ESG and Shareholder Value

ESG and Shareholder Value

Speaker: Professor Aaron Yoon

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Event Agenda 

17:30 - 18:30 GMT - CQF Institute Global Talk: Professor Aaron Yoon

This event can earn you up to 2 CPD credits.

Abstract

ESG has been an uneasy marriage of investors looking for financial returns and those prioritizing social ones. There has been recent attention to greenwashing, which caused the anti-woke and woke debate. However, almost all firms are issuing disclosures such as ESG reports claiming that ESG is not an important investment activity. Against this backdrop, finding ESG factors that deliver financial return is important. This talk will comment about the state of ESG investing and go through the ESG initiatives that are likely to see a financial payoff, and what it will take for the sector to continue to thrive.

Speaker Bio

Professor Aaron Yoon is interested in how to account for a firm's Environment Social Governance (ESG) efforts and integrate the information into portfolio decision making process. According to the Financial Times, his research on ESG was a turning point on how investors viewed and integrated ESG information and the methodologies suggested in his works have been widely implemented by asset managers. His work has been regularly cited in other outlets such as Bloomberg, Forbes, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal.

He also received multiple awards for his research and teaching, including the Best 40 Under 40 Professors Recognition from Poets & Quants, Crowell Prize for Best Paper in Quantitative Investing from PanAgora Asset Management, Chair's Core Teaching Award from Kellogg, and the Best Dissertation Award from the American Accounting Association.

Professor Yoon earned his Doctorate from Harvard University and his master’s and bachelor’s from Northwestern University. Prior to academia, he worked as an equities salestrader and research analyst at Credit Suisse.