Handbook on Responsible Investment Across Asset Classes

This guide helps investors incorporate responsible investment methods into their investment mandate; identifies and evaluates opportunities for responsible investment; and coordinates the vocabulary and metrics used to measure social and environmental outcomes. It will be useful to institutional investors, including foundations, who wish to address the financial implications of long-term environmental, social, and governance (ESG) risks and opportunities in their investment mandate. Responsible investment may offer tools to enhance returns by better incorporating long-term ESG concerns into investment decision-making as well as tools to identify environmentally and/or socially beneficial investments that provide market rates of return when compared to widely accepted benchmarks.