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Sustainable investing: Is ESG more than a buzzword?

Sustainable investing has become increasingly popular; especially since the outbreak of Covid-19. Will this trend continue?

Date: 21 October 2021
Words: Tilmann Schaal, LGT
Reading time: 2 minutes

In the latest Big Picture video, our experts address the question of why investing according to ESG criteria is more than just a passing trend. They also shed light on the issue of greenwashing and explain whether sustainable investments mean investors have to sacrifice returns.

Business journalist Carolin Roth talks to Thomas Wille, Head of Strategy and Research, LGT Private Banking Europe, and Sabine Döbeli, CEO of Swiss Sustainable Finance.

Learn about LGT’s approach to investing according to environmental and social criteria.

Greenwashing is the term used to describe the deceiving habit of pretending that certain companies and political parties, but also financial products and their providers, are more sustainable than they actually are. For private investors in particular, it can be very difficult to understand...

In 1879, an ambitious son of a farmer from Connecticut was working as a journalist in Rhode Island when his editor gave him a dream assignment. The reporter would take a train to Leadville, then a silver mining boomtown in Colorado. On board would be a disparate band of men with dollar signs...

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