Whittaker: Impact investing requires tracking actual performance over stated policies
Martin Whittaker · Martin Whittaker – JUST Capital (First Meeting, EP.02) · Jun 24, 2019 · at 46:16
Martin Whittaker, CEO of JUST Capital, explains to Ted Seides why gathering reliable empirical data is the true technological frontier of impact investing.
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“It's all well and good for it to have a policy on gender pay equity. But how are you actually doing? You wouldn't invest in a company that had a policy to be profitable. You'd want to know what they're actually doing. So I don't see this as being any different.”
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