AIG Chairman Win Neuger on Clean Technology

21:48 | Rio Pesino | Feb 15th, 2007 9:10pm |

In this keynote address at the Cleantech Venture Forum in New York, AIG Global Investment Group Chairman Win Neuger talks about the importance of Cleantech and clean technology.

Transcript:

Guest: Win J. Neuger - AIG Global Investment Group

Announcer
It is my honor and privilege to introduce to you Win Neuger of AIG Global Investment Group.

Win J. Neuger - AIG Global Investment Group
Thank you, Bob and Good Morning to all of you. At this conference you’re going to hear from a lot of speakers who know much more about Cleantech than I do. In fact in the two sessions that we’ve already had, you’ve learned more about Cleantech then I know, but what I am going to try to do is put some context around Cleantech in an over all investment portfolio and to talk about social responsible investing as an integral part of any investment decision. I would promise that no investment should be made without taking into consideration, social responsible issues. Why is that? There are really three primary reasons.

The first is risk. Socially irresponsible companies are bad businesses and bad businesses are high risk businesses. Secondly, as we’ve talked about already today, there are huge opportunities in ...