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Jim Coulter Explains The Difference Between ESG And Impact Investing: Delivering Alpha Conference

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Michelle deBoer-Jones
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Many market participants lump ESG (environmental, social and governance) in with impact investing, but Jim Coulter of TPG says they’re two different things. CNBC’s Andrew Ross Sorkin interviewed Coulter at the CNBC Delivering Alpha Conference on Sept. 29, and he explained the differences between ESG and impact investing.

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Sorkin described Coulter as “the E and the S and maybe the G” of ESG investing. However, Coulter said he focuses more on impact investing at TPG and described impact investing as “the extra credit of ESG.”

“ESG is doing whatever you do better,” Coulter said. “Impact investing is actually...

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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.