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ESG Ratings: Love Them or Hate Them?
In a context of growing investor interest for businesses attentive to the social and environmental risks of their activities, ESG ratings have emerged with the function of identifying and selecting companies in line with new market expectations. ESG controversies, the news disseminated by the media on the environmental, social, and governance aspects of companies, could represent a measure of real ...
The Centrality of Corporate Governance
To obtain the "sustainable success" that by now represents the principle of reference of the new corporate governance code for listed companies, large enterprises and SMEs must initiate a true process of change able to involve business, governance, and corporate strategy. The growing pressure from ESG investors, the size of companies, and the presence of independent board members are key elements ...
Sustainability at the Center of Business
The goal of this Dossier is to assess the situation regarding sustainability, thus offering the contribution of the SDA Bocconi School of Management and its Sustainability Lab to the debate on the subject.
The Value of Sustainability in Real Estate
A survey conducted by SDA Bocconi highlights the great interest on the part of investors and policymakers for the new logics of sustainable real estate .
Financial Markets and Sustainability: How Biodiversity Affects Investment
Biodiversity, widely recognized for its role in environmental sustainability, remains an understudied topic in the context of the stock market. Using a combination of fixed regression models and random forest techniques, the research shows that biodiversity is a significant determinant of stock returns. This finding underscores the financial importance of integrating biodiversity into corporate strategies ...
Retail and Logistics: Two Sides of the Same Coin
The advent of new technologies and the Covid-19 pandemic have favored the acceleration of e-commerce, that has been seeing double-digit growth for almost ten years now. This has contributed to the transformation and development of the logistics sector, penalizing traditional physical trade. The strong interest among investors for properties used for logistics, with a symmetrical disinterest for those ...
The Creation of Value through Sustainable Debt Instruments
Sustainable debt instruments, and in particular green bonds, sustainability-linked bonds, and green loans, represent an innovative, constantly-growing solution to finance business activities and projects. These instruments are characterized by the possible presence of the so-called greenium, the negative premium that debt subscribers are willing to pay the issues for those instruments. Although the ...
Social Responsibility, Environmental Sustainability, and ESG Ratings in Italian SMEs
A study conducted on 10,000 Italian SMEs shows that issues such as climate change and the transition toward a more sustainable economy are still little present in the business world in our country. Only one of three companies is worried about the effects on their business model of climate change, and one of five about the consequences of a transition toward a more sustainable economy. Of the sample ...
ESG Rating and Credit: How to Assess Integrated Risk
A sustainability rating, or ESG rating, represents an appropriate integration of the information on business risk deriving from the more consolidated credit rating. An integrated approach that involves a joint assessment of the financial solidity of a company (credit rating) and its sustainability (or solidity of the business model), allows for innovating risk management activity by making it more ...
Accelerating the Transition: Financial Services Must Also Do Their Part
In the last two years, the increase of social disturbances, the growing attention to climate change, and the need to act on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues, has attracted attention from companies in all sectors. Financial services companies are also called on to catalyze and accelerate the transition toward a new economy, based on ecosystems that satisfy the needs of all stakeholders. ...