Sustainable Finance Around the World With SustainFinance's Paul Smith, CFA

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Sustainable Finance Around the World With SustainFinance's Paul Smith, CFA

Sloane Ortel

Nov 02, 2021

We're joined in this episode by Paul Smith, CFA, a co-founder of SustainFinance and the former CEO Of CFA Institute. We chat about:

His favorite experience leading CFA Institute, which is global beyond simple comprehension.
How prepared the industry is to navigate the climate transition
Whether ESG Investing is just a new form of colonialism

We also discussed his outlook for Hong Kong as a financial center and, as always, took questions from listeners.

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Free Money with Sloane and Ashby

Most sane people have given up hope that the finance industry can be a catalyst for positive change, but not Sloane Ortel and Ashby Monk. Since Free Money launched in 2019, they have helped listeners understand the true power (and immense potential) of long-term investing through accessible, authoritative, and deeply irreverent conversations with others pushing for progress. In the process, they’ve helped literally dozens of listeners understand root causes of the industry’s misalignment with the modern world and radicalized them into pushing for positive change.

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