Investing in the UN Sustainable Development Goals: Opportunities for Companies and Investors

• Published date: 01 June 2017
• Date: 01 June 2017
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/jacf.12236

In This Issue: Sustainability and Shareholder Value

How We Invest 10 Michael Bloomberg and Carl Pope

SASB 2016 Symposium

Sustainability and Rewriting the Book on Valuation: An Interview with Tim Koller

16 Tim Koller, McKinsey & Company, with Jonathan Bailey,

FCLT Global

SASB 2016 Symposium Roundtable

The SEC and Improving Sustainability Reporting

22 Keith Higgins, Securities and Exchange Commission; Alan Beller,

Cleary Gottlieb; and John White, Cravath, Swaine, & Moore.

Moderated by Mary Schapiro, Promontory Financial Group

SASB 2016 Symposium Roundtable

The Next Wave of ESG Integration: Lessons from Institutional Investors

32 Ted Eliopoulos, CalPERS; Kristi Mitchem, Wells Fargo Asset

Management; Chris Ailman, CalSTERS; and Michelle Edkins,

BlackRock. Moderated by Janine Guillot, Sustainability

Accounting Standards Board

SASB 2016 Symposium Roundtable

Analysts’ Roundtable on Integrating ESG into Investment Decision-Making

44 Dan Hanson, Jarislowsky Fraser Global Investment

Management; Jennifer Bender, State Street Global Advisors;

Robert Lamy, CFA Institute; and Tom Lyons, Montgomery

Fixed Income. Moderated by Bruno Bertocci, UBS Asset

Management

Far Beyond the Quarterly Call: CECP’s First CEO-Investor Forum 56 Tim Youmans and Brian Tomlinson, CECP Strategic Investor

Initiative

Evaluating Sustainable Competitive Advantage 70 Baruch Lev, New York University

The Purpose of the Firm, Valuation, and the Management of Intangibles 76 Bartley J. Madden

Investing in the UN Sustainable Development Goals: Opportunities for

Companies and Investors

87 Willem Schramade, NN Investment Partners

Evaluating the Effectiveness of Sustainability Disclosure:

Findings from a Recent SASB Study

100 Arturo Rodriguez, Henrik Cotran, and Levi S. Stewart,

Sustainability Accounting Standards Board

Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics: Why a Widely Used Sustainability Metric

Fails and How to Improve It

109 Jon Bartley, Al Chen, Stephen Harvey, Scott Showalter,

Gilroy Zuckerman, North Carolina State University, and Levi

Stewart, Sustainability Accounting Standard Board

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