This book explores sustainable wealth management and the challenges that arise for asset managers in times of ecological crises and climate change. It deals with portfolio engineering, combining risk and impact, transitioning from environmental, social, and governance (ESG) concepts to Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) concepts and the different role of the intermediaries and players in the financial markets. It provides researchers, scholars, academics and policy makers an interdisciplinary approach to redirecting capital towards sustainability.

Features practical advice and case studies Explores the challenges faced by asset managers in times of ecological crises Analyses the transition from ESG to the UN SDGs

Autorentext

Dr. Karen Wendt is the President of Sustainable Finance (Cham, Switzerland) and CEO of ECCOS Impact GmbH (Cham, Switzerland). She is also a serial entrepreneur, scientist and co-editor of the Sustainable Finance book series at Springer. She advises companies on sustainability and is proven expert in impact investing, international management, sustainable finance, and strategy development. She is currently conducting research on social entrepreneurship, stock exchanges and portfolio engineering.

Bernd Villhauer is Managing Director of the Global Ethics Institute (Tubingen, Germany) where he supports juries and research groups, financial managers and banks. He is also co-Founder of the Institut für Praxis der Philosophie eV in Darmstadt, Germany and Heads the Lab "Good Leadership" at the European School of Governance (Berlin, Germany). His work focuses on sustainable finance, monetary theory and financial ethics.

Inhalt

1. Impact investing is not ESG.- Towards a universal framework for impact investing.- 2. Future Capital: The Importance of Wealth Management for Sustainable Finance.- 3. The Future Wealth of Nations.- 4. Environmental information disclosure quality, institutional pressure, and the cost of debt: Evidence from China's heavy polluters.- 5. Custom ESG Indexing can challenge popularity of ETFs.- 6. Investment in Africa.- 7. Sustainability across different asset classes - integration in a multi-asset portfolio.