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ESG A Valuation Framework

Value Scope

How do you justify making substantial investments and fundamental changes to corporate structures and culture without empirical evidence that it will make a direct impact on shareholder value, total shareholder return, net present value, and individual rates of return? . Do ESG programs impact firm value?

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Data Update 1 for 2025: The Draw (and Danger) of Data

Musings on Markets

For the segment of my data that is macroeconomic, my primary source is FRED, the data set maintained by the Federal Reserve Bank , but I supplement with other data that I found online, including NAIC for bond spread data and Political Risk Services (PRS) for country risk scores. Beta & Risk 1. Book Value Multiples 3.