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Innovative Investments for Sustainability: Solutions for the Twenty-First Century

In: Finance for a Better World

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  • Andy White

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Why are some of the world’s most forward-thinking, aggressive and successful financial institutions moving to differentiate themselves through their environmental, social, and governance (ESG) capabilities? Global hypercompetition, accelerated by a “perfect storm” convergence of powerful global mega-trends, has created both challenges and opportunities for investors which are quite literally unprecedented. In order to confront those challenges and seize the opportunities, investors will need both a radically different mindset and an entirely new arsenal of analytical tools. Traditional, accounting-driven investment analysis appears to have reached the limits of its usefulness. As recently as the mid-1980s, financial statements were arguably capable of capturing 75–80 percent of the true risk profile and value potential of major corporations.

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  • Andy White, 2009. "Innovative Investments for Sustainability: Solutions for the Twenty-First Century," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Henri-Claude Bettignies & François Lépineux (ed.), Finance for a Better World, chapter 11, pages 204-224, Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-23575-5_11
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230235755_11
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