SUSTAINABLE FINANCE
INVESTING - BANKING - REAL ESTATE - GOVERNANCE
In the media
The Power of benchmarking: GRESB comes of Age
Top1000funds.com
The Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark (GRESB), co-founded by researchers from ECCE and Maastricht University's Finance Department were featured in a recent article from Top1000funds.com. The article discusses GRESB's fifth anniversary as sustainable real estate benchmark as well as benchmarking opportunities in new asset classes.
Jeroen Derwall talks about sustainable investing on RTl television
RTL Z
Jeroen Derwall participated in the Robeco Sustainability Debate (in Dutch) on RTL Z on November 20, 2013. Together with Marleen Janssen from DSM, he discussed the stock market performance of sustainable companies and those of sustainability laggards.
ZEIT online quotes research from ECCE members
ZEIT Online
Studies from ECCE researchers were mentioned in the article "Die Umwelt muss warten" in the German newspaper Zeit Online - Wirtschaft: Corporate Environmental Management and Credit Risk by Rob Bauer and Daniel Hann, Employee Well-Being, Firm Leverage, and Bankruptcy Risk by Patrick van Wijmeren en Jeroen Derwall.
Al Gore cites ECCE members Bauer and Hann in Wall Street Journal
Wall Street Journal
Dr Daniel Hann (FINANCE) and Prof. Dr Rob Bauer (FINANCE; Corporate Environmental Management and Credit Risk) were quoted in an article by Al Gore in the Wall Street Journal on 14 December. "A Manifesto for Sustainable Capitalism - How businesses can embrace environmental, social and governance metrics".
Jaap Bos appeared in ZEMBLA TV broadcast "Handel in honger"
VARA Zembla
Jaap Bos appeared in the National television series ZEMBLA to talk about speculative behavior in food markets - such as commodity future markets - and their impact on food prices. The broadcast can be viewed from the website of VARA (in Dutch).
