Description:
In the face of the urgent global issue of climate change, this book, Climate-Conscious Investing: Portfolios Aligned with the Paris Accords, takes a deep dive into the intricacies and complexities of climate investing.
It explores climate investment themes, approaches, and processes and provides insights into constructing climate-conscious portfolios. The book also reviews successful climate-conscious investment cases, evolving policy developments, and regulatory changes and offers a glimpse into the future of climate-conscious investing.
This book stands out in financial literature for its innovative approach to integrating climate science with investment strategies. Unlike other books, it relies on meta-studies, ensuring that each conclusion drawn is up-to-date and deeply rooted in scientific consensus. This unique approach enhances the credibility of the investment advice and underscores the critical role of informed, science-based decision-making in addressing climate change through financial practices.
Climate-Conscious Investing is a must-read for investors, policymakers, asset managers, investees, regulators, civil society and academia, and anyone who recognizes the financial ecosystem's critical role in addressing climate change.
Brief description:
Dr. Zhong is the founder of Fundopedia. She is a former portfolio manager (PM) (strategy chief investment officer) at BlackRock, the world's largest asset management firm by assets under management (AUM). Before BlackRock, Dr. Zhong was a fund PM at UBS, the world's largest private bank by AUM. She started her career as a Wall Street analyst at Lehman Brothers.
Dr. Zhong has also been a subject-matter expert and consultant in asset management. The institutions she has actively provided advice since 2022 include McKinsey & Company, Boston Consulting Group, Bain & Company, Deloitte, PwC, and Ernst & Young. She is frequently invited to roundtable events and webcasts as a public speaker in the US and Asia Pacific.
Dr. Zhong published the books Alternatives Thinker: Endowment Investment Philosophy to Active Portfolio Management in 2013 and Strategies That Chinese Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Used to Attract Venture Capital in 2018.