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The case for giving full service attention to stakeholder value creation

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(Outlet: Green Biz) The insurance industry is increasingly wary of the risks presented by climate and natural disasters, prompting major firms to scale back their presence in more vulnerable states. Benjamin Keys, Assistant Professor of Real Estate at the Wharton School chimes in on the nationwide impact.…Read More

Ohio, Like Other GOP-Led States, Would Limit Considering Climate Change in Pension Investments

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(Outlet: The Allegheny Front) In the face of a new proposed bill to limit ESG investments, Witold Henisz, vice dean and faculty director of the ESG Initiative at the Wharton School, explains why investors may care about ESG and the negative impacts of this kind of legislation.…Read More

The Tipping Point Fund on Impact Investing Announces Grants to the GIIN, The Impact, ShareAction, Shift, and the ESG Initiative at the Wharton School

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(Outlet: Tipping Point Fund on Impact Investing) With funding from the TPF, the ESG Initiative at the Wharton School will lead a convening of business school leaders who seek system-level change by harnessing the power of business research and education to address urgent sustainability challenges.…Read More

Your Homeowners’ Insurance Bill Is the Canary in the Climate Coal Mine

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(Outlet: The New York Times) Wharton Prof. Benjamin Keys shares how climate change is reshaping the market for homeowners insurance, and the broader implications for homeowners. …Read More

Ask Me Anything

(Outlet: Wharton Magazine) What are the ramifications of political blowback over companies’ environmental, social, and governance efforts, such as states cutting ties with money managers that factor ESG into their investment decisions?…Read More

Karl Racine: Financial Clients Around the World are Focused on ESG

(Outlet: Wharton Business Daily) Karl Racine, Former Attorney General for the District of Columbia, joins the show to discuss the politicization of ESG and the rise of misinformation around it.…Read More

Wharton Professors Luke Taylor and Robert Stambaugh Win Kellogg’s Moskowitz Prize

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For 27 years the Moskowitz Prize has identified and recognized research results that can influence global practice of responsible finance. From a field of over 160 submitted papers, Dissecting Green Returns was selected as the winner of the 2022 Moskowitz Prize at Northwestern University. …Read More

Companies that walk the talk on workforce investments reaping 4% higher return on invested capital: report

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(Outlet: Benefits Canada) Companies that back up talk about investing in employees with action are associated with a four per cent higher return on invested capital, according to a global report by the CPP Investments Insights Institute, FCLTGlobal and the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School.…Read More

Gas, guns, and governments: Financial costs of anti-ESG policies

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(Outlet: Brookings) Wharton’s Daniel Garrett and the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago’s Ivan T. Ivanov report on the financial costs of anti-ESG legislation. …Read More

Training the next generation of impact investors with Adwoa Asare

(Outlet: Impact Alpha Podcasts) The Turner Miint’s Adwoa Asare joins co-hosts Monique Aiken and Brian Walsh to talk about training the next generation of impact investors – and the winners of this year’s competition. Plus the headlines.…Read More