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Author Hill, John, author

Title Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing : a balanced analysis of the theory and practice of a sustainable portfolio / John Hill
Published London : Academic Press, 2020

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Description 1 online resource
Contents 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed April 3, 2020)
Subject Investments -- Social aspects
Portfolio management.
Social responsibility of business.
Investments -- Social aspects
Portfolio management
Social responsibility of business
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0128186933
9780128186930