ESG Ratings Are Worse Than You Think!

Thought Leadership Webinar: ESG ratings seemingly offer a simple solution to a very complex problem -  gauging the ESG quality of a firm. Yet, it would be more sensible to use the term “simplistic." They have so many flaws that ESG rating users should probably start taking them with a grain of salt.
 
  Date:
October 11, 2023

  Time:
10:00 - 11:00 a.m. EDT
3:00 - 4:00 p.m. BST

  Presented By:
Kornelia Fabisik, CFA, PRM
Assistant Professor of Finance, University of Bern

 Session Length:
60 minutes

 

About This Webinar


The webinar will cover all major issues (some of them not yet publicly known) that each user of ESG ratings should be aware of:

  • Issues arising from the anatomy of ESG ratings
  • Issues arising from the market with ESG ratings (oligopolistic market features)
  • Issues arising from the latest trends in the ESG rating design
  • Issues arising from ESG data backfilling
  • Issues arising from ESG rating selling practices
  • Issues arising from the raw ESG data quality
  • Issues arising from the incentives in the ESG ratings industry and the pay model

We will also cover the future of ESG investing and talk about sustainable investor types, the trade-off between maximizing firm value and implementing other objectives, effects of divestment, and the fact that “looking green” is not the same as “being green.”

About Our Expert  

  
 
 

Kornelia Fabisik, CFA, PRM is an Assistant Professor of Finance at the University of Bern. ESG ratings are her current research expertise. More broadly, her research is focused on empirical corporate finance, corporate governance, and sustainable finance. She is a recipient of the 2021 Lamfalussy Research Fellowship from the European Central Bank (ECB) as well as a Research Affiliate at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). In 2022 she received the Rising Star Award from the International Corporate Governance Network (ICGN).

Kornelia's research was published in the Journal of Financial Economics (JFE) and presented at conferences such as the American Finance Association (AFA), Western Finance Association (WFA), European Finance Association (EFA), and SFS Cavalcade North America. Her expertise on ESG ratings is also in demand by the European Commission.

Kornelia is a PRM holder and a CFA charterholder.

 
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When
10/11/2023 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Eastern Daylight Time
Where
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