Join the PERK team and Treasurer Marlo Oaks for the next Liberty Series- Liberty and Finance on November 3rd in Newbury Park, Ca. Treasurer Oaks will be discussing ESG, Environmental, Social, and Governance. Marlo Oaks was appointed as Utah’s 26th State Treasurer in 2021 and was on the ballot last November to finish out his predecessor’s term. Treasurer Oaks spent most of his career in money management and is one of two state treasurers with institutional investment management experience. He has appeared on national programs including Fox and Friends and Tucker Carlson and written articles for The Wall Street Journal, Dailywire, and Fox News. Treasurer Oaks graduated with a degree in economics from BYU and an MBA from UCLA Anderson.
You may not realize it but your life is already feeling the effects of ESG. Have you wondered how Bud Lite and Target could misjudge their customer base so badly that they lose billions of dollars in value? Why are gas prices so high? Why are companies doing things that don’t seem to make sense? Why are celebrities talking about eating bugs? ESG stands for environmental, social, and governance. Instead of meeting market demand, companies are serving a different agenda, one that most people don’t recognize. ESG is a set of objectives companies are being told to implement. These seem to fit within our market-based economic system. However, ESG will ultimately displace it. Find out what ESG is, why it is not compatible with our free markets, who is pushing it, how they push it, and what can be done to stop it.