Salim Ramji
The Architect
Structured and legacy-driven; builds the systems and institutions that last.
Salim Ramji reads as The Architect because he builds frameworks before he takes positions. His reframing of ESG as structural investment risk rather than ideology roots long-term thinking in the mechanical reality of index ownership, a construct built to outlast political cycles.
“Yeah, I think the ETF has now been around for just over 30 years, and ICER has been around for just over 20 years. And there now are several thousand ETFs. And I think that there is, you know, it's time that there was a more consistent way of naming and naming conventions around what appropriately should and shouldn't be called an ETF.”
“Terms of the trade offs that they're making. And for index investors, or the area that I'm responsible for, what we set out to do was to really increase access through launching the breadth of product offerings in ESG investing so that investors who wanted to be able to invest through an ESG lens could do so with ETFs or with index funds…”
“I was reading a little bit earlier on what I'd call a bunch of disaster and despair books. My wife thankfully talked me out of it because there's a whole genre about like the Twilight of Democracy is one. It's actually a really good book. But I've now moved to reading a biography of Wellington, which looks to be very good.”
“He came up to me and he said, I heard you turned us down. I said, yes. And then he asked me why I was such an idiot. He put it in slightly more colorful terms than that. But then he sat me down and explained to me, he answered his own question for about an hour and explained to me why I was such an idiot.”
Masters in Business: “Salim Ramji on ESG Investing (Podcast)”
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