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Sustainable, a finance-industry veteran offers an insider's look at the promises, prospects, and perils of ESG investing. Proposing practical and actionable solutions to social and environmental problems, Terrence Keeley provides an incisive vision of the roles business and finance play in building a flourishing society.
List of contents
Foreword
Introduction
Part 1: The Promise . . .
1. The Stakes
2. Stakeholders Versus Shareholders
3. Activists, Their Arguments—and a Little Engine That Could
4. C-Suite Insurrectionists
5. What if +1°C = −$100 trillion?
6. What’s the United Nations Got to Do with It?
7. Materiality
8. A Few Words About Indices
Part 2: The Perils . . .
9. Values Versus Valuations
10. Hardwiring Corporate Goodness
11. Inside the ESG Arms Race
12. Crowded Trades
13. Let’s Speak Privately
14. Fight or Flee?
Part 3: Solutions
15. Civics Lessons
16. Impact Investing at Scale
17. The 1.6 Percent “Solution”
Conclusion (or How to Avert Our Failed Future)
Acknowledgments
Appendix: Exemplars of Hope
Notes
Index
About the author
Terrence Keeley has been an adviser to the world’s largest sovereign wealth funds, national pension plans, endowments, foundations, and asset managers for more than three decades as a senior client officer at BlackRock and UBS Investment Bank. In 2021, he was named a leading global “Knowledge Broker” by Chief Investment Officer.
Summary
In Sustainable, a finance-industry veteran offers an insider’s look at the promises, prospects, and perils of ESG investing. Proposing practical and actionable solutions to social and environmental problems, Terrence Keeley provides an incisive vision of the roles business and finance play in building a flourishing society.
