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Sustainable Investment (FNCE90087)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5Dual-Delivery (Parkville)
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About this subject
- Overview
- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
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Contact information
Overview
Availability | Semester 2 - Dual-Delivery |
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Fees | Look up fees |
Sustainability is an increasingly important consideration in the finance sector. This subject will examine how Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) risks, including climate change and human rights, can be integrated into investment decisions and ongoing management. Topics will include: how investors vote and actively engage with investee companies to ensure long-term value creation, ethical investing, social activist divestment campaigns and financial market innovations to address sustainability objectives. This subject will also outline why, how and where investment is used to intentionally drive social and environmental impact in alignment with the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Topics will include: a practical overview of best practice in strategically managing impact, embedding impact considerations into all elements of fund management, and how various elements of global and national financial systems help and hinder the flow of capital to impact.
Intended learning outcomes
On successful completion of this subject students should be able to:
- Understand ESG, ethical investing, impact investing and related terms
- Build practical tools to integrate ESG risks into investment decisions
- Describe the concept of stewardship and understand how ownership rights are exercised by investors
- Describe the major financial market products and innovations designed to provide sustainability outcomes
- Explain how recent developments in derivatives markets such as ESG future and options can be used for risk management and trading purposes
- Understand the products, tools, tactics and strategies currently used in impact investing
- Understand how impact considerations are embedded in decision-making, including due diligence and strategy processes
- Describe how elements of the global and national financial systems (e.g. regulation, frameworks, standards, institutions, intermediaries) interact to enable or hinder the flow of capital to sustainable investment
Generic skills
- Oral and written communication
- Problem solving
- Application of theory to practice
- Team work
- Critical thinking
- Evaluation of data
- Using Computer Programs
- Statistical Reasoning
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
Students must meet one of the following prerequisite options:
Option 1
Admission into one of the following:
- MC-FIN Master of Finance
- MC-FINANCE Master of Finance
- MC-FINENH Master of Finance (Enhanced)
- 150pt Program course entry point in the MC-MGMTFIN Master of Management (Finance)
Option 2
Admission into one of the following:
- MC-MGMT Master of Management
- MC-MGMTACT Master of Management (Accounting)
- MC-MGMTAFN Master of Management (Accounting and Finance)
- MC-MGMTFIN Master of Management (Finance)
- MC-MGMTHRE Master of Management (Human Resources)
- MC-MGMTMKT Master of Management (Marketing)
- GC-SUSTBUS Graduate Certificate in Sustainable Business
AND
One of
Code | Name | Teaching period | Credit Points |
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FNCE10002 | Principles of Finance |
Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
Summer Term (Online)
|
12.5 |
FNCE90060 | Financial Management |
Semester 1 (Online)
Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
FNCE90065 | Fundamentals of Finance |
Semester 1 (Online)
Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
None
Inherent requirements (core participation requirements)
The University of Melbourne is committed to providing students with reasonable adjustments to assessment and participation under the Disability Standards for Education (2005), and the Assessment and Results Policy (MPF1326). Students are expected to meet the core participation requirements for their course. These can be viewed under Entry and Participation Requirements for the course outlines in the Handbook.
Further details on how to seek academic adjustments can be found on the Student Equity and Disability Support website: http://services.unimelb.edu.au/student-equity/home
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Assessment
Description | Timing | Percentage |
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Individual Assignment
| Week 6 | 20% |
Group Assignment
| Week 12 | 40% |
Final Examination
| During the examination period | 40% |
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Dates & times
- Semester 2
Principal coordinator Jonathan Dark Mode of delivery Dual-Delivery (Parkville) Contact hours 36 hours comprising one 3-hour seminar per week Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 26 July 2021 to 24 October 2021 Last self-enrol date 6 August 2021 Census date 31 August 2021 Last date to withdraw without fail 24 September 2021 Assessment period ends 19 November 2021
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
To be advised by the subject coordinator
- Available to Study Abroad and/or Study Exchange Students
This subject is available to students studying at the University from eligible overseas institutions on exchange and study abroad. Students are required to satisfy any listed requirements, such as pre- and co-requisites, for enrolment in the subject.
Last updated: 3 November 2022