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You may have heard that a teeny investment fund managed to force Exxon to take climate change seriously. In this episode, you’ll hear from one of the people behind that successful campaign: Jennifer Grancio, the CEO of Engine #1 Asset Management. We talk about how a myopic fossil fuel focus left Exxon with underperforming investments, and about the ETF they recently launched (VOTE).

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