In this course, you will analyze the importance of assessing stakeholder interest or salience in different ESG factors and industry variances. You will also evaluate the importance of ESG factors in your investment decisions, including how you can use them to create socially responsible portfolios with better-than-average returns. You will also examine the risks associated with ESG investing and how they can affect the corporation’s profitability.
Next, you will review the concepts of positive and negative screening and identify the ESG factors that cause investors to divest from or negatively screen certain assets. You will review ESG risks associated with climate, diversity, executive compensation, governance issues, and evaluate how corporate performance and stock prices correlate to ESG scores. You will also examine how ESG adoption could accelerate the growing trend of fossil fuel divestment, its minimal impact on returns, and what this means long term. Finally, you will analyze quantitative and qualitative measurements and explore different protocols, such as MSCI, to evaluate and provide ESG ratings that can affect stakeholder and investor interest.
By the end of this course, you will have explored how ESG investing has grown, assessed the variety of ways it has been integrated into the market, and analyzed the complex indexing and measurement techniques employed in the ESG space today.
Status: Portfolio Management
Portfolio Management
Status: Portfolio Risk
Portfolio Risk
Course·9 hours
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5.0
·Reviewed Apr 22, 2023
Excellent course!- recommended for anyone who does not have financial background.
5.0
·Reviewed Jan 31, 2023
A clear and concise overview of ESG investments management practices.
5.0
·Reviewed Jul 10, 2024
Awesome course, very informative relevant and knowledge can be applied in my line of work
4.0
·Reviewed Jun 18, 2022
Trasnscript was not entirely accurate to follow the caourse with, and caused some confusion.
5.0
·Reviewed Jun 15, 2022
Great course! Prof. Geczy has explained the concepts using many examples, making it interesting and easy.
5.0
·Reviewed May 24, 2023
A detailed explanation of ESG concepts and issues as a beginner. How it has been evolved and become the need of the hour for sustainability and investing with a purpose?
5.0
·Reviewed Sep 12, 2024
Fantastic Prof! Would still love correct answers provided after the fact.
5.0
·Reviewed Oct 1, 2024
Very complex topic that is not my area of expertise. Exactly for this reason I appreciated this insightful course that helped me to gain new perspectives.
5.0
·Reviewed Mar 5, 2022
This was a great refresher on how to use sustainability as a competetive advantage
5.0
·Reviewed Feb 19, 2023
Excellent content on ESG investing in publicly held companies
4.0
·Reviewed Oct 9, 2024
Very Investment heavy, but informative. I especially enjoyed the examples of real companies that have implemented ESG standards and have seen the overall success at their company
5.0
·Reviewed May 16, 2022
Provides an excellent overview on investor perspective, insights into differnet underlying parameters and rating methodology
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Hannah
1.0
·Reviewed Jun 29, 2022
I found this really tough to follow. It felt apart from the other courses in the specialization. Whilst some modules were hard to grasp because it felt as though a lot of terms and much of the context around a certain point had been omitted, other modues felt very basic and were frankly quite tedious. Unfortunately I didn't find the speaker very engaging like in other courses in the specialization. I also found it difficult to pass the quizzes because i didnt think they accurately reflected the learning content. I also find much of what was said hasn't sunk in becasue of this.
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Chad
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·Reviewed Aug 31, 2022
Power point slides are very unorganized. Week 3 appears to have an incorrect answer in the quiz that is giving multiple people problems.
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Fanny
5.0
·Reviewed Mar 4, 2022
The instructor was really good and inspiring and the slides were complementary to his talking. You could really tell that he had made an effort in compiling the course information
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Kristy
1.0
·Reviewed Oct 31, 2023
Very poorly explained, assumes you have a good deal of financial knowledge.
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Madalyn
4.0
·Reviewed Jun 29, 2022
Only reason I'm docking stars is because the transcription is poor & I rely heavily on written-word over audio to learn.
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Vijaykumar
5.0
·Reviewed Aug 30, 2022
This course gives indepth visibility on the ESG Components, how all practical aspects that we come across at organizaitons related to aspects of Envinronmental, Social & Governance risks & opportunties are consolidated under the broader umbrella called ESG. One will get a sense of direction as why organizations are trying to integrate ESG strategy and organizational goals keeping in mind the stakeholders and Shareholders in large.
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Suraj
5.0
·Reviewed Nov 15, 2022
ESG Impact: Investor Perspective, explores how responsible investment approaches are gaining traction and becoming increasingly mainstream. The course considers how institutional investors can engage with companies on key environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues.
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Pablo
5.0
·Reviewed Dec 1, 2023
You could screen learning by level of technical knowledge. Although the subjects are very well selected, I often felt Id like the professor to dig deeper into (1) Results from research studies (2) How the indices are constructed and the volumes and premiums they command
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Ramakrishna
5.0
·Reviewed Jul 11, 2024
Prof. Witold Henisz lucidly explains the aspects of ESG Risks and Opportunities with well structured presentations. Recommend to everyone who want to learn about risks related to ESG and how the same risks provide opportunities too.
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Sumesh
5.0
·Reviewed May 7, 2022
It has been a great learning. Carbon reduction on the planet is the most important task at hand. Initiating actions and measuring the impact is of real cosequence. Problems listed by Prof Geczy on impact measurement are significant.
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Lu
5.0
·Reviewed Jul 1, 2022
This course guides us to learn some knowledge, concepts or debates in the ESG areas from investing perspective, not just some financial related skills. It teaches me to think the advantages and disadvantages of ESG for business.
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Xueqian
5.0
·Reviewed Apr 11, 2022
This is a very insightful and well-structured course. It discusses the essential elements that investors need to know in the ESG area. The professor is super engaging and clear about his content.
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Nidhi
5.0
·Reviewed May 25, 2023
A detailed explanation of ESG concepts and issues as a beginner. How it has been evolved and become the need of the hour for sustainability and investing with a purpose?
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SZILVIA
5.0
·Reviewed Oct 2, 2024
Very complex topic that is not my area of expertise. Exactly for this reason I appreciated this insightful course that helped me to gain new perspectives.
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Adelina
5.0
·Reviewed Sep 5, 2022
Very useful course. The material is recent and easy to analyze. I recommend this for anyone, even without a financial background.
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Rahul
5.0
·Reviewed May 17, 2022
Provides an excellent overview on investor perspective, insights into differnet underlying parameters and rating methodology
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Poornima
5.0
·Reviewed Jun 16, 2022
Great course! Prof. Geczy has explained the concepts using many examples, making it interesting and easy.
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Thais
5.0
·Reviewed Sep 22, 2022
Excelent explanations, the professor is amazing. They also always provide the source of presented data.
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Hugo
5.0
·Reviewed Feb 13, 2022
Cogent, holistic yet detailed on the exciting points. It's a fantastic intro to the topic!
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Nkululeko
5.0
·Reviewed Jul 11, 2024
Awesome course, very informative relevant and knowledge can be applied in my line of work