Skip to Content
ESG Investing For Dummies
book

ESG Investing For Dummies

by Brendan Bradley
April 2021
Beginner to intermediate
368 pages
10h 55m
English
For Dummies
Content preview from ESG Investing For Dummies

Chapter 4

Give Me an ‘S’! Investigating the Social Aspects of ESG

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Identifying indicators of a company’s social performance

Bullet Studying a company’s social awareness and impacts

Bullet Determining definitions and measurements for social performance

Bullet Choosing weight factors: Social issues and scenario analysis

What does the ‘S’ in ESG mean? Is it Sustainable? Or Stakeholder? Actually, the “Social” factor suffers from the middle child syndrome! There is a sense of exclusion as the ‘E’ (see Chapter 3) is the poster child that everybody talks about and the ‘G’ (see Chapter 5) is the dependable sibling that has the fundamental traits that everybody relies on. Therefore, while the focus on the ESG family has grown in recent years, the wider market still struggles to agree about what aspects the ‘S’ should take in company evaluation and integration into investment decisions.

Companies have made real progress in disclosure on their environmental impact and governance standards, while their social impact and performance measurement is, relatively speaking, the poor stepchild! This can be ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.

Read now

Unlock full access

More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly

AirBnbBlueOriginElectronic ArtsHomeDepotNasdaqRakutenTata Consultancy Services

QuotationMarkO’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.
Julian F.
Head of Cybersecurity
QuotationMarkI wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.
Addison B.
Field Engineer
QuotationMarkI’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.
Amir M.
Data Platform Tech Lead
QuotationMarkI'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
Mark W.
Embedded Software Engineer

You might also like

Corporate Finance For Dummies

Corporate Finance For Dummies

Michael Taillard
Equity Markets, Valuation, and Analysis

Equity Markets, Valuation, and Analysis

H. Kent Baker, Greg Filbeck, Halil Kiymaz

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781119771098Purchase Link