Creating sustainable finance: Chris Loker at TEDxCapeTown

Chris Loker: Financial services consultant.
Idea worth spreading: Financial institutions should be in the background, enabling the real economy, not at the forefront as it is now. This transformation can only take place when individual savers and investors recognize their collective power and insist on greater accountability.
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[@sonjaglasklar7624]

It's so weird. This should actually be the normal. The environment and the society are the basis. Finance is simply a tool that is there to serve the society. Therefore it should be designed to automatically generate social justice and sustainability.
I think a shift is needed in order that the finance system compensates long term sustainable investment.

[@rashadal5545]

It's difficult to convince people to invest in something that has lower value return when our perceptions of value, whether social or environmental, differ. Maybe I want to invest in a different organization ... what then? Obviously if you're looking at lower value return, there needs to be more transparency on these causes.