Authentically Active: The ClearBridge Podcast

Robin Freeman hosts Ben Buckley and David Hochstim to discuss the role of financial companies in helping the world reach net-zero emissions. They offer highlights from the 2022 ClearBridge Stewardship Report, which gives a comprehensive view of the latest in ESG investing at ClearBridge, explain how they assess climate risks, discuss the value of carbon footprinting, and weigh company commitments to lowering carbon emissions.

Senior Industrials Analyst Hannah Whang and Portfolio Manager Pawel Wroblewski discuss the near-term and secular impacts on industrial companies due to the Russia-Ukraine conflict, highlighting the likelihood of increased defense spending in Europe and the region’s stepped-up focus on energy security.

ClearBridge Portfolio Manager Charles Hamieh weighs in on how infrastructure portfolios fare during periods of inflation and rising bond yields.

ClearBridge’s Investment Strategist Jeff Schulze explains why U.S. economic health, more than geopolitics, will drive markets in 2022.

Director of Research Chuck Harris joins Investment Strategist Jeff Schulze to debate the direction of company profits as the economy grapples with inflation and a normalization of economic growth and monetary policy. They also discuss pandemic changes that leave companies in certain industries well positioned to maintain solid earnings growth and how such growth could support equities.

Chief Investment Officer Scott Glasser joins the Anatomy of a Recession team of Jeff Schulze and Josh Jamner to discuss the impacts of surging inflation on the economy, the outlook for growth and value stocks in a changing monetary regime, what stock market breadth is signaling as well as key risks to the current bull market and economic recovery.

ClearBridge Portfolio Analyst Erica Furfaro and Portfolio Manager Mike Kagan assess the dominance of Netflix in the streaming industry and how other media companies are utilizing streaming for growth as well as provide an overview of the opportunities and privacy challenges facing the leadership names in digital advertising.

ClearBridge's Nick Langley breaks down current inflation signs, including climate-related inflation, and how listed infrastructure is positioned.

Jeff Schulze is joined by Senior Energy Analyst Dimitry Dayen and Senior Consumer Staples Analyst Rob Buesing ahead of the 26th U.N. Conference of the Parties (COP26) on climate change to get a better understanding of how the fight against global warming is shaping markets and what role investors can play. They give an update on electric vehicle adoption, developing emission-saving technologies such as green hydrogen, the role of oil and gas companies in the energy transition, agriculture-related emissions, regenerative agriculture and plant-based foods from an investor perspective.

ClearBridge Senior Health Care Analysts Marshall Gordon and Nick Wu assess current opportunities in health care as the economy works through the Delta variant and elective procedures continue to come back. During the discussion, they pinpoint promising trends in the areas of diabetes and obesity management, new therapies for rare diseases and innovations in clinical testing.