How ESG* analysts should think – Small and private companies get lower ESG score – How to deal with this? Small companies and/or private companies often get a lower ESG risk scoring, why is this? In this article, I am making abstraction from the fact that many small companies score well on ESG opportunity, particularly […]

I see some voices are claiming that the sustainability focus we now see in investing and in the society at large is the start of the fall of capitalism and shareholder value maximisation. This is based on the thought that shareholder value maximisation has historically emptied one natural resource after the other on earth or […]

How ESG* analysts should think – The Social Dilemma – Is profit driven AI human mind exploitation targeting mood alteration ethically acceptable? The starting point here is the Netflix film ”/social dilemma”: https://www.netflix.com/se-en/title/81254224. If you have not seen it, I recommend you to do so, but brace for hard landing. Particularly if you have kids […]

How ESG* analysts should think – The dilemma of the electrification of the world – Seabed mining To respect the Paris agreement, we are pushing electrification to another level in the world to replace fossil energy with renewable energy. That is the ”easiest” solution. Few seriously believe that reducing drastically the standards of life in […]