Sustainable finance

The film The Big Short about the run-up to the financial crisis again raises the question: "What if it had been Lehman Sisters?"

What role do rewards and incentives play in influencing safety performance? 

During a Value Roadmapping workshop Polle-Tobias Taminiau offers MBV MIF BA investors and entrepreneurs insights into assessing the risks of an innovative start-up and making it "investor-ready."

Cooperative banks should not only ensure the influence of their members at the legal and judicial levels but should also ensure that they are visibly represented at various levels of the governance structure.

Only firms under a high peer pressure notice reduced firm risks when committing to corporate social responsibility.

A recent study by Yijing Wang and Guido Berens shows that the financial stakeholders think positively about the legal CSR, indifferently about the Philanthropic CSR, whereas negatively about the ethical CSR related to communities or the environment.

To ensure that CSR has a positive effect on a company’s financial performance, a controller should be in charge of developing this strategy.

Dirk Brounen discusses the financial added value of energy efficiency during this lecture by Building Holland.

Investors make social responsible investments profit.

In recent years, some firms have started disclosing Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) reports. 

Do institutional investors need to become long term investors again? Weren't they already?

Research on attitudes towards socially and environmentally responsible investment.

On 1 Februari 2012, a group of over a 100 people of the European finance and investment community gathered in the Symphony Hall in Amsterdam for the official launch of knowledge portal FSinsight. They were welcomed by Sjoerd van Keulen, Chairman Holland Financial Centre (HFC), one of FSinsight’s initiating organizations. Keynote speakers Mark Lynas and Lloyd Kurtz offered provocative insights into the future of financing sustainability, then answered questions from the audience during a brief round-table facilitated by Piet Eichholtz. They were followed by Dutch Minister of Economic Affairs, Agriculture and Innovation Maxime Verhagen, who declared the sustainable finance portal officially open.