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Rachel Robasciotti - Investing for Social Justice
Rachel Robasciotti - Investing for Social Justice
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Length:
42 minutes
Released:
Feb 23, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Tune in to hear:- What is Rachel’s origin story and what led her down a path that bridges social justice and finance?- What is redlining and why will climate change disproportionately effect already marginalized groups?- Why did Rachel feel like finance was the best tool at her disposal for approaching social justice issues?- Rachel gets her investment data directly from the communities that are most impacted by the issues she is fighting for. How does she get this data, how does it differ from more traditional data sources and how does it augment her company's investment process?- When Rachel was striving to get rid of forced arbitration clauses how did she go about this? Was it through divesting, voting shares, advocacy or some other means?- How are social injustices potential investment risks and how might a social justice oriented portfolio outperform a more broadly focused portfolio?- What kind of research does Rachel’s company do on fundamentals to ensure these companies are sound financially in addition to ethically?- In recent years there have been some pretty vitriolic attacks on ESG - which of these critiques are fair in Rachel’s mind and how can a client reliably distinguish a “real” ESG product from one that is just a marketing ploy?- Does investing in line with your personal values offer any measurable benefit to your investing behaviors?Compliance Code: 0431-OAS-2/13/2023Copy: 0356-OAS-2/7/2023https://adasina.com
Released:
Feb 23, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
Humankind's Greatest GIft Is Also Its Greatest Liability: If bees organize by innate mandate and chimps through tight-knit social interactions, the miracle of human ascendance in the animal kingdom owes to a penchant for behaving in accordance with social narratives. To put it bluntly, we act as if the stories we make up are real. As Harari writes in the magisterial Sapiens, “As far as we know, only Sapiens can talk about entire kinds of entities that they have never seen, touched or smelled.” A monkey can say, “There is a caribou by the river” but could never communicate that, “The caribou by the river is the spiritual guardian of our city.” This ability to communicate about the unreal allows us to create all manner of social structures that help bring about predictable human behavior and that reliably breed trust. The State of Alabama, the Catholic church, the Constitution of the United States of America, the inalienable civil rights of man: none of these things are “real” in the by Standard Deviations with Dr. Daniel Crosby