The trend of ESG investing has been going on for some time, and it won’t be going away any time soon. Big firms like BlackRock are now starting to focus on environment, social and corporate governance issues in their stock picking. Debbie McCoy of BlackRock spoke about their strategies for ESG investing at Sohn’s recent conference in San Francisco. Q3 2019 hedge fund letters, conferences and more A newer way of looking at things She explained that ESG investing goes beyond what most finance professionals learned in school. It’s a newer way of thinking about the companies you want to…
BlackRock At Sohn SF: How to choose ESG investments
Michelle deBoer-Jones
Michelle deBoer-Jones is editor-in-chief of Hedge Fund Alpha. She also writes comparative analyses of stocks for TipRanks and runs Providence Writing Services. Previously, she was a television news producer for eight years, producing the morning news programs for NBC affiliates in Evansville, Indiana and Huntsville, Alabama and spending a short time at the CBS affiliate in Huntsville.