Responsible Investing for a Sustainable Economy

*This episode is a re-release, originally released Friday, Nov 5, 2021*

Guests: Jessica Moorhouse, host of the More Money podcast, and Adria Vasil, managing editor of Corporate Knights magazine and author of the ecoholic book series

On the premiere episode of the "Responsible Investing for a Sustainable Economy" podcast, host Tim Nash speaks with Jessica Moorhouse, host of the More Money podcast, who helps us get into the mindset of a person at the start of their investment journey. He is also joined by Adria Vasil, managing editor of Corporate Knights magazine. Adria compares the rise of responsible consumerism to the rise of responsible investing.

Host Tim Nash wants to help you understand how to invest responsibly. Join him every Friday to make sense of responsible investing.

Guest: Julie Segal

With COP27 having recently wrapped, credible climate plans — both at the state and corporate levels — are once again at the forefront of investors' minds.

Julie Segal is the senior program manager for climate finance at Canadian charity Environmental Defence. She just returned from the conference in Egypt and discusses the prevalence of corporate greenwashing and the report "Roadmap to a Sustainable Financial System in Canada," which she co-authored.

Guest: Chris Turner

With the news flooded with stories of wildfires, unprecedented droughts and rapidly-shrinking glaciers, it can be tempting for even the most ardent environmentalist to throw up their hands in despair.

Calgary-based author Chris Turner joins host Tim Nash on this episode of 'Responsible Investing for a Sustainable Economy' to provide some much-needed good news on the climate change front. In his latest book, "How to Be a Climate Optimist: Blueprints for a Better World," he highlights places around the globe that are making remarkable environmental progress.

Guest: Patricia Fletcher

Last week, the Responsible Investment Association released the 2022 Canadian Responsible Investment Trends Report. This much-anticipated annual offering shows how the biggest investors are approaching responsible investing — currently a $3-trillion sum in Canada.

In this episode of 'Responsible Investing for a Sustainable Economy,' RIA CEO Patricia Fletcher joins host Tim Nash to unpack this year's findings.

Guests: Armine Yalnizyan and Darryl Brown

With inflation spiking and a recession looming, it's a difficult time to be thinking about investing. In a frank discussion, economist and Atkinson Fellow on the Future of Workers Armine Yalnizyan digs into the root causes of the country's current economic pain and the road ahead. On the back end of the episode, You&Yours Financial's Darryl Brown offers some practical tips for investors navigating turbulent times.

Guest: Sarah Keyes

Environmental, social and governance metrics have been a going concern for investing for close to 20 years, but what do these metrics actually mean? And who determines how an investment qualifies as "green" or "sustainable?"

Sarah Keyes is the CEO of ESG Global Advisors. In this episode of "Responsible Investing for a Sustainable Economy," she walks host Tim Nash through new and developing guidelines and ratings being set up for ESG investing. She believes that ESG funds are moving out of their awkward teen years and into adulthood — with all the growing pains that comes with.

Guest: Seth Klein, founder of Climate Emergency Unit

Fighting climate change is the existential crisis of our times. Why can't we seem to coordinate en masse the same way we have with other crises of massive scale? When Canada entered World War Two in 1939, the country radically transformed its economy and its very society in a matter of months. In fact at its peak, one in 11 Canadians was directly employed in military production—and a similar number was actively fighting.

Seth Klein is a lifelong activist, the founder of the Climate Emergency Unit and the author of "A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency." He argues the same type of mass mobilization needs to take place in this country to combat climate change.

Guest: Jonathon Porritt, Founder, Forum for the Future

Jonathon Porritt, a noted environmentalist and writer, has been at the forefront of the British green movement for five decades. And though he acknowledges the environmental precipice the Earth is currently perched on, he also admits to a sense of hopefulness he hasn't felt in a long time.

In this episode of "Responsible Investing for a Sustainable Economy," Porritt talks about navigating that path between despair and hope and the work that his organization, Forum for the Future, is doing promoting the transition to a low-carbon economy.

GUEST: Lesley-Anne Scorgie, founder of MeVest

For young people, investing can be daunting enough, but add the terms "ethical" or "sustainable" in front of it and it's enough to dissuade all but the most diligent first-time investors.

Fortunately, personal finance guru Lesley-Anne Scorgie has a few tips and tricks for new investors to build their portfolios while not compromising their values. As the founder of MeVest, a financial educational company providing money coaching for Canadians, Scorgie has accumulated a wealth of valuable information tailored for new investors.

In this episode of "Responsible Investing for a Sustainable Economy," Scorgie recounts buying her first bond as a 10 year old with money she earned babysitting as well as navigating sketchy stock tips as a first-year university student, all while determining how to best keep her portfolio green.

GUEST: Alex Edmans, professor of finance at the London Business School

Welcome to Season Two of "Responsible Investing for a Sustainable Economy!"

The guest to kick off our sophomore season is Dr. Alex Edmans, professor of finance at the London Business School, noted TED speaker and author of "Grow the Pie: How Great Companies Deliver Both Purpose and Profit." In this wide-ranging interview, Edmans expands on the book's opening sentence, "Capitalism is in crisis," where he explains that the system may work well for corporations, but doesn't always trickle down to individuals — or the planet. Instead, Edmans believes that "growing the pie" does not necessarily exclusively mean increasing the profits, but enhancing social value as well. And if that's the case, does that change the commonly-accepted definition of environmental, social and governance, or ESG?