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‘Failing Conventionally: how the ESG gravy train has been derailed’

Posted by Barry Norris
10 Nov 2023

We all already know that investors are susceptible to herd-like behaviour: from the South Sea Bubble of 1720 to the “permanently high plateau” for stocks in 1929, and more recently the “dot com” mania of 1999 or of late bitcoin and “cryptocurrency”. These investment bubbles, which always seem easy to identify in hindsight, have always had their messianic talismans and price insensitive believers. 

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