Foundations of ESG Investing: How ESG Affects Equity Valuation, Risk, and Performance
By Guido Giese, Linda-Eling Lee, D. Melas, Z. Nagy, Laura Nishikawa. Journal of Portfolio Management, 2019
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Many studies have focused on the relationship between companies with strong environmental, social, and governance (ESG) characteristics and corporate financial performance. However, these have often struggled to show that positive correlations—when produced—can in fact explain the behavior. The authors of this article provide a link between ESG information and the valuation and performance of companies, by examining three transmission channels within a standard discounted cash flow model—which they call the cash-flow channel, the idiosyncratic risk channel, and the valuation channel. They tested each of these transmission channels using MSCI ESG Ratings data and financial variables. This showed that companies’ ESG information was transmitted to their valuation and performance, both through their systematic risk profile (lower costs of capital and higher valuations) and their idiosyncratic risk profile (higher profitability and lower exposures to tail risk). The research suggests that changes in a company’s ESG characteristics may be a useful financial indicator. ESG ratings may also be suitable for integration into policy benchmarks and financial analyses. TOPICS: ESG investing, security analysis and valuation, risk management
Subfields: Finance, Marketing, Strategy and Management
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- Evaluation of strategic and financial variables of corporate sustainability and ESG policies on corporate finance performance (2021, neutral): “Giese et al. (2019).”
- ESG Importance for Long-Term Shareholder Value Creation: Literature vs. Practice (2021, positive): “Similarly, Henisz and McGlinch and Giese tested ESG correlation with the credit risk metric and confirmed that improved ESG performance can be linked to lower credit risk for companies [12,13].”