Trade Offs
Welcome to Trade Offs, a podcast series from Fidelity International's Fidelity Answers channel about the complex choices business leaders face to make their companies fit for a more sustainable future. Chief executives talk to Ned Salter, Global Head of Investment Research, about the inevitable trade offs they face when deciding how to remain both profitable to shareholders and responsible to all stakeholders. Each interview is accompanied by an analysis from Fidelity's investment team to provide broader context and investment implications. How are these trade offs being addressed by the people in power? What do their decisions mean for the sectors in question? And why should investors be thinking about them? Subscribe and listen to find out.
Episodes
Bunge is one of the world's biggest agriculture commodity businesses. Linking farmers with customers is a complex job. But doing it sustainably? Bunge's CEO Greg Heckman explains how he's approaching that challenge, and the the choices he's faced as chief executive, in his interview with Ned Salter, Global Head of Investment Research.
Hear about the investment implications of that interview in this episode, recorded in November 20...
From farmers to customers, agriculture commodities powerhouse Bunge works with thousands of stakeholders along vast value chains. Its scale means influence - so how is it responding to calls for greater sustainability in the crops it distributes? How is it managing the cost of increased ESG oversight?
In this final episode of the series, recorded in October 2022, Ned Salter, Global Head of Investment Research, talks to Bunge Chief...
Keeping profits, social responsibility, and public relations on an even keel is no mean feat when you're a government contractor. UK services company Serco employs tens of thousands across the world in areas as diverse as defence, justice, and healthcare.
Rupert Soames joined Serco as chief executive in 2014 and completed his tenure at the end of 2022. In this straight-talking interview, Fidelity International's Global Head of In...
Managing and looking after people is core to a government services company like Serco. And the risk management that goes with such work demands a very different approach.
In this episode of Trade Offs Fidelity's investment team use highlights from the interview with Serco's former Chief Executive Rupert Soames to illustrate how investors should be considering the 'S' of ESG and why its importance is only set to rise.
Ned Salter,...
Lorenzo Simonellis is chief executive of one of the world's biggest oilfield services and energy technology companies, Baker Hughes. It supports traditional exploration and extraction while also developing the latest energy equipment. As such, it stands in both the 'old' and 'new' spheres of the energy sector.
Mr Simonelli talks to Fidelity International's Global Head of Investment Research Ned Salter about the pros and cons of na...
What can investors learn from the trade offs an energy CEO is facing and the choices he's making? Fidelity's experts go over the highlights from the interview with Baker Hughes Chief Executive Lorenzo Simonelli, providing context and investment implications.
Ned Salter, Global Head of Investment Research, is joined by Analyst and Portfolio Manager Paul Gooden and Portfolio Manager Rosanna Burcheri.
Feeding 8 billion people with limited arable land is one of the modern world's most pressing headaches. Add to that a growing concern over the impact intensified farming practices can have on local ecosystems and biodiversity and you get a sense of the challenges facing a company like Bayer.
Founded in the mid-19th century, Bayer is one of Germany's oldest companies. Originally a pure pharmaceuticals manufacturer it diversified in...
In this episode Fidelity's investment team take a closer look at some of the highlights from the interview with Bayer's chief executive Werner Baumann.
Ned Salter, Global Head of Investment Research, is joined by Equity Research Analyst Panpan Xiao and Portfolio Manager Dmitry Solomakhin.
Listen to the whole interview here.
Watch video clips and read bonus material here.
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As chief executive of one of the world's largest financial institutions for more than a decade Brian Moynihan has led Bank of America through some tumultuous times. The shift from shareholder to stakeholder capitalism - accelerated by the Great Financial Crisis, heightening environmental challenges, and a global pandemic - has demanded careful stewardship, and all against a backdrop of increasing political upheaval.
He talks to F...
In this episode Fidelity's investment team take a closer look at some of the highlights from the interview with Bank of America's chief executive Brian Moynihan.
Ned Salter, Global Head of Investment Research, is joined by Senior Cross Asset Financials Analyst Lee Sotos and Portfolio Manager Rosanna Burcheri.
Listen to the whole interview here.
Watch video clips and read bonus material here.
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