Sustainable Investment (FNCE90087)

Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5On Campus (Parkville)

You’re viewing the 2024 Handbook:
Or view archived Handbooks
You’re currently viewing the 2024 version of this subject

Overview

Availability
Semester 2
FeesLook 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: 8 November 2024