The ESG Investing: Setting Standards & Conducting Analysis course provides students with basic knowledge of traditional financial products with some fundamental concepts to help better define what ESG is, including the rationale behind its inception, and how it has developed. Through the series of video, webinar, and reading modules in this course, you’ll learn how to identify and describe the basic principles underpinning the “E”, “S” and “G” in ESG, as well as obtain a brief background of ESG’s origins and evolution. You should also acquire insights into certain global and domestic goals and frameworks that drive and support issuers’ ESG agendas for economic, financial, and ethical purposes, as well as learn how to examine and construct different investment strategies aligned with investment returns, such as negative/exclusionary screening and integration. You should also gain a clearer view of how businesses form their ESG strategies, as well as some of the risks they face, and how they may be mitigated.
This course is part of the ESG Investing: Financial Decisions in Flux Specialization
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Previous investment experience is helpful but not required.
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Describe how environmental, social and governance principals originated and how related practices have been evolving in the financial markets.
Identify global initiatives that helped drive, and continue to support, the framework for ESG investing.
Differentiate the risks a company may face when analyzing it for “E”, “S”, and “G” factors.
Provide details about certain business sector trends such as those in water and waste management, clean transportation, and energy.
Skills you will gain
- UN Sustainable Development Goals
- ESG investing strategy
- ESG integration
- ESG history
- ESG factor analysis
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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
ESG's Origins & Evolution
ESG Investing: Industry Insights – Gabelli Funds (Parts 1-3)
ESG Investing: Industry Insights – Gabelli Funds (Parts 4-6)
ESG Investing: Industry Insights – Gabelli Funds (Parts 7-9)
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- 3 stars11.53%
- 2 stars3.84%
TOP REVIEWS FROM ESG INVESTING: SETTING STANDARDS & CONDUCTING ANALYSIS
the course is comprehensive but the videos could be improved as they are all very static
Fantastic. You really cannot avoid to be lazy on the course and I have really enjoyed learning about the origins of ESG
A very comprehensive course that will be useful to me in the near future.
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