An Introduction to Green Investments
Do you contribute to an investment plan on your own or from your employer? Maybe you are saving money for retirement or for a child's future education? Most likely, the contributions fund the expansion of fossil fuel investments which threaten our climate conditions.
Join us for a conversation about different types of investments and the possibility of a future where your assets can meet your values while earning a reasonable financial return.
Panelists:
Louise Yeung is Chief Climate Officer in the office of the New York City Comptroller. Yeung is tasked with tracking the city’s progress in meeting climate commitments, driving climate action and investments in the private sector, and bringing a climate justice lens to the city’s budget. Previously, Yeung served as Director of Resiliency at the NYC Department of Transportation and Energy Vice President of Asset Management for the NYC Economic Development Corporation. She also led the Food Supply Chain Task Force to address food security as part of NYC’s COVID-19 emergency response. Yeung graduated Summa Cum Laude from George Washington University with a BA in International Affairs, and received a master’s degree in City Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
David Pinsky (he/him) is a Finance Campaigner with The Sunrise Project focused on moving asset managers like BlackRock, Vanguard, and Fidelity away from climate chaos and toward a just transition. He works with retail investors (FixMyFunds) and large clients (WorkforClimate) to advocate for climate safe investments. David has more than 15 years of experience leading environmental campaigns and corporate engagement. Before joining The Sunrise Project, David led campaigns with Greenpeace USA on a range of issues, including ending coal, advocating for sustainable seafood and human rights, and eliminating single-use plastic. David holds degrees in psychology from the University of North Carolina Wilmington and the University of Kentucky. He lives on Ohlone land in Oakland, CA.
Jackie Logan is Raise Green Chief Investment Officer. Jackie has 25+ years of experience across the capital markets – in both the startup and large money center bank worlds. At JP Morgan for over a decade, she covered a wide range of institutional investors on the fixed income trading floor. And at Goldman Sachs, for close to a decade she oversaw trading across markets for private wealth clients from a compliance perspective for both RIA and broker/dealer activities. In her last role at Goldman Sachs, while working with product teams developing esg investment strategies, she realized that we need significant private capital moving into direct climate solutions, and now. Ratings and rankings just did not have the consistent and granular data to effect the needed impact. During Climate Week NYC 2019 – a chance meeting with fellow co-founders very quickly turned into a new role once Jackie realized Raise Green offered a unique solution to this problem. Jackie is a New York City native, has a BA from Williams College in Chemistry, and graduated with Honors from The Wharton School with an MBA in Finance.
This program is educational and informative, and will not tell you how to invest your funds.
This program is co-sponsored by 350 Brooklyn and Climate Families NYC.
BPL’s Business & Career Center is generously supported by Dime Community Bank, Lead Funder of the PowerUP! Business Plan Competition, Dr. Beverly S. Jacobs, Ridgewood Savings Bank, and Reference Solutions.
