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The Financial Ecosystem (eBook, PDF)

The Role of Finance in Achieving Sustainability

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Long term asset owners and managers, while seeking high risk-adjusted returns and efficiently allocating scarce financial capital to the highest value economic activities, have the essential and formidable role of ensuring the sustainability of return. But generally accepted financial accounting methods are ill-equipped to provide clear signals of the risks and opportunities created by scarce natural and human capital. Hence many investment managers in global financial markets, while performing due diligence on portfolio companies, examine metrics of non-financial performance, especially envir...

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Satyajit Bose is Associate Professor of Practice at Columbia University, where he teaches sustainable investing, cost benefit analysis and mathematics and serves as Associate Director of the Program in Sustainability Management. Satyajit is also Co-Chair of the University Seminar in Sustainable Finance, a forum for faculty and finance practitioners to discuss and research methods to use the financial system, with the help of technology, innovative design and disruptive change, to mobilize capital for sustainable development and widespread beneficial impact. Satyajit was previously the Faculty Director of the joint Earth Institute-RFK Compass Education Program which trained institutional investors how to incorporate environment, social, human rights as well as corporate governance issues as integral elements of risk mitigation and return optimization.

Guo Dong is Associate Research Scholar and Associate Director of the Research Program on Sustainability Policy and Management at Columbia University's Earth Institute. Dr. Guo teaches courses on Microeconomics and Quantitative Methods for masters students in Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs. Dr. Guo's expertise lies in impact and evaluation methods and his research interests include sustainability metrics, sustainable development, environmental policy and Chinese education.

Anne Simpson is Director of Board Governance and Strategy at the California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS), where she led the development of the fund's sustainable investment strategy, and previously headed the corporate governance program. She is a member of about the SEC's Investor Advisory Committee, and the Leadership Council of the RFK Center for Justice and Human Rights. She serves on the Senior Advisory Board at the Center for Responsible Business, in the Haas School, Berkeley, California.

Simpson writes in a personal capacity and the opinions expressed are the author's own. They do not necessarily reflect the views of her current employer, CalPERS.