21st Century Investing, William Burckart
21st Century Investing, William Burckart
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21st Century Investing
Redirecting Financial Strategies to Drive Systems Change

Author: William Burckart, Steven Lydenberg

Narrator: Sean Pratt

Unabridged: 5 hr 20 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 04/13/2021


Synopsis

Two experienced and visionary authors show how institutions and individuals can go beyond conventional and sustainable investing to address complex problems such as income inequality and climate change on a deep, systemic level.

Our financial markets can no longer grapple adequately with the pressing challenges of our times-such as climate change, income inequality, diversity, and the health of our oceans.

Sustainable investment helps investors to manage environmental, social, and governance considerations in their portfolios, but this piecemeal approach stops short of addressing the larger systemic challenges that underlie them, thereby running the risk of missing the forest for the trees. Concerned about climate change, sustainable investors might invest in a portfolio of solar power companies. System-level investors would invest in a portfolio of solar and wind power, batteries, energy efficient and sustainable forest products, regenerative agriculture, and similar resources from companies that provide a holistic vision of what an alternative world could be.

William Burckart and Steve Lydenberg have pioneered this approach through their work at the Investment Integration Project. In this book they provide a guide for investors-both concerned individuals and financial professionals as well as investment advisors-explaining why this investment approach is critical today and how it can be put into practice.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Frank on April 19, 2021

I just finished listening to 21st Century Investing: Redirecting Financial Strategies to Drive Systems Change on Audible (and toggled back to the Kindle version as well). This is an important book that shows how some leading edge institutional investors, as well as financial advisors and family offic......more

Goodreads review by Ipshita on November 15, 2021

The concept of systems level thinking itself is big picture and impactful and decently described. However the book itself for a seasoned reader on this topic of ESG-impact investing was not transformational......more

Goodreads review by May on December 28, 2021

About System investments, reviewing this completely wont be just......more