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What are companies for?
Ruth Sunderland, the group business editor of the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday, asks industry leaders and thinkers about the purpose of companies. Should they be organisations designed to generate profits for the benefit of shareholders, or do they have a bigger role to play in society? What part do they play in environmental policy? Ruth investigates ESG investments, which claim to promote environmental, social and corporate governance best practice, and have become a trillion pound industry. Why has ESG become a flashpoint in the US political culture wars and could the same happen in the UK?
Presenter: Ruth Sunderland
Producer: Farhana Haider
Editor: Clare Fordham
Sound Engineer: Nicky Edwards
Production Coordinator: Maria Ogundele
Contributors:
Mark Goyder Founder, Tomorrows Company
Euan Munro, Chief Executive, Newton Investment Management
Merryn Somerset Webb, Senior Columnist at Bloomberg.
Philip Gill, small Investor
Giulia Chierchia, Executive Vice President for Strategy, Sustainability, and Ventures at BP
Louise Oliver, Co-Founder, Piercefield Oliver Chartered Financial Planners
Rachel, Small investor
Dr Nina Seega, Director for the Centre for Sustainable Finance at the Cambridge Institute of Sustainability Leadership
Tariq Fancy, Former Chief Investment officer for Sustainability Investing at BlackRock
Witold Henisz, Vice Dean and faculty director of the ESG initiative at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
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Ruth Sunderland, the group business editor of the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday, asks industry leaders and thinkers about the purpose of companies. Should they be organisations designed to generate profits for the benefit of shareholders, or do they have a bigger role to play in society? What part do they play in environmental policy? Ruth investigates ESG investments, which claim to promote environmental, social and corporate governance best practice, and have become a trillion pound industry. Why has ESG become a flashpoint in the US political culture wars and could the same happen in the UK?
Presenter: Ruth Sunderland
Producer: Farhana Haider
Editor: Clare Fordham
Sound Engineer: Nicky Edwards
Production Coordinator: Maria Ogundele
Contributors:
Mark Goyder Founder, Tomorrows Company
Euan Munro, Chief Executive, Newton Investment Management
Merryn Somerset Webb, Senior Columnist at Bloomberg.
Philip Gill, small Investor
Giulia Chierchia, Executive Vice President for Strategy, Sustainability, and Ventures at BP
Louise Oliver, Co-Founder, Piercefield Oliver Chartered Financial Planners
Rachel, Small investor
Dr Nina Seega, Director for the Centre for Sustainable Finance at the Cambridge Institute of Sustainability Leadership
Tariq Fancy, Former Chief Investment officer for Sustainability Investing at BlackRock
Witold Henisz, Vice Dean and faculty director of the ESG initiative at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
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