William Cox
Dr William Cox is CEO of Yieldrive AG, a Fintech in Switzerland specializing in calculating ESG in Dollars & Cents. Cox has spent 20 years focusing on the financial impacts of ESG on companies. He received his PhD from the London School of Economics, a Postgraduate Diploma in Finance from Oxford and his MA, BA from Boston University.
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Why so many ESG reporting standards miss the point
Investors need less data, more focus
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Which social numbers really matter to investors?
Blue-chip companies spend big bucks on social programs. Apple, for example, recently increased its budget for its diversity program alone from $100 mn to $200 mn, while Mercedes Group spent €97 mn ($104 mn) on training in 2023, up from €93 mn the year before. The areas normally included under the S pillar of ESG are […]
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Which environmental numbers really matter to investors?
Recently, the head of ESG at a blue-chip asset manager that is paying more than $200,000 annually for ESG data told me: ‘Once we get this ton of data from a major data provider, our work just begins. We have to make some financial sense of it.’ His remark points to a fundamental problem with […]
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