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Episode 441: V-Square's Mamadou-Abou Sarr Triple Jumps to the Corner Office

Mamadou-Abou Sarr participated in a webinar where representatives from the Nathan Cummings Foundation and MSCI shared their perspectives and insights.

Although the E of ESG has been centered on climate so far, we must remember that environmental issues also include water management, waste and pollution, and natural capital or biodiversity.

Conversations about people, planet and profit-for-purpose in a complex world, interviewed by Rachel Alembakis Founder and Managing Director of FS Sustainability.

V-Square won the award for Best Specialist ESG ETF and was the runner up for the Most Innovative ESG ETF among many respected competitors.

With over 1,200 ESG and sustainable ETFs globally, the overlap of investment approaches, ESG screens and index compositions makes it hard for investors to distinguish between managers.

With large managers changing their rhetoric about ESG and removing themselves from certain organizations it opens the door to specialized managers like V-Square

V-Square won the 2023 ESG Investing Award for Best Specialist ESG ETF Provider and was a runner-up for the Most Innovative ESG ETF at the ESG Investing Awards

Welcome 2023! Another year like no other just passed, a year in which the markets have experienced their worst year since 2008 and the Great Recession.

On the topic of materiality, V-Square's Co-Founder Habib Moudachirou warns that lower quality materiality assessment can lead to 'greenwishing'.

Effective ESG investing requires materiality to drive financial performance and, intentionality to mitigate greenwashing.

Sustainable investment: "The train has already left, and we won't stop it". Responsible investment products took off in the United States during the pandemic, says Mamadou-Abou Sarr.

V-SQUARE announces launch of V-Square MSCI Global Equity ESG Materiality and Carbon Transition Indexed Strategy for Australian Asset Owners

NYSE's Judy Shaw sits down with V-Square Quantitative Management's Co-Founder and President Mamadou-Abou Sarr for ETF Leaders, powered by the New York Stock Exchange, at Exchange: An ETF Experience 2022.

Mamadou-Abou Sarr, Co-Founder and President shares his vision and passions.

V-Square's vision brought to life by co-founders Mamadou-Abou Sarr (President) and Habib Moudachirou (Chief Investment Officer).

The city of Chicago treasurer and our Reset Sustainability contributor to understand more about the Securities and Exchange Commission’s climate proposal and the Chicago city council bans from investing city finances into fossil fuel companies.

In a world where non-fungible tokens (NFT) allow investors to buy a fraction of a digital art piece, and investors are bidding on their slice of the ‘metaverse’, why has it proved so hard to develop a global carbon market?

Sasha Chasen discusses V-Square's approach to ESG investing and top trends for 2022 with Mamadou-Abou Sarr, co-Founder and President.

2021 came and went as fast as 2020. As we look forward through 2022, we are thrilled to see the industry recognize the opportunities ahead and take on the many complex challenges that come.

Douglas Yones - Head of Exchange Traded Products at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) interviews Mamadou-Abou Sarr, Co-founder and President of V-Square to discuss VDNI – The V-Shares US Leadership Diversity ETF.

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Today we announced the launch of our inaugural Climate Pulse newsletter, a bi-monthly bulletin covering climate change related risks and opportunities. The format of Climate Pulse will allow us to approach climate change through various lenses.

Panel: The Rush to Decarbonise: Investment Challenges and Opportunities. On 6-9 December, Neudata is presenting its biggest quarterly event yet — Data Insights & Scouting Summit 2021.

Keynote speaker: Rt. Hon. Gordon Brown

Article by V-Square: A Holistic Pathway Towards a Low-Carbon Future (page 44)

Launching an asset management firm is not for the faint-hearted and particularly if you try starting a firm in the middle of a global pandemic.

The ranking is a symbiotic combination of Brand, Firm, and Product awareness.

Please join us for this informative virtual event featuring our CIO, Habib Moudachirou, FRM, CIFD. He will give an overview of sustainability investing.

We are delighted to invite you to our presentation at The Council of Institutional Investors (CII) 2021 Virtual Fall Conference on the 22nd September at 5pm.

Please join us at The Great Repricing: Financial Advice in the Age of Climate Change event organized by Gitterman Wealth Management, LLC and FINTECH.TV from September 21-24.

We are honored to be a supporter of the 2021 Western Amateur Championship and the Evans Scholars Foundation as the tournament's return to its historic roots at Glen View Club! All the best to all the golfers from all over the world!

"I wanted to build an investment firm that has the power to understand quantitative data but also has the ESG expertise to decipher, harmonise and standardise this data leading to better informed investment decisions"

V-Square Quantitative Management LLC is pleased to announce and welcome Anita Woodhouse as Chief Compliance Officer (CCO)

Habib Moudachirou, FRM, V-Square’s CIO, gives his investment management perspective on the ESG responsibility, risk, and opportunity. It’s tempting to simplify ESG with a singular rating.

Mamadou-Abou Sarr, President & CEO, V-Square Quantitative Management, discusses his investment platform, which is designed to deliver customized, high-impact ESG solutions.

This webinar will explore the scientific ground for net zero emissions, the levers to getting to net zero and how investors can align their portfolios.

Mamadou-Abou Sarr has first-hand experience of quantitative finance and ESG investing. He believes his new investment firm holds the answer to bringing both approaches together.

Governments across the world are increasingly responding to the climate crisis by adopting policies and market mechanisms to help reduce emissions, writes Mamadou-Abou Sarr

V-Square Quantitative Management delivers ESG-Aligned Market Beta and Customized solutions, proprietary ESG strategies, as well as beta and smart beta strategies, which combines passive non-ESG investing with active ownership.

Join us and more than 500 professionals online for two days of inspiring sessions and unique networking opportunities. GreenFin 21 - April 13-14, 2021

Companies diversify their outputs to gain a strategic edge, why not the inputs? Diversity, when implemented well, can be rewarding, just like portfolio diversification can be.

Feature in Emerging Manager Monthly, the February 2021 issue. The sustainability firm was launched in March 2020 with backing from Valor Management.

As we embrace the new year following a challenging 2020, the theme of "Building Back Better" remains top of mind.

Mamadou-Abou Sarr has been appointed to the board of directors of US SIF: The Forum for Sustainable and Responsible Investment.

As we closed the book of the past calendar year, committing to New Year’s resolutions finds its roots in religious beliefs and traditions.

Habib Moudachirou & Alejandra Stalapolsky - Leadership series. From accidental banker to intentional sustainable investor, 20 years in 30 minutes.

To the question, why did you launch an investment firm with a focus on sustainability in the middle of a pandemic? My answer is because I wanted to "LEED" in a different way.

Quantitative approaches provide speed, scalability, and cost savings, which can help process the deluge of ESG data, says Habib Moudachirou

Mamadou-Abou Sarr & Monique Thanos, CFA

V-Square joins the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change as a program sponsor with the goal to advance science-based financial decision-making.

With over $40 trillion of global sustainable assets around the world, sustainable investing has become one of the fastest-growing segments in the asset management industry.