COR2032. Environmental, Social Governance (ESG) Trends and Why its Important

Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) aspects continue to be a priority for institutional investors' when judging risk-adjusted return profiles.  The real estate and infrastructure asset classes are subject to a range of forward physical and transitional risks, highlighting the need for structured, non-financial data. Learn how global investors are uncovering these insights while driving change in the real estate and infrastructure investment classes.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand how capital market forces can bring intensified focus on ESG as a measure of investment risk and return
• Discover how portfolio-level ESG assessments such as GRESB drive top-down attention to building performance
• Recognize how asset-level consumption data supports the structured non-financial data needs important to investors and other stakeholders