According to the data of The Global Sustainable Investment Alliance (2021), majority of sustainable assets are in US and Europe. In other region such as Asia and developing countries, sustainable investment seems not so popular and only account for few parts of global sustainable assets. Herringer, et al. (2009) points out that the success of sustainable finance is depend on whether local government has solid understanding of the concept and ability of overcoming the challenges in sustainable finance. In Maslow's hierarchy of needs (Maslow, 1943), need for self-actualization is in a high leve ..read more

When people are talking about sustainable finance, there are two main things they should consider in both sustainability and financial return. Many academic papers or investment institutions demonstrated the advantages of sustainable finance, such as better financial performance (Ortas, et al., 2015; Lee, et al., 2016; Yadav, et al., 2016) and risk reduction (Jansson & Biel, 2011; Morgan Stanley, 2019). While Lean & Nguyen (2014) and Cunha et al. (2020) argue that in the period of crisis, sustainable finance present a inferior return and risk performance. These researches express posit ..read more

My first blog of sustainable finance gives you a brief introduction to sustainable finance. The second blog will give you a general idea of why people choose sustainable finance. Sustainable finance based on the sustainability, which means in financial activities, people should consider the needs of future generations, rather than short-termism. This could be regard as the ultimate reason of sustainable finance. International Platform on Sustainable Finance (IPSF) established for the services of countries in the world for exploring better sustainable finance. Therefore, at the level of human b ..read more

With the signed of agreements such as Pairs Agreement, to deal with global warming and climate changes become a state-based strategy, sustainable development has become an inevitable tendency. In finance community, there has been a growing interest in sustainability among the investors, and lead to the occur of sustainable finance. Recently, sustainable finance seems to be a ‘market fad’. The amount of assets and the number of market participants engaged in sustainable finance are continuous to climb in global (The Global Sustainable Investment Alliance, 2019). Banks and investment compan ..read more

Due to the impact of Covid-19 pandemic, a lot of companies are considered to curtail or delay their dividend to shareholders, to keep the company afloat in the situation of declining revenues. The shareholders should regard this as normal because everyone’s dividends are affected in some extent, however, for the shareholder of Royal Dutch Shell, one of the world’s largest dividend payers, they did not think so. Royal Dutch Shell cut its payout in April for the first time since the second world war. Jessica Uhl, chief financial officer at Shell, reiterated that the dividend cut was the “prudent ..read more

Things have not been good for Victoria's Secret (VS) in 2020. With revenues falling by years and the impact of epidemic, its owner Leslie Wexner, is considering a ‘potential sale’. Before that, VS had experienced two booms. The first was when its founder, Raymond, opened a store that sells women underwear to men in 1977. He earned $500,000 first year. But it did not last long, a sales bottleneck occurred. Its strategy of making men its main customers led to women could not accept it, and there were limited number of male customers. After 1982, Raymond sold VS to Wexner, VS’s sales model focuse ..read more

 When people browsing the news in finance, the title with an unbelievable mount of money can always catches their eyes, for example: ‘Stanhope merges with FWM to create $24.2bn wealth manager’ And people could see that: London-based Stanhope runs $13bn in assets under management and oversees the investments of the Duchy of Lancaster, the £538m portfolio of property and financial assets owned by the Queen (Flood, 2020). “People in finance just have so many money” They might say something like this. The same thing happened to me, when the first time my relatives and mates know about that I ..read more