Amber Fairbanks, a portfolio manager at Mirova, a division of Natixis, recently talked to Clarice Avery, a Natixis investment strategist on Asset TV, about potential long-term investment opportunity in the ESG space.
She described ESG as a way in which investors can benefit from long-term secular trends rather than trying to time the effects of cyclical events such as the Fed’s tightenings and loosenings. The world must undergo certain “transitions,” she said. It must, for example, address issues surrounding climate change. Thus, it makes sense for a portfolio to include solution providers for those issues