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LSE announces launch of an Initiative in Sustainable Finance
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Research Projects
Connecting or dividing? The stewardship implications of pass-through voting
Pass-through voting is an innovation that provides investors in pooled funds with the ability to direct votes in proportion to their holdings. We partnered with the Investor & Issuer Forum to study...
The effectiveness of sustainable investing
Fostering engagement between practitioners and academics to develop a shared understanding of the opportunities and limits of sustainable investing.
Latest Publications
Do Climate Disclosure Mandates Help Decarbonise the Economy?
This Policy Brief reviews the convincing academic evidence which shows that climate disclosure mandates introduced in the UK did lead to reductions in...
Behind the Corporate Veil: How Business Groups Arbitrage ESG Disclosure Mandates
We examine how ESG disclosure mandates introduced in the headquarters countries of business groups affect the ESG performance of both parent companies...
Credit Substitution in Sustainable Finance: An Achilles Heel?
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Polarization, Purpose and Profit
We present a model in which firms compete for workers who value nonpecuniary job attributes, such as purpose, sustainability, political stances, or...
Financing a Sustainable Future Podcast
The Financing a Sustainable Future Podcast is a series of discussions with leading LSE Academics on their research in Sustainable Finance. The discussions are intended to bring research findings to practitioners in a way that is comprehensible and actionable, while informing them of the state of the art in research in the sustainable finance field.
Tom Gosling, Professor in Practice at the Financial Markets Group, hosts the series, interviewing authors of academic papers to uncover their key insights.
To listen to the Podcast and read the articles, click below.
