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ESG-coherent risk measures for sustainable investing

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  • Gabriele Torri
  • Rosella Giacometti
  • Darinka Dentcheva
  • Svetlozar T. Rachev
  • W. Brent Lindquist

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The growing interest in sustainable investing calls for an axiomatic approach to measures of risk and reward that focus not only on financial returns, but also on measures of environmental and social sustainability, i.e. environmental, social, and governance (ESG) scores. We propose definitions for ESG-coherent risk measures and ESG reward-risk ratios based on functions of bivariate random variables that are applied to financial returns and ESG scores, extending the traditional univariate measures to the ESG case. We provide examples and present an empirical analysis in which the ESG-coherent risk measures and ESG reward-risk ratios are used to rank stocks.

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  • Gabriele Torri & Rosella Giacometti & Darinka Dentcheva & Svetlozar T. Rachev & W. Brent Lindquist, 2023. "ESG-coherent risk measures for sustainable investing," Papers 2309.05866, arXiv.org.
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