PRI Webinar

25. Februar 2016

ESG & Corporate Financial Performance: the potential for enhanced investment returns

The United Nations-supported Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) Initiative is an international network of investors working together to put the six Principles for Responsible Investment into practice. Its goal is to understand the implications of sustainability for investors and support signatories to incorporate these issues into their investment decision making and ownership practices.

In this one hour webinar Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management and the University of Hamburg present the findings from new academic research that analyses over 2,200 studies, which is the most extensive research to date, on whether integrating ESG into the investment process has had a positive effect on corporate financial performance (CFP), whether the effect was stable over time, how a link between ESG and CFP differs across regions and asset classes and whether any specific sub-category of E, S or G had a dominant influence on CFP.

The paper by Gunnar Friede, Timo Busch and Alexander Bassen has received growing coverage, most recently from Forbes, Responsible Investor and Environmental Finance.