Animal Spirits Podcast: Talk Your Book: The Opposite of ESG

Mark Neuman, CIO and founder of Constrained Capital, joins Ben Carlson and Michael Batnick on the Animal Spirits Podcast to discuss stocks that have been orphaned by ESG investors, the process of constraining capital for these type of investments, and how politics surrounding these companies has an impact on investing. “The ESG orphans are the exclusions from the ESG bubble of the past decade. The result from this is misallocation of capital and malinvestment, which creates these opportunities and distortions in the markets,” says Neuman.

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The Constrained Capital ESG Orphans Index is a representation of companies that have business operations in one of the following industries: alcohol, fossil fuel energy, gaming, nuclear power, tobacco and weapons/firearms. The Index is calculated, administered, and published by Solactive AG, the Index’s administrator.

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