June 15 New Date Locked In: Introduction to Corporate ESG for Investment & Finance Professionals Certification

April 4, 2017 /3BL Media/ - New date locked in for the second Introduction to Corporate ESG for Investment & Finance Professionals Certification scheduled for June 15, 2017. This full-day course is offered by Governance & Accountability Institute and Global Change Associates and is being hosted at Baruch College/CUNY at The Newman Vertical Campus in New York City.

WORKING AGENDA & ANTICIPATED SPEAKERS / PRESENTERS

• Welcoming Remarks
  Speaker to be announced representing Baruch College
   
• Welcoming and Introduction to Corporate ESG Strategies, Peformance, Actions -- What is Corporate ESG and Why It Really Matters to Shareowners 
  Hank Boerner, Chairman & Co-Founder, Governance & Accountability Institute
   
• Bridging the Perceived Gap Between Corporate Sustainability & Corporate Profitability: Materiality, Risk Management and How Top and Bottom Lines Are Affected
  Louis Coppola, EVP & Co-Founder, Governance & Accountability Institute
   
• Integrating ESG Factors into Portfolio Construction 
  Financial Advisor Firm TBA
   
• ESG Analysis, Rating, and Research 
  Gaurav Trivedi, Senior Associate, ESG, MSCI
   
• What Investors Need to Know About the Rising Importance of Impact Investing
  Kate Starr (Invited), Founder & CIO, Flat World Partners; formerly Vice President-Capital Deployment, Heron Foundation
   
• About SASB (Sustainability Accounting Standards Board) and More Effective 10-k Disclosure 
  Eric Kane, Sector Analyst - Health Care, SASB
   
• Case Study of Corporate Malfeasance: The VW Emissions Scandal 
  Peter Fusaro, Chairman, Global Change Associates
   
• ESG Equity Fundamentals Data Analytics 
  Hideki Suzuki, ESG Group, Equity Fundamentals Department, Bloomberg LP 
  Nichole Powers, ESG Analyst, Bloomberg LP
   
• ESG Risk and Integration in Portfolio Management
  Raul Manjarin, Global Management Team, RepRisk AG (Switzerland)
   
• About the Baruch CSR-Sustainability Monitor Project 
  Mert Demir, PhD in Finance, Senior Research Associate, Weismann Center for International Business at Baruch College
   
• Wrap-Up Comments - Seminar Concludes Looking Beyond Corporate Sustainability & Financial Performance 
  Hank Boerner, Chairman & Co-Founder, Governance & Accountability Institute 
  Louis Coppola, EVP & Co-Founder, Governance & Accountability Institute 
  Peter Fusaro, Chairman, Global Change Associates

Lecturers include leading experts in the sustainable investing field and the participants will come away with an understanding of why ESG matters, and how to apply ESG to corporate valuations, reputation, risk, opportunity and other aspects of financial analysis.

For more information and to register click here.

For questions, contact Louis D. Coppola, Executive Vice President & Co-Founder, Governance & Accountability Institute, Inc. at tel 646.430.8230 ext 14 or email lcoppola@ga-institute.com.