
Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Investing
A Balanced Analysis of the Theory and Practice of a Sustainable Portfolio
Description
Key Features
- Provides a dispassionate examination of ESG investing
- Presents the historical arguments for maximizing returns and competing theories to support an ESG approach
- Reviews case studies of empirical evidence about relative returns of both traditional and ESG investment approaches
Readership
Upper-division undergraduates through professionals working in quantitative economics, portfolio management, and economic sustainability
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Investing
2. Socially Responsible Investing, Impact Investing, Religious Values Investing: Defining and Contrasting the Alternative Investing Styles
3. ESG at a Firm Level: Theories of the Firm
4. Fiduciaries: Making Investment Decisions for Beneficiaries
5. Overview of Financial Markets
6. Financial Markets: Equities
7. Financial Markets: Bonds
8. Shareholder Activism
9. Defining and Measuring ESG Performance
10. ESG in Managing Institutional Investor Funds
11. ESG in Managing University Endowments
12. ESG in Managing Sovereign Wealth and Government Sponsored Funds
13. ESG in Managing Family Offices
14. ESG in Religious Values Investing
15. ESG in Impact Investing
16. Conclusions and Outlook for the Future
Product details
- No. of pages: 370
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2020
- Published: January 30, 2020
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128186923
- eBook ISBN: 9780128186930
About the Author
John Hill
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