Sage interviews Professor Nancy Folbre about the evolution of care work in the U.S. Folbre is the Director of the Program on Gender and Care Work at the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a Senior Fellow of the Levy Economics Institute at Bard College.

This podcast was recorded at Sage’s “Perspectives on the Future” Conference, a two-day event in Austin, Texas, that featured diverse thought leaders on geopolitical events, investment strategy, risk management, retirement policy and issues, women and investing, and sustainable investing.

You can find Folbre’s presentation here.

In this podcast, Sage’s Andrew Poreda and Emma Smith discuss the balanced assessment they released examining the idea of nuclear power as an alternative energy provider. To read the assessment, click here.

Sage’s ESG Research Analyst Emma Smith helps financial advisors identify potential clients who may be interested in Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG) investing. For more information on identifying potential ESG clients, click here.

Sage Advisory’s Jessica McHugh talks with Anton Gorodniuk, the Lead Analyst at SASB – the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board, about the technology sector and some of the financially material sustainability issues identified by SASB.

Sage Advisory’s Vice President of Research and Portfolio Strategy Komson Silapachai talks with Taylor Reed, Consumer Goods Analyst at the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB), about financially material sustainability issues affecting the sector.

Sage Advisory’s ESG Analyst Emma Smith talks with Sonya Hetrick, Services Analyst at the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB), about financially material sustainability issues affecting the services industries, such as casinos and gaming, advertising and marketing, and hotels and lodging.

Sage’s Nick Erickson talks with David Parham, Director of Research Projects at the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board, about financially material factors affecting the energy and mining industries, and recent incidents that have impacted the financial health of companies in those industries.

To what extent are ETF providers that invest in “sustainable” companies engaged with those companies? Sage ESG Research Analyst Emma Smith discusses the results of Sage’s Environmental, Social, and Governance Stewardship Survey. Sage sent the survey to 20 ETF providers that invest in sustainable companies and evaluated each ETF provider’s relative stewardship policies and practices across five key areas.

Survey results can be found here.

Sage talks with the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board’s (SASB) Financials Analyst Anton Gorodniuk about financial materiality, how the reporting standards will impact credit ratings, and common misconceptions of SASB’s role in sustainable investing.

After six years of research and market input, the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) released today a complete set of 77 industry-specific sustainability accounting standards. In this podcast, Sage talks with Nicolai Lundy, Director of Education and Partnerships at SASB, about the standards, which assist companies in disclosing financially material, decision-useful sustainability information to investors.