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Responsible and Sustainable Finance

This course equips students with the knowledge and skills necessary to engage and pursue careers in responsible investing and sustainable finance. The learning activities spline together both a financial market perspective of responsible investing and essential sustainable enterprise business models.

In addition to investigating how sustainability can be integrated into the decision-making, students will critically evaluate the role of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) factors in business management, investment analysis, and portfolio construction.

Specific topics include evaluation of ESG factors, prioritising sustainability in business strategy, and comparisons of different sustainable finance instruments, analysing environmental and social impact of sustainable investing, and communicating the benefits and challenges of sustainable finance to investors, stakeholders, and communities.

Exam info and full course description

Exam info and full course description can be found in the course catalogue.

Admission Requirements

Course specific:

To apply for the course, you must have passed a Bachelor's degree in Business Economics, Business Administration, or an equivalent degree.

General:

Exchange Students: nomination from your home university

Freemovers: documentation for English Language proficiency

You can read more about the admission here.

Lecturer

Dan Daugaard

dan.daugaard@utas.edu.au

Academic profile

Dan Daugaard is an Associate Professor at University of Tasmania. Dan’s industry experience, prior to academia, shapes and informs his teaching and research philosophies. While managing institutional investment portfolios, he developed innovative investment products including one of Australia's first environmental superannuation funds.