Bhaskar Sastry, CFA
Bhaskar Sastry is an ESG Content Manager at Janus Henderson Investors, a position he has held since 2021. He is responsible for creating and managing content on the firm’s ESG approach. He joined the firm from State Street Global Advisors where he was an ESG content specialist from 2019. Before that, he was an investment writer at Legg Mason Global Asset Management from 2018. Before Legg Mason, he was a senior investment communications executive with abrdn from 2015 and an investment analyst with Friends life from 2011. Bhaskar began his career as an analyst in several contract roles with firms, including WestLB, Towers Watson and Amlin.
Bhaskar earned a BA degree (Hons) in financial and business economics from the University of Newcastle and an MSc in economics and development economics from the University of Nottingham. He has a postgraduate certificate in sustainable business from the University of Cambridge and holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation. He has 16 years of financial industry experience.
Articles Written
Governments must lead on climate action
An argument that the world is sleepwalking into Climageddon without government leadership on targeted subsidies and establishing a carbon price.
Deforestation: seeing the wood for the trees
Globally, the rate of deforestation is unprecedented, and the consequent impacts pose a multitude of threats that investors will need to evaluate.