Cary Krosinsky, Nick Robins, Stephen Viederman

Evolutions In Sustainable Investment

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Produktbeschreibung

Real-world guidance for investment professionals on delivering attractive risk-adjusted and opportunity-directed returns across asset classes and regions using a sustainability lens

Filled with interviews with leading practitioners, this book weaves a narrated web around best sustainable investment practices, guiding readers specifically on investing their assets and with specific sustainability trends in mind, such as increasing constraints on global resources.
Offers a clear road map to success by some of the most respected names in the field
Includes interviews with leading practitioners
Clearly explains how to get sustainable investing done

Evolutions of Sustainable Investing is a practitioner's book specifically laying out how this positive investment philosophy is being practiced, leaving the more negative approaches of socially responsible investing behind. This book is essential for any investor limited by old strategies that disregard a changing world of diminishing resources, an increasing global population as well as the market advantage now being experienced by the most efficient, innovative global companies.

Produktdetails

• Wiley Finance Series
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 512
• Erscheinungstermin: Januar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 887g
• ISBN-13: 9780470888490
• ISBN-10: 0470888490
• Artikelnr.: 33367872

Autorenporträt

CARY KROSINSKY is coeditor of a previous book on this subject--Sustainable Investing: the Art of Long-Term Performance, also with Nick Robins. Cary is a Senior Vice President and member of the management team for Trucost, which has become the recognized global leader in corporate environmental data and analysis, including advising the respected Newsweek Green Rankings. He also teaches sustainability and investing at Columbia University's Earth Institute and an MBA course on the same subject at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business, and is also a frequent speaker on the intersection of sustainability and ownership. He was a member of the expert group that helped create the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments xix About the Editor xxi About the Contributors xxiii
Introduction xxxv CHAPTER 1 The Sustainability Imperative 1 David A. Lubin
and Daniel C. Esty CHAPTER 2 Jupiter Ecology 11 Mark L. Trevitt CHAPTER 3 A
Predictor of Performance 27 Paul Hawken CHAPTER 4 Highwater Global 35
Alexis van Gelder, Dean Martucci, and Erika Kimball CHAPTER 5 Further
Context 47 Cary Krosinsky CHAPTER 6 Sustainable Asset Management 53 Thomas
O. Murtha and Ashley Hamilton CHAPTER 7 Domini and BP 81 Colm Fay CHAPTER 8
The Story of Calvert 91 Sam Brownell and Sara Herald CHAPTER 9 Winslow 107
Amrita Vijay Kumar CHAPTER 10 Portfolio 21 115 Ashley Hamilton CHAPTER 11
Northwest and Ethical Investments 123 Dana Krechowicz CHAPTER 12 Looking
for a Green Century: Passive-Indexed versus Active Portfolio Management 133
Fernando Viana CHAPTER 13 Pictet Water 145 Jenna Manheimer and Nancy Degnan
CHAPTER 14 Inflection Point Capital Management and Strategically Aware
Investing 159 Matthew J. Kiernan CHAPTER 15 Environmental Metrics 169 James
Salo CHAPTER 16 Crawford Chemicals: Carbon Risk Management in an Uncertain
Environment 181 Thomas J. Nist, Pavel Yakovlev, and Becky Weisberg CHAPTER
17 Using Statistical Tools 203 Sam Brownell CHAPTER 18 Barriers to
Sustainable Investing 211 Stephen Viederman CHAPTER 19 The Silent "S" in
ESG 217 Dan Viederman CHAPTER 20 Sustainable Investing: A Ten-Year
Perspective 221 Nancy Degnan CHAPTER 21 Bloomberg 235 Curtis Ravenel
CHAPTER 22 Aviva 241 Malte Griess-Nega and Nick Robins CHAPTER 23
Generation Investment Management 253 Malte Griess-Nega and Nick Robins
CHAPTER 24 Insight Investment: Reflections and Lessons Learned from
Integrating Sustainability 261 Rory Sullivan CHAPTER 25 The Unexpected Role
Model: Chinese Environmental and Energy Policy 277 J. Jason Mitchell
CHAPTER 26 Ethical Asia 301 Simon Powell CHAPTER 27 Mitigating ESG Risk in
Asian Portfolios 313 Lucy Carmody and Laura Dodge CHAPTER 28 Sustainable
Investing and Canada 323 Dana Krechowicz and Alex Wood CHAPTER 29 High-Risk
Areas, Resources, and Sustainability 329 N.A.J. Taylor CHAPTER 30
Sustainable Investing in Africa's Frontier Markets 345 Graham Sinclair and
Roselyne Yao CHAPTER 31 Evolution of ESG in India 359 Sumantra Sen CHAPTER
32 Indexes 365 Graham Sinclair CHAPTER 33 How Asset Owners Can Achieve a
Sustainable Investing Framework 383 Roger Urwin CHAPTER 34 On Performance
393 Bud Sturmak and Cary Krosinsky CHAPTER 35 Private Equity 401 Graham
Sinclair CHAPTER 36 Blue Wolf: Implications for Private Equity 417 Adam
Blumenthal and Michael Musuraca CHAPTER 37 New Business Models,
Measurement, and Methodologies 423 Howard Brown CHAPTER 38 Terminology and
Intention 429 Lloyd Kurtz CONCLUSION Cary Krosinsky 441 APPENDIX A Sample
Curriculum 447 APPENDIX B Investors 453 Index 455