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ESG Investing Clearly Serves Pecuniary Interests

Reynolds Holding

Corporate Environmental and Social Impacts Affect the Broader Economy When a company’s problems create volatility in the price of its assets, investors term the problems as “idiosyncratic risks.” Another level of risk affects the volatility of an entire portfolio. 3°C by 2100. [25] Available at [link]. January 25, 2022). Choi, Mary C.

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Unbundling Climate Change Risk from ESG

Reynolds Holding

This is because mitigating climate change risk reduces systematic risk across a portfolio of diversified investments. The disruptions associated with various realizations of climate change risk will spread across the entire economy and thus across a diversified stock portfolio; climate change risk is systematic.

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Shadow SEC: The Value of an Independent SEC

Reynolds Holding

Strong empirical evidence shows the United States has a lower cost of equity capital than comparable countries and that this lower cost is attributable in part to an institutional design that protects the independence of securities regulators and assures strong enforcement. In the United States, the cost of capital is lower than elsewhere.