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The Responsible Investor is a practical introductory guide for private as well as institutional investors and financiers interested in environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues.
List of contents
Preface, Aknowledgements, List of abbreviations, Introduction, 1. What is Responsible Investment? 2. Responsible Investment is mainstream 3. Drivers of Responsible Investment 4. Becoming a Responsible Investor 5. Materiality and megatrends 6. Responsible Investment approaches 7. Responsible Investment across different asset classes 8. ESG data 9. ESG ratings 10. Assessing the responsibility of asset managers and funds 11. Responsible Investment reporting. Epilogue, Appendix, Index
About the author
Anna Hyrske is the Principal Responsible Investment Specialist at The Bank of Finland. She has over 20 years of finance industry experience as a credit analyst, portfolio manager, ESG specialist and Head of Asian Operations (Hong Kong). Before the Finnish central bank she worked at Ilmarinen, a multi-asset pension insurance company.
Magdalena Lönnroth is the Head of Responsible Investment at the Church Pension Fund. Magdalena has been involved in developing Responsible Investment strategies and practices across a broad range of asset classes since 2006. She was a Founder of Finsif, Finland’s Sustainable Investment Forum, in 2010.
Antti Savilaakso is Head of Research at Impact Cubed in London. He has worked with Responsible Investments in the asset management and advisory industry for over 15 years and has been active in different advisory tasks internationally. Antti was a Board Member of Finsif during 2011–2015 and has been an Investor Member of the GRI stakeholder council since 2014.
Riikka Sievänen, PhD, leads Sustainable Finance services at KPMG in Finland since 2013. She has led KPMG’s Global Sustainable Finance Working Group and advised the European Commission’s Technical Expert Group (EU TEG) on sustainable finance. Riikka pursues post-doctoral studies at the University of Helsinki, has been on the board of Finsif and Finsif’s Representative in Sitra’s National Steering Group for Impact Investments.
Summary
The Responsible Investor is a practical introductory guide for private as well as institutional investors and financiers interested in environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues.
