How to invest ethically in Australia [Free Course!]
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What is ethical investing and why is it important?
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How do you identify your personal values for investing?
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Kate Campbell, what's the definition of a long-term investment?
For me, it's at least 10 years, but I think for most people it would be 7 to 10 years invested in the product or the ETF or the share.
I'd say it's a short-term investment gone wrong. Yep.
Is this your joke for the day?
Yep. Okay. So this episode of the Australian Finance Podcast, you and I, the two of us, and every listener sitting along at home, listening, whether you're in the car on a commute, whatever you're doing, hello. And we are talking about ethical investing, how to do it, what it is, the ins and outs, whether Kate and I do it, controversial, and everything in between. And we're doing this because we've just launched a new course.
Yes, a brand new free course. You might think that we've been launching a few courses this year, and that is true. We had the MyFire course, Financial Independence, Retire Early, come out a month and a half ago now. So that's had a really successful launch, and it's been really encouraging to see all the feedback there and some definite recommendations that we can include in the next version. And then this month, it just sort of all tied together that we launched all the things around the same time we finally got our videographer organized so yeah this month we just launched our ethical investing course which was mostly done by Owen this time and yeah it's really about working out what your values are how you want to invest how to cut through all the noise and
What are the different strategies in ethical investing?
and the marketing and actually look at what's under the lid. So I guess we can talk a little bit more about the course further into the episode. But I guess the thing we want to start with, what is ethical or values-based investing? Because there is so many terms out there describing it. I mean, even just a few like ESG investing, ethical social governance. So there's impact investing, negative investing, positive investing. What's your take on this, Owen? Because I know you did a big survey of our community last year about this.
Yeah, and that was mainly from the Investors Podcast.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is ethical investing and why is it important?
0:00–1:42
2
How do you identify your personal values for investing?
1:42–3:28
3
What are the different strategies in ethical investing?
3:28–5:24
4
What are positive and negative screens in ethical investing?
5:24–7:28
5
What are the top tips for ESG share investors?
7:28–9:53
6
How can you evaluate companies for ethical investments?
9:53–11:48
7
What challenges do ethical investors face?
11:48–13:03
8
How can you get started with ethical investing in Australia?
13:03–47:36
Speakers
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