The Sustainable Investor Responsible, Impactful, and Values-Driven Investing Strategies and Practices for Financial Professionals

Build sustainable, responsible portfolios that reflect the values of your retail clients In The Sustainable Investor: Responsible, Impactful, and Values-Driven Investing Strategies and Practices for Financial Professionals, the Founder and Director of Sustainable Investing at Earth Equity Advisors, Peter Krull, delivers a timely and insightful discussion of sustainable investing and responsible portfolio construction. In the book, you'll learn how to help your retail clients build solutions-based, sustainable, responsible, and impact-driven portfolios that actually reflect their values. You'll also learn how to avoid the greenwashed, “less-bad” investments so commonly found in the products and portfolios of major Wall Street firms seeking to use ESG primarily as a growth vehicle. The book also offers: A history of the Socially Responsible Investing movement, including its descendants: Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Investing and Sustainable, Responsible, and Impact (SRI) Investing Why labels like ESG and SRI matter, what they mean, and how they're different An explanation of how major Wall Street firms hijacked the ESG investing philosophy and turned it into a vehicle for asset accumulation A perfect resource for financial advisors, planners, and other finance professionals, The Sustainable Investor is the ideal roadmap to values-driven investing strategies that meets the needs of retail investors who seek to make a positive difference in the world with their money.