Episode 44: Responsible Investing and Stewardship - with Martin Jarzebowski, Federated Hermes

In this episode, CSB Director CB Bhattacharya is joined from Pittsburgh, PA by Martin Jarzebowski, Director of ESG & Responsible Investing at Federated Hermes, a global investment leader with $630 billion dollars in assets under management and nearly 2,000 employees in Pittsburgh, London, New York, Boston, and offices worldwide. Martin leads the integration of ESG, active engagement, and analytics across all asset classes and responsible investment solutions. He is a former portfolio manager and serves as an Adjunct Professor of Sustainable Finance at the University of Rochester Simon Business School, CFA Institute ESG Technical Committee, Sustainability Accounting Standards Board, Harvard Law School Institutional Investor Forum, and is a regular Forbes ESG Thought Leader. Federated Hermes has over 60 ESG subject-matter experts and is one of the world’s largest stewardship and engagement databases with 18 years of proprietary data. In the Episode Martin Jarzebowski and Prof. Bhattacharya discuss - Trends in sustainable investing and stewardship engagement that have emerged since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, - The various financial materiality matrixes used across a plethora of industries, or in short, the notion that ESG is not a one-size-fits-all approach, - The impact of the SEC’s recent climate-risk disclosure proposal discussion on carbon transparency in the United States, and more... Sign up to receive bi-weekly episodes right to your inbox: bit.ly/csbpodcastemail Submit your "Sustaining Sustainability" feedback and/or questions: bit.ly/csbpodcastfeedback This episode was researched, recorded, edited, and produced by Prof. CB Bhattacharya and CSB Team of the University of Pittsburgh Center for Sustainable Business: www.sustainablebusiness.pitt.edu Music: "Lively" by Dee Yan-Key From the Free Music Archive CC BY NC SA creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/legalcod