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Barney Schauble - Senior Advisor at Nephila Capital and Chair/Director at Ceres
Barney Schauble, Senior Advisor at Nephila Capital, discusses climate-related reinsurance risks, insurance-linked securities, and the future of catastrophe insurance, highlighting his work with Ceres and socially responsible investing in professional soccer teams in this interview.
12 Oct 2024
Robert Eccles - Visiting Professor at Oxford University and Founding Chairman of SASB - Sustainability Accounting Standards Board
Purchase the Climate Finance Course at www.climatefinancecourse.comRobert G. Eccles is a leading ESG integration academic focusing on sustainable corporate and investment strategies. His work focuses on how capital markets can contribute to ensuring a sustainable society for generations to come.
Dr. Eccles is a Visiting Professor of Management Practice at the Said Business School, University of Oxford. He was a Tenured Professor at Harvard Business School. Eccles has also been a Visiting Lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, and a Berkeley Social Impact Fellow at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley.
He was the founding chairman of the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) and one of the founders of the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC). He is also the first Chair of KKR’s “Sustainability Expert Advisory Council” and was an Eminent Academic Advisor to the Boston Consulting Group on Global ESG Integration and Reporting. He is notably a prolific commentator on Forbes, having published over 150 articles.Dr. Eccles received an S.B. in Mathematics and an S.B. in Humanities and Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an A.M. and Ph.D. in Sociology from Harvard University.
Topics discussed:
Dr. Eccles’s early intellectual evolution was from studying mathematics and humanities at MIT to doing a Ph.D. in sociology focusing on the construction industry.
How writing books on Transfer Pricing and Investment Banking Dealmaking earned Dr. Eccles tenureship at Harvard Business School.
Transition from Academia to Consulting in Disclosure and Performance in the 1990s
1991: The Performance Measurement Manifesto
1992: Creating a Comprehensive System to Measure Performance
1993: Consulting: Has the Solution Become Part of the Problem?
1995: Improving the Corporate Disclosure Process
Book Publications on Value & Integrated Reporting in the 2000s:
2001: The Value Reporting Revolution: Moving beyond the earnings game
2002: Building Public Trust: the Future of Corporate Reporting
2010: One Report: Integrated Reporting for a Sustainable Strategy
Founding Leadership Journey with IIRC (International Integrated Reporting Council) and SASB (Sustainability Accounting Standards Board).
Post-SASB Book Publication: The Integrated Reporting Movement: Meaning, Momentum, Motives, and Materiality (2014).
Importance of Materiality:
Materiality in Corporate Governance: The Statement of Significant Audiences and Materiality (2016).
A Preliminary Analysis of SASB Reporting: Disclosure Topics, Financial Relevance, and the Financial Intensity of ESG Materiality (2020).
How material is a material issue? Stock returns and the financial relevance and financial intensity of ESG materiality (2020).
Thoughts on IIRC & SASB Consolidations to ISSB-IFRS
A Debate At The Oxford Union: Should FASB And IASB Set Standards For Nonfinancial Information? (2018 - Forbes; SSRN).
The International Sustainability Standards Board As An Ideological Rorschach Test (2021 - Forbes).
Historical Origins of ESG and Sustainability Reporting
Exploring social origins in the construction of ESG measures (2018).
The Social Origins of ESG: An Analysis of Innovest and KLD (2020)
From “Who Cares Wins” To Pernicious Progressivism: 18 Years Of ESG (2022)
Political Backlash and Regulation on ESG:
Some Constructive Feedback To 23 Red States On Their Anti-ESG Campaigns (August 2023).
A Color Spectrum Analysis Of The Redness Of 23 Red States (July 2023).
Written Statement for the House Financial Services Committee June 12, 2023 Hearing entitled "Protecting Investor Interests: Examining Environmental and Social Policy in Financial Regulation"
Anti-ESG Fund Analysis: Drilling Into DRLL’s Top 10 Holdings: A Woke Analysis (2022)
Global SDG Funding Gap:
How to close the $2.5 trillion annual funding gap (Jan 2018).
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30 Apr 2024
Shivaram Rajgopal - Professor of Accounting at Columbia Business School
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Shivaram Rajgopal is the Kester and Byrnes Professor of Accounting and Auditing at Columbia Business School. He has previously held professorship positions at Duke University, Emory University, and the University of Washington.
