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LSE announces launch of an Initiative in Sustainable Finance

LSE announces launch of Blended Finance Lab
Leadership of Sustainable Finance Initiative announced

Launch of Global School of Sustainability

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Research Projects
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
Inferring Mutual Fund Intra-Quarter Trading - An Application to ESG Window Dressing
We develop a novel method to infer intra-quarter trading of individual mutual funds. After a mutual fund executes a trade, its reported portfolio...
Coordinated Engagements
We study coordinated engagements by a prominent international network of long-term shareholders cooperating to influence firms on environmental and...
The Clash of ‘E’ and ‘S’ of ESG: Just Transition on the Path to Net Zero and the Implications for Sustainable Corporate Governance and Finance
Climate change is one of the highest-ranking issues on the political and social agenda. Corporations are one of the main actors that will play a major...
Sustainable Investing: Evidence From the Field
We survey 509 equity portfolio managers from both traditional and sustainable funds on whether, why, and how they incorporate firms’ environmental and...