Sustainability Investing: Doing Good By Doing Well Over Time – VanEck – 8.4.21

Overview:
Title: Sustainability Investing: Doing Good By Doing Well Over Time
Date: Wednesday, August 4, 2021
Time: 1:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time
Duration: 1 hour

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Addressing the long-term needs of the environment is the critical imperative of our time. As the totality of this initiative comes clearer into focus, we believe that sustainable improvements will be fostered by companies that are able to provide innovative, viable solutions with quantifiable outcomes. For investors, at the intersection of ethical and financial goals lies the need to invest in companies capable of achieving impactful results through well-conceived, durable business models. In other words, improving the environment for the long-term requires identifying companies across industries that are able to consistently do good by doing well over time. In this webcast, Portfolio Managers Shawn Reynolds and Veronica Zhang will highlight this idea of “dual sustainability” which drives our investing approach. As interest in the space continues to accelerate, it can be overwhelming to understand exactly how the trends of today will shape the long-term investment rationale and growth viability of certain companies in the future. In this webcast, we’ll cover:

  • The current market forces, such as inflation and resource transition, that are driving growth opportunities in areas such as renewable energy, smart resource management, agriculture technology, recycling, water and advanced materials
  • An objective impact and engagement framework that alleviates some of the concerns and fallacies of existing scoring methodologies
  • An investment approach to marry environmental results with business objectives to achieve lasting improvements for future generations

Speakers:
Veronica Zhang Veronica Zhang Portfolio Manager VanEck

  • Analyst for the Global Hard Assets strategy; specializes in Industrials and Alternative Energy
  • Investment Management Team member since 2013
  • Prior to joining VanEck, worked in equity research at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, covering the machinery, E&C, and transportation sectors
  • Earlier career experience includes database consulting for G2 (branch of WPP), in the corporate finance division
  • BA, Economics and Statistics, Columbia University
Shawn Reynolds Shawn Reynolds Portfolio Manager VanEck

  • Portfolio Manager for the Natural Resources Equity strategy
  • Oversees the Hard Assets team; responsible for company analysis; specializes in energy companies
  • Investment Management Team member since 2005
  • Prior to joining VanEck, an energy analyst at Petrie Parkman & Co.; covered North American oil and gas exploration and production companies
  • Previously an energy equity research analyst at Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers (London, NY), and Credit Suisse First Boston (NY, London, Australia); covered North American, European, and global energy companies
  • Formerly an exploration geologist at Tenneco Oil Company
  • Vice Chairman of Kuwait Energy Company; former board member of several private Latin American oil and gas exploration and production companies
  • Trustee of the Hackensack Meridian Hospitals Corporation Board; member of the Hackensack Meridian Health Investment Committee; member of the Riverview Medical Center Foundation Board of Trustees; Former President of the Board of Trustees of the Rumson Country Day School
  • Media appearances include CNBC; quoted in The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and Bloomberg Businessweek, among others
  • MBA (Beta Gamma Sigma National Honor Society), Finance, Columbia Business School; MA (Phi Kappa Phi), Petroleum Geology, University of Texas, Austin; BS, Engineering, Cornell University
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