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Hosted by Bentley Kaplan, Gabriela de la Serna, Mike Disabato

Published by MSCI ESG Research LLC

4.9(365 ratings)
338 episodes
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<p>News and investment research brought to you weekly covering major market trends and new research insights. With topics ranging from climate impact on investment portfolios, corporate actions, trending investment topics, and emerging sustainability issues, hosts Mike Disabato and Bentley Kaplan of MSCI ESG Research walk through the latest news and research that is top of mind for the week.&nbsp;</p>

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Recent Episodes

Episode thumbnail for The Price of Not Knowing

September 18, 2026

The Price of Not Knowing

Host Mike Disabato interviews MSCI's Jasmina Buresch about why companies delay disclosing specific climate risks despite acknowledging their materiality.

Episode thumbnail for Riding Shotgun: Mega IPOs and Founder Control

September 11, 2026

Riding Shotgun: Mega IPOs and Founder Control

Gabriela de la Serna interviews Jonathan Ponder about how founder control in mega IPOs impacts company performance over a decade.

Episode thumbnail for Can AI Really Extract Emissions Data?

August 21, 2026

Can AI Really Extract Emissions Data?

Bentley Kaplan interviews Tanguy Sene about the risks and limitations of AI in accurately extracting and comparing emissions data between companies.

338 total episodes available with 66 transcripts

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Riding Shotgun: Mega IPOs and Founder Control

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[…] Here's John. Let's start with the plain vanilla version, because control skew isn't really a founder specific idea, even if it tends to show up most visibly with founders. At its core, control skew is any situation where shareholders voting power in a company is disconnected from their actual economic stake. Normally, when you own 10% of a company on paper, you'd also expect roughly 10% of the vote. Control skew is an expression of that link breaking. Someone owns a smaller slice of the economics but holds a much bigger share of the decision-making power. The most common mechanism enabling this is a multi-class share structure where the company issues more than one class of stock and where these classes hold different voting rights per share. […]
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<p>News and investment research brought to you weekly covering major market trends and new research insights. With topics ranging from climate impact on investment portfolios, corporate actions, trending investment topics, and emerging sustainability issues, hosts Mike Disabato and Bentley Kaplan of MSCI ESG Research walk through the latest news and research that is top of mind for the week.&nbsp;</p>
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