Sustainable

Finance and
Impact Investing
Re-imagine the future of finance
and investment.
 Understand today.
Influence tomorrow.
At LSE Executive Education,
we see the world as
interconnected.
We are not just another business school. As a leading
social sciences university, we believe a multidisciplinary
approach and understanding is fundamental to success
across sectors, corporations and organisations.
LSE has been a pioneer in providing executive education
for professional development since our inception
in 1895. Founded to know the causes of things for
the betterment of society, LSE’s mission remains as
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relevant today as ever–our global influence extends
beyond the business world, with 37 world leaders and
18 Nobel prize winners having taught or studied at LSE.
We take an unashamedly intelligent approach to
executive education. Rated number one in the UK
by the Research Excellence Framework, our world-
class research and outstanding faculty shape the LSE
Executive Education learning experience. We forge
leaders who shape our world, change-makers who
see the power in exploring the cause of things, and
executives who know that if you want to influence
tomorrow, you need to understand today.
This is the LSE Advantage.
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Use the tools of finance and
investing to make a meaningful
shift to a more sustainable future.
Business has an unprecedented and powerful role to play in
addressing the many issues threatening people and planet;
but only if leaders make better decisions about how to
finance their organisations.

Sustainable Finance and Impact Investing is a ground-

breaking programme that fully leverages the research and
thought leadership of LSE’s Department of Finance. This is
a programme that simultaneously gives you the big-picture
understanding, the frameworks and the resources you need
to make a quantum shift in how you manage the trade-
offs, and build towards a better future. You will master how
sustainable finance and impact investing shapes firm and
fund performance as well as investor response. And you will
walk away with the toolkit to lead change, and build towards
a brighter tomorrow today.

5 Days in World class Central

London
length faculty location

Key Topics
Motivating Sustainable Finance and Impact Investing engagement tools • An overview of activist investing
• The consequences of climate change and the • Impact investing deep dive.
economics of externalities • Public finance solutions to
Culture and Brand Values
climate change • Shareholder vs. stakeholder view and
• How brand values are filters for decision making
the rise of corporate social responsibility
• Detect and leverage the current ‘living values’ in
• Measuring sustainability: ESG metrics.
an organisation.
Sustainability and Asset Pricing
Sustainability in Private Equity and Microfinance
• What is socially responsible investing? • Portfolio
• Emissions and emissions markets • Private markets
choice with sustainability goals: Markowitz meets ESG •
and impact investing • Analysing microfinance and
How do sustainability preferences affect market prices?
development economics • Climate change in the context
The ESG-CAPM • Climate finance • Green Bonds.
of financial regulation • Financing the Green Transition.
Shareholder Engagement and Impact Investing
• Understanding exit versus voice • Effective

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Attendee Profile
Who is this programme
suitable for?
Sustainable Finance & Impact Investing convenes
a broad diversity of executives and decision-makers
who hold responsibility for sustainability within their
organisation. Each cohort is devised to maximise the rich
interchange of perspectives and to accelerate peer-to-
peer learning. Participants include:

•  enior executives searching for insight into how

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sustainable finance and impact investing will affect
asset management and capital budgeting

•  ortfolio managers looking to incorporate

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sustainability into their investment process

• Professionals within the finance industry

• Individuals looking to understand the implications of

sustainability on public and private financial markets Participants from over 60 countries:
as well as the real investment choices of firms

• Policy makers interested in issues of sustainability

20% 10%
7% UK Asia
Faculty North
America 33%
Europe 9%
Middle
Professor Christopher Polk 3%
East
10%
Professor Christopher Polk is Professor of Central Africa
and South 8%
Finance in the Department of Finance at
America Oceania
LSE. He is a Research Fellow at the Center
for Economic and Policy Research and
Associate Editor for the Journal of Finance. And a range of organisations:

Professor Martin Oehmke
Martin Oehmke is a Professor of Finance at
the LSE. Prior to joining the LSE, Professor
Oehmke was an Associate Professor of
Finance at Columbia Business School.
Professor Oehmke serves on the Advisory
Scientific Committee of the European
Systemic Risk Board, and has previously
worked at the Federal Reserve Bank of
New York, Oliver Wyman & Company, and
Goldman Sachs International. He is also
an expert consultant on issues relating to
fixed income markets.
ABN AMRO ANZ Banking Group Asian Development
Bank Bank Indonesia BNP Paribas Capital Market
Authority Citibank European Central Bank European
Investment Bank Goldman Sachs HSBC ING Investec
J.P. Morgan KPMG Morgan Stanley PwC Qatar Financial
Centre Regulatory Authority Santander Societe Generale
Standard Chartered Bank The Economist Intelligence
Unit UBS Westpac

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How to apply
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of our latest dates and fees
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