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Trade Offs

By: Fidelity International
  • Summary

  • 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.

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Episodes
  • Trade Offs | Bunge: The Analysis
    Feb 21 2023

    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 2022, where Ned is joined by Senior Industry Analyst James Richards and Global Head of Fixed Income Research Gita Bal.

    Listen to the full interview here.

    Read and watch more on this interview here.

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    40 mins
  • Trade Offs | Bunge: The Interview
    Feb 21 2023

    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 Executive Greg Heckman about the choices and trade offs he's been making since taking the helm in 2019.

    Listen to the Trade Offs Analysis for the investment implications of this interview with Fidelity's experts.

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    30 mins
  • Trade Offs | Serco: The Interview
    Feb 14 2023

    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 Investment Research Ned Salter hears about his ESG lessons and in particular the social component: could Serco pay their staff more? Yes, but they'd lose business. Should they carry out controversial government policy? Yes, if it's the mandate of a democratically elected government. Is ESG investing a good thing? Not in its more zealous forms, no.

    Hear him explain these answers in this episode, and why he sees public scrutiny as an essential part of the job, and then listen to Fidelity's investment team explain the significance of what's been said here.

    This interview was recorded in July 2022.

    Watch video clips and read bonus material from the interview here.

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    31 mins

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