The Plan for Happy Podcast
Adam Walkom is a former investment bank trader and management consultant who is now a founding partner of Permanent Wealth Partners and author of Plan for Happy - A step-by-step guide to growing your wealth.
Building wealth and investing are both much more of an art form than a science and have much more to do with human and behavioural psychology than economics.
Join Adam as he goes on a journey interviewing fascinating guests who share their deeply-held insights and experiences from years of building wealth and investing professionally.
The Plan for Happy Podcast
The Permanent Wealth Podcast 04: Jean-Marc Routier of BlackRock
My discussion today is with Jean-Marc Routier, Product Strategist at BlackRock. Emerging Market equities. ESG for Active Equities
The unique aspect about Jean-Marc is he has an inside view on how the largest asset manager in the world – BlackRock – is making decisions around ESG that impact their entire funds business. This funds business has $8.2 Trillion under management which is larger than Germany’s GDP for reference.
In a fascinating and really insightful conversation, Jean-Marc and I cover the following:
How pursuing an ESG objective will provide a significant advantage for all asset managers
The underlying factors that currently make up the perfect storm for ESG assets.
Why BlackRock decided to remove Coal companies from all their active funds from last year. And what they will be doing this year.
How the largest company in the world just added ESG to their CEOs KPI for the year.
And make sure to listen to the end, where Jean-Marc defines the important difference between companies that “Do Good” and others that “Do No Harm” and the implications for investing in either.
I hope you enjoy my discussion with Jean-Marc Routier