Rob Gardner - Financial Wellness in a World Worth Living In

This week on Standard Deviations with Dr. Daniel Crosby, Dr. Crosby speaks with Rob Gardner. Rob is a prominent financial expert, entrepreneur and activist for making money a force for good. He has made it his life’s mission to utilize his influence and the organizations he’s involved with to elevate people and the planet alongside profits to create ‘financial wellbeing, in a world worth living in’. He is the Investment Director and an executive board member for St. James's Place Wealth Management where he is responsible for investing the wealth of 850,000 clients and over £150 billion and since he joined the firm SJP has taken an industry leading role in responsible investing to positively impact the global climate crisis. Rob is also the co-founder of Redington, one of the UK’s leading investment consultancies, and has worked closely with SJP’s Investment Committee for a number of years. He is also a Member of the World Economic Forum Retirement Council.

Tune in to hear:

- Why is ESG such an important part of Rob’s financial practice?

- How can we achieve financial wellness without merely paying lip service to things like environmentalism?

- How can the average client strike an ideal balance of the three attributes of ESG? 

- Rob grew up in Argentina during a time of extreme inflation. What did these formative years in this environment teach him about financial wellness?

- What practical steps can we take to reduce the wealth gap and ensure that less people are on the brink of a financial emergency?

- What is our extreme hesitancy to have meaningful money conversations when it plays such a central role in living a happy and stable life?

- What does Rob think the industry will look like 25 years from now?

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