What millennials and society demand from financial markets
Maria Mähl tells it like it is. Without consumers putting pressure on the financial market, the transition towards a more resilient and sustainable climate finance is going to take to long time. You can do your part today.
Investing sustainably has always been good for the heart. Now it has also been proven to be good for the wallet too.
Maria Mähl is the Director of Arabesque, an asset management and sustainability data analytics firm, with offices in London, Frankfurt and Singapore. The firm specializes is integrating environmental, social and governance (ESG) data with quantitative investment strategies. Does it sound technical? Maria say it all boils down to that sustainable investing is one of the biggest financial trends.
”We now know that it can actually be profitable for corporations to focus on the sustainability issues, as well as for people who want to invest their money smarter” she said during a short keynote speech at the #WeDontHaveTime climate conference on Earth Day, April 22.
Companies today are faced with increased pressure from individuals and investors who demand that their money is not being invested in fossil fuel or in companies that are not energy efficient or good at water management etc. And with more and more data available, partly due to Europe’s stricter regulations on what companies need to report on in terms of the environmental aspects of their businesses, it has become even easier for investors to get hold of such information.
This is why sustainable investing is one of the biggest financial trends of the past few decades. We have a 12–15 per cent growth on an annual basis in Europe, and now Asia and the US is also waking up. -Maria Mähl
What this all boils down to is that now you as an individual can also drive change in this area. It is up to us to put pressure on investment companies and pension funds and direct our money to drive change in this world. -Maria Mähl
Written by: Markus Lutteman
Facts about Maria Mähl
Maria Mähl is Director at Arabesque. Her field of expertise is the intersection of sustainable finance and corporate sustainability, and her current focus at Arabesque is in business development for North America and the Nordic Region.
Maria Mähl attended Humboldt University Berlin, Berlin Institute of Technology, and Uppsala University in Sweden and holds a B.Sc. in Political Science and a M.Sc. in Business and Economics.
She has formerly been a Senior Manager at the Clinton Global Initiative, strategy consultant at Cap Gemini Consulting. She has worked also with Program Development at the United Nations and supply chain management at Volvo
Web site: http://www.arabesque.com
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