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University of Pennsylvania

ESG Impact: Investor Perspective

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: Business Ethics
Status: Portfolio Risk
Course9 hours

Featured reviews

NN

5.0Reviewed Jul 10, 2024

Awesome course, very informative relevant and knowledge can be applied in my line of work

FG

5.0Reviewed Mar 3, 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

AD

5.0Reviewed Apr 22, 2023

Excellent course!- recommended for anyone who does not have financial background.

AS

5.0Reviewed Sep 12, 2024

Fantastic Prof! Would still love correct answers provided after the fact.

NK

5.0Reviewed 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?

AC

5.0Reviewed Sep 4, 2022

Very useful course. The material is recent and easy to analyze. I recommend this for anyone, even without a financial background.

NR

4.0Reviewed 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

XL

5.0Reviewed Apr 10, 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.

MB

5.0Reviewed Feb 19, 2023

Excellent content on ESG investing in publicly held companies

SS

5.0Reviewed Jan 31, 2023

A clear and concise overview of ESG investments management practices.

RA

4.0Reviewed Sep 2, 2023

I would have been great to know when there will be an update with all the current developments

MA

4.0Reviewed Jun 28, 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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