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Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing : a balanced analysis of the theory and practice of a sustainable portfolio /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Academic Press,
2020.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover
- Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Investing
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- 1 Introduction
- Principles for responsible investing
- Sustainable development goals
- The scope of this book
- Chapter 2: ESG, SRI, and impact investing
- Chapter 3: Theories of the firm
- Chapter 4: Fiduciary duty in investment management
- Chapter 5: Overview of financial institutions
- Chapter 6: Financial markets: equities
- Chapter 7: Financial markets: bonds
- Chapter 8: Shareholder engagement
- Chapter 9: Defining and measuring ESG performance
- Chapter 10: ESG in managing institutional investor funds
- Chapter 11: ESG in managing college and university endowments
- Chapter 12: ESG in managing sovereign wealth and government sponsored funds
- Chapter 13: ESG in managing family foundations and family offices
- Chapter 14: Faith-based investing
- Chapter 15: ESG investing-organizations having direct impact
- Chapter 16: What's next for ESG investing
- 2 ESG, SRI, and impact investing
- Environmental, social, and governance investing
- Socially responsible investment
- Divestment: South Africa
- Divestment: sin stocks
- Impact investing
- The Rise Fund
- Mission investing
- United Nations principles for responsible investing
- United Nations sustainable development goals
- Financial returns versus social and environmental returns
- Global sustainable investment
- 3 Theory of the firm
- The social responsibility of business is to increase its profits
- Maximize shareholder welfare, not market value
- Maximizing welfare
- Shareholder rights
- Summary
- Appendix
- 4 Fiduciary duty in investment management
- Addressing the Agency Problem
- Fiduciary duty
- Fiduciary obligations
- "Prudent Man" rule
- Uniform Prudent Investor Act
- Uniform Prudent Management of Institutional Funds Act
- Freshfields Report
- Fiduciary II
- United Nations Principles for Responsible Investing
- Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
- Summary
- 5 Overview of financial institutions
- Information asymmetries, moral hazard, and adverse selection
- Commercial banks
- Credit unions
- Investment banks
- Trading and research
- Asset securitization
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Prime brokerage
- Central banks
- Conventional monetary tools
- Unconventional monetary policy
- Other central banks
- Shadow banking: other financial intermediaries
- Insurance companies
- Categories of insurance
- Prudential Financial Inc
- MetLife Inc
- Zurich Insurance Group
- Pension funds
- Largest pension funds
- CalPERS
- Florida State Board of Administration
- Asset managers
- Hedge funds
- Private equity
- 6 Financial markets: equities
- Risk, return, and diversification
- Capital asset pricing model
- Efficient market hypothesis
- Random walk
- Types of orders
- Equity trading venues
- Regulation
- Investing in equities