ESG investing has gained considerable traction over the past few years and, alongside smart beta, factor investing and alternative risk premia, is one of the current hot topics for the asset management industry. Nevertheless, even though large institutions such as insurance companies, pension...

This research is the companion study of three previous research projects conducted at Amundi that address the issue of socially responsible investing (SRI) in the stock market (Berg et al., 2014; Bennani et al., 2018a; Drei et al., 2019). The underlying idea of this new study is to explore the impact of...

This research is an update of the study that we published last year (Bennani et al., 2018) and that explored the impact of ESG investing on asset pricing in the stock market. It extends the original period 2010-2017 by adding eighteen months from January 2018 to June 2019. These new results...

These lectures notes have been written for the course in Sustainable Finance given at the University of Paris-Saclay. The 725 slides cover the following topics: (1) the Market of ESG Investing, Ecosystem of Responsible Investing (2) ESG Scoring & Ratings, Performance of ESG Investing, ESG...

This handbook in Sustainable Finance corresponds to the lecture notes of the course given at University Paris-Saclay, ENSAE and Sorbonne University. It covers the following chapters: 1. Introduction, 2. ESG Scoring, 3. Financial Performance of ESG Investing, 4. Sustainable Financial Products, 5....

These lectures notes have been written for the course in Sustainable Finance given at the University of Paris-Saclay. The slides cover the following topics: (1) Introduction, (2) ESG Investing, (3) Impact of ESG Investing on Asset Prices and Portfolio Returns, (4) Equity Portfolio Optimization...