Sustainable Investing

Catalog description

This course provides students with a broad understanding of sustainable investing, including three generalized categories of sustainable investing, namely ESG Investing, Socially Responsible Investing, and Impact Investing. Students will explore how and why investors and fund managers might employ/offer each of these three categories of sustainable investing. This exploration includes the financial and impact considerations for each category of sustainable investing. Students will also learn how incorporating environmental, social, and governance criteria can improve returns and/or reduce risk. Additional topics covered include shareholder activism, religious values investing, and stakeholder value. Students will learn about sustainable investing through both top down (investor lens) and bottom up (company lens) approaches. This course provides students with hands on experience researching, analyzing, and developing investment recommendations, which will serve to improve their business writing, analytical skills, and technical competency in sustainable investing.