The Hypocrisy of ESG Investing

In this episode, Carson Block sits down with Tariq Fancy, the former CIO of sustainable investing at Blackrock. As a big believer in capital markets, Tariq felt allocating capital to the problems of climate change could help solve one of the biggest problems on the planet. However, his experience in ESG was the opposite of solving problems.

Big Data Reveals Big Problems – Insider Selling

Dan Taylor is a tenured professor at The University of Pennsylvania Wharton School. He created the Wharton Forensic Analytics lab which studies financial misconduct in capital markets. Inside the lab, Dan uses big data to go across the universe of publicly traded companies to look for red flags of accounting fraud and insider trading.