Interview: Opportunities and Challenges of ESG Investing with Laura Starks

Jan. 09, 2023

What are the considerations regarding environment, social and governance (ESG) investing? How do investors’ financial risk and return considerations (i.e., ESG value) stack up against their nonpecuniary preferences (i.e., ESG values)? Watch our interview with McCombs Business School professor and the Skandia Award 2022 winner, Laura T. Starks.

“Examining the ESG risks allows you to avoid some exposures that in the long-term can hurt you, and this is particularly the case with climate change,” says Laura.

Watch the full interview here.

Opportunities and Challenges of ESG Investing with Laura Starks

Laura T. Starks, Ph.D., is the George Kozmetsky Centennial Distinguished University Chair and Professor of Finance at the McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin. Her current research focuses on ESG issues, including climate risk and board diversity, as well as molecular genetics and financial decisions. Laura is the president of the American Finance Association and has served on mutual funds’ boards of directors, pension fund advisory committees, the Board of Governors of the Investment Company Institute, and advisory committees for the Norwegian Government Pension Fund.