Dr. Rajgopal´s research is focused on ESG, Governance, Financial Reporting, Valuation, Fraud, Executive Compensation, Short-Termism, Corporate Culture, Technology, and Sovereign Debt/Fiscal Responsibility. He has 200 academic publications and 100+ op-eds on Forbes. Prior to his academic career, he started his professional career at Proctor & Gamble and CitiBank.
Dr. Rajgopal received his Ph.D. in Accounting and Finance from the University of Iowa and a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Mumbai. He is also a Chartered Accountant from the Indian Institute of Chartered Accountants.
Topics discussed:
Dr. Rajgopal´s intellectual evolution from being a Chartered Accountant in India to writing a Doctoral Dissertation on the Commodity Price Risk Exposure of Oil and Gas Producers.
Early Research Interest: the IPO Boom in the 1990s (Source (https://www.forbes.com/sites/shivaramrajgopal/2020/12/14/is-this-time-different-learning-from-the-1999-ipo-boom/)) and the Enron Scandal (Source (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=879831)).
Evolution of Reporting:
Did Investor Interest In Financial Reporting Peak With Enron? (Source (https://www.forbes.com/sites/shivaramrajgopal/2022/12/17/did-investor-interest-in-financial-reporting-peak-with-enron/)).
ESG Is A Response To A Broken Reporting Model (Source (https://www.forbes.com/sites/shivaramrajgopal/2023/06/07/esg-is-a-response-to-a-broken-reporting-model/))
Limited Role of the SEC regarding Climate Regulations: The SEC’s Attempt To Write Generally Accepted Climate Principles ( Part 1 (https://www.forbes.com/sites/shivaramrajgopal/2022/03/28/the-secs-attempt-to-write-generally-accepted-climate-principlespart-i/) & Part 2 (https://www.forbes.com/sites/shivaramrajgopal/2022/03/28/the-secs-attempt-to-write-generally-accepted-climate-principlespart-i/))
What If Both Sides Of The ESG Debate Are Right About US Majors’ Oil And Gas Investments, But For The Wrong Reasons? (Source (https://www.forbes.com/sites/shivaramrajgopal/2023/01/19/what-if-both-sides-of-the-esg-debate-are-right-about-us-majors-oil-and-gas-investments-but-for-the-wrong-reasons/)).
Perspectives on ESG Strategies:
Screening: Does ESG Negative Screening Work? (Source (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4150524)).
Shareholder Engagements: Big Three (Dis)Engagements (Source (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4580206)).
ESG Asset Class Perspectives:
Private Equity: Does Private Equity Have An ESG Problem? ( Part 1 (https://www.forbes.com/sites/shivaramrajgopal/2023/08/03/does-private-equity-pe-have-an-esg-problem--part-1/) & Part 2 (https://www.forbes.com/sites/shivaramrajgopal/2023/08/04/does-private-equity-pe-have-an-esg-problempart-2/)).
Green Bonds: Rethinking the Value and Emission Implications of Green Bonds (Source (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4215882)).
REITs - Real Estate Investment Trusts:
Hotels In Name Only: The Strange Case Of Lodging REITs (Source (https://www.forbes.com/sites/shivaramrajgopal/2022/05/03/hotels-in-name-only-the-strange-case-of-lodging-reits/)).
The Need For Climate Risk Disclosures: A Case Study Of Physical Risk Of Two REITS, EQR and ARE (Source (https://www.forbes.com/sites/shivaramrajgopal/2023/03/22/the-need-for-climate-risk-disclosures-a-case-study-of-physical-risk-of-two-reits-eqr-and-are/)).
(Re)Insurance:
A Comparative Analysis Of Incorporating Climate Risk In Underwriting Insurance For AXA Vs. Chubb, Liberty Mutual, And Travelers (Source (https://www.forbes.com/sites/shivaramrajgopal/2022/11/10/where-is-the-us-insurance-industry-on-climate-change/)) and also within their Investment Portfolios (Source (https://www.forbes.com/sites/shivaramrajgopal/2022/11/18/a-comparative-analysis-of-incorporating-climate-risk-in-investment-portfolios-of-axa-vs-chubb-liberty-mutual-and-travelers/)).
ESG Default Insurance (Source (https://www.forbes.com/sites/shivaramrajgopal/2021/11/01/esg-default-insurance/)).
Advice to Future Generations: What Skills Should Finance Students Seek To Acquire In School? (Source (https://www.forbes.com/sites/shivaramrajgopal/2022/09/11/what-skills-should-finance-students-seek-to-acquire-in-school/))
Note: This podcast is for informational purposes only and should not be considered as investment advice. The interview took place on 11th October 2023.
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