Unsustainable Truth: Richard Busellato & David Ko on climate change
With three decades of investment experience working with pensions and savings institutions, Dr David Ko (King’s College alumni 1982) and Richard Busellato talk about the ways in which we are all pushing the world beyond its limits. Our investments are draining the world of its resources just so we can hoard money for our individual futures – our retirement. If we are going to be sustainable, forget retiring – it is the ethical thing to do. If we can’t retire, what are we working for? If investing is unsustainable, should we save at all?
Dr David Ko and Richard Busellato are authors of a book on the sustainability issues of investments. After three decades in the industry, even as seasoned professionals they somewhat ashamedly admit to only recognizing recently the extent of the problems. We save to protect our own future, but the savings need to grow by so much that they destroy the future. The problem is our economy is not designed for a world with finite limits; an economic model for this needs to be centred on ethics and purpose. Having worked at renowned hedge funds such as LTCM and Millennium, and investment companies such as Henderson and Bank of America, they have recently left the industry so they may speak more freely.
WHEN: Tuesday 17 January 2023
5.30 PM wine reception
6.00 PM talk (keynote + Q&A)
WHERE: King's College, Cambridge
Chetwynd room for the drinks
Keynes Lecture Theatre for the talk