Evolutions in Sustainable Investing: Strategies, Funds and Thought Leadership: 618 (Wiley Finance) - Hardcover

Krosinsky, Cary

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0470888490 ISBN 13: 9780470888490

Publisher: Wiley, 2011

Synopsis

Evolutions in Sustainable Investing
Real-world guidance for investment professionals on delivering attractive risk-adjusted and opportunity-directed returns across asset classes and regions using a sustainability lensFilled with interviews with leading practitioners, this book weaves a narrated web around best sustainable investment practices, guiding readers specifically on investing their assets and with specific sustainability trends in mind, such as increasing constraints on global resources.Offers a clear road map to success by some of the most respected names in the fieldIncludes interviews with leading practitionersClearly explains how to get sustainable investing done"Evolutions of Sustainable Investing" is a practitioner's book specifically laying out how this positive investment philosophy is being practiced, leaving the more negative approaches of socially responsible investing behind. This book is essential for any investor limited by old strategies that disregard a changing world of diminishing resources, an increasing global population as well as the market advantage now being experienced by the most efficient, innovative global companies.

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Review:

A genuinely comprehensive account...a clear road map for beginners and experienced investment practitioners alike Ethical Corporation

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Praise for Evolutions in Sustainable Investing

"If we're to shift our financial systems to support economic, social, and environmental prosperity, we'll need a new generation of professionals who understand how sustainability aligns with superior financial returns. Evolutions in Sustainable Investing brings together the best of that mind-set from the pioneers and leading lights of the field. This is a rich and rewarding road map for anyone seeking to achieve long-term investment success."

--Joel Makower, Chairman and Executive Editor, GreenBiz Group, and author of Strategies for the Green Economy

"A comprehensive, multifaceted examination of the underpinnings of one of the most hopeful new developments in our troubled financial community today."

--Steve Lydenberg, Partner, Strategic Vision, Domini

"This book is full of illuminating insights about the development of sustainable investing in recent years, and points to directions and opportunities for the future. It captures the latest lessons from the front line of efforts to integrate sustainability into investment practice. But it also goes several steps further, exploring some of the social, psychological, and institutional dimensions of the challenge of building an investment system that is aligned with sustainability. This is where the frontier of thinking, experimentation, and learning will lie in the coming years. This book is a very valuable contribution to this evolution."

--Rob Lake, Director of Strategic Development, Principles for Responsible Investment

"More and more investors realize that sustainable investment approaches can lead to better risk-adjusted financial returns and promote sustainable business practices and solutions. By combining the perspectives of some of the world's leading thinkers and practitioners in the sustainable investing domain, this book provides the reader with a thorough understanding of how sustainable investing can be done in practice."

--Bernd Jan Sikken, Programme Director Finance and Sustainability, Duisenberg School of Finance; coauthor of Financing Sustainability

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0470888490
• ISBN 13: 9780470888490
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 512