Dailycsr.com – 02 February 2017 – Asset owners, financial analysts, asset managers along with “other financial professionals” have come together to host the “second session” of the “one-day certificate program”, called the “Introduction to Corporate Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) for Investment and Finance Professionals”, as the call to “sustainable investing” in education seem to grow daily.
The event will host series of programmes which will be organised by “Governance & Accountability Institute (G&A) and Global Change Associates (GCA)”, while the “Zicklin School of Business at Baruch College” will be the host of the same.
The inaugural session of the “all-day certification program”, that took place on the month of December 2016, turned out to be a success. As a result of which the second session is going to be held on Wednesday, the 15th of March 2017. The event will take place at the “Newman Vertical” campus of the Baruch College located on the “55 Lexington Avenue” in “midtown Manhattan”.
The programme will start at “8.30 am” “with registration” followed by continental breakfast” which will lead to a “full day of lectures” delivered by the “sustainable investing” sector’s leaders and experts. Moreover, the all day long event will also include a lunch aimed at networking, while after completing the seminar the participants will be given a completion certification from “G&A and GCA”.
As informed by the Ethical Performance, the confirmed agenda of the event is given below:
- 8:30 am – Arrival, Registration & Complimentary Continental Breakfast
- 9:00 am – Welcoming Remarks
- 9:10 am – Welcoming and Introduction to Corporate ESG Strategies, Performance, Actions — What is Corporate ESG – Why It Really Matters to Shareowners
- 9:20 am – Bridging the Perceived Gap Between Corporate Sustainability & Corporate Profitability — Materiality, Risk Management and How Top and Bottom Lines Are Affected
- 10:00 am – Topic To Be Announced
- 10:30 am – Coffee Break and Networking
- 10:45 am – ESG Analysis, Rating, and Research
- 11:30 am – What Investors Need to Know About the Rising Importance of Impact Investing
- 12:00 pm – Lunch – Networking
- 1:15 pm – About SASB (Sustainability Standards Board) and More Effective 10-k Disclosure
- 1:45 pm – Case Study of Corporate Malfeasance: The VW Emissions Scandal
- 2:30 pm – Break
- 2:45 pm – ESG Equity Fundamentals Data Analytics
- 3:30 pm – ESG Risk and Integration in Portfolio Management
- 4:15 pm – About the Baruch CSR-Sustainability Monitor Project
- 4:30 pm – Wrap-up Comments – Seminar Concludes
As the lecturers come from the background of “sustainable investing field” as the “leading experts”, the participants will be able to come away from the session with an “understanding” of “why corporate ESG matters in investing” and also how the ESG factors could be applied into “corporate valuations”, besides covering “analysis of reputation, risk, opportunity and other aspects of financial analysis”.
While Ethical Performance also reports that: “All participants will have access to all presentations after the seminar. Each attendee will receive a digital copy of Hank Boerner’s new book – ‘Trends Converging, A Look Ahead of the Curve for ESG, Sustainability, CR, SRI Professionals’.”
References: ethicalperformance.com
