Sustainability and ESG are mainstreaming. Financial sector actors such as pension funds and asset managers have already for a decade been active in making substantial efforts to incorporate ESG in their investment decision making to obtain better return-risk ratio for their investments. Banks and insurance companies also now take action, catalysed by forthcoming regulation in the EU and increased awareness of the impacts of climate risks for their portfolio and business.
Graduates with an understanding of what sustainability and ESG mean in the financial sector context is a demand from the financial sector employers. This course responds to this need and introduces, by using academic and practitioner literature, the following topics to students: definitions of ESG and different investment styles; institutional investors; drivers of ESG (including values, profit, and drivers relating to the operating environment (incl. regulation)); development and implementation of ESG in organisations.
- Teacher: Riikka Sievänen
- Teacher: Emilia Vähämaa