While the mainstreaming of forms of sustainable finance is a welcome development, the terminology and practices associated with ESG investing vary considerably. One reason for this is that ESG investing has evolved from socially responsible investment philosophies into a distinct form of responsible investing. While earlier…

The current approaches and products of quantitative equity investing stand on the shoulders of major theoretical and empirical contributions in financial economics. At the root of disciplined, modern investment processes are two intuitive concepts: risk and return. This report provides an introduction to these two concepts,…