bit technical here, so just hold with me for a second.

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