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Sustainable Investment (FNCE90087)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5On Campus (Parkville)
About this subject
- Overview
- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
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Overview
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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: 31 January 2024
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
Students must meet one of the following prerequisite options:
Option 1
- Admission into or selection of one of the following:
- MC-FIN Master of Finance
- MC-FINANCE Master of Finance
- MC-FINENH Master of Finance (Enhanced)
- MC-MGMTAFN Master of Management (Accounting and Finance)
- 150pt Program course entry point in the MC-MGMTFIN Master of Management (Finance)
Option 2
- Admission into or selection of one of the following:
- MC-MGMT Master of Management
- MC-MGMTACT Master of Management (Accounting)
- 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
- MC-IB Master of International Business
AND
One of
Code | Name | Teaching period | Credit Points |
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FNCE10002 | Principles of Finance |
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
Summer Term (On Campus - Parkville)
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12.5 |
FNCE90060 | Financial Management |
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
FNCE90065 | Fundamentals of Finance |
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 2 (On Campus - 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: 31 January 2024
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: 31 January 2024
Dates & times
- Semester 2
Principal coordinator Shuang Chen Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 36 hours comprising one 3-hour seminar per week Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 22 July 2024 to 20 October 2024 Last self-enrol date 2 August 2024 Census date 2 September 2024 Last date to withdraw without fail 20 September 2024 Assessment period ends 15 November 2024
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- Student Learning Entitlement. This applies to all students enrolled in a Commonwealth Supported Place (CSP).
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Last updated: 31 January 2024
Further information
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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: 31 January 2024