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# Hot Reads: Why This Billionaire Is Worried About ESG

 

 

Plus, why have FAANG stocks dominated?



 

 

 

 

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[**Why This Billionaire Is Worried About Green Investing**](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/27/business/dealbook/schwarzman-energy-crunch.html) (New York Times)

Blackstone’s Steve Schwarzman argues ESG is making it too hard to lend to drillers amid an energy crunch.

[**Why Have FAANG Stocks Been So Dominant?**](https://www.evidenceinvestor.com/why-have-the-faang-stocks-been-so-dominant/) (Evidence-Based Investor)

The key factor may be rock-bottom interest rates.

[**The Senior Investment Role Increasingly Dominated By Women**](https://www.institutionalinvestor.com/article/b1v5vt398fbnpp/The-Senior-Investment-Role-That-s-Dominated-by-Women) (Institutional Investor)

About 45% of sustainability officers in global companies are female, despite women making up about 20% of all management roles.

[**China Could Build New Coal Plants Overseas Even After Xi Pledge**](https://finance.yahoo.com/news/china-could-build-coal-plants-073719931.html) (Yahoo Finance)

It’s unclear whether Xi Jinping will follow through on his climate plans as world leaders prepare to gather for a critical UN climate conference in Glasgow next week.

[**Economists Are Remarkably Bad At Forecasting Short Term Interest Rates**](https://econbrowser.com/archives/2021/10/economists-are-remarkably-bad-at-forecasting-short-term-interest-rates) (Econbrowser)

Mean reversion to the max.

[**Retirement Advisors Looking Away From S&amp;P 500**](https://www.fa-mag.com/news/retirement-advisors-look-away-from-the-s-p-64103.html) (Financial Advisor)

Today’s zero-interest rate world is forcing advisors and their clients to attempt a high-wire act.

[**Risking Fast &amp; Slow**](https://ofdollarsanddata.com/risking-fast-and-slow/) (Of Dollars &amp; Data)

One is immediate, and the other is the accumulation of bad decisions over a long time.



 

 

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