Sustainable Finance General Instructions – Please read carefully You are require

Sustainable Finance
General Instructions – Please read carefully
You are required to complete the assessment outlined below and submit your completed final document. Your grade will be based 100% on this final document.
The paper must have a clear structure and must include:
• Cover page (do not indicate your name – student number only)
• Table of contents (Table of tables/figures if necessary)
• A subsection for each of the six questions of the assessment – no more than 4500
(+/- 10%) words in total
• References – at a Master’s level you must use in-text citations to support your arguments and any work cited must appear in the References list at the end of the work

Final Assessment – 4,500 words Questions:
1. Case Study: Oddo Securities (1500 words) (HBS Case 9-111-085) (25%) (ILO 1, 2)
a. Prepare a brief industry overview of ESG-priorities for global telecommunications based
on the SASB standard, describing at least 6 specific metrics to measure the ESG-priorities.
b. Complement the SASB ESG-priority analysis with brief info from (European) telecommunications bodies e.g. the European Telecommunications Network Operators’ Association (https://www.etno.eu/home/working-groups/overview), the Global e- Sustainability Initiative (http://gesi.org).
c. Include a listing of the ESG-priorities as stated by British Telecom OR France Telecom (info from the latest annual reports and websites).
d. Include initiatives and issues which are being reported by non-profit stakeholders.
e. Critically evaluate variances between the ESG-priorities listed in the case and those listed above (part of the variance is due to the fact that the case was written several years ago).
f. Do you require further information to make a decision? If so, what information and why is it required?
g. Assume that you must make a decision based on the available data – explain your recommendation.
2. Argue against the use of ESG to value companies (750 Words) (15%) (ILO 2, 3, 4)
Provide 2 well-founded arguments – including citations from at least three academic papers per argument – to support the case against the use of ESG criteria in the company valuation process.
3. Sustainable soft commodities (750 Words) (15%) (ILO 1, 2, 3, 4) Choose one of the following soft commodities:
1. Wild caught seafood 2. Soy
3. Beef
and briefly explore the key ESG-priorities, as well as measures being taken to address these priorities. Cite challenges to implement ESG-priorities – operational and investor-related. Information should include insights from industry associations, companies, non-profit associations, and financial institutions.
4. Green Real Estate Investment Trusts (750 Words) (15%) (ILO 1, 2)
Critically evaluate a green REIT (Real Estate Investment Trusts), briefly describing its activity, its financing model, government programs and/or regulations it uses to complement its financial performance, the metrics used to measure its environmental/social impact, the expected impact of environmental/social criteria on the financial performance, and information on the actual financial performance of the REIT.
5. Impact Investing (750 Words) (15%) (ILO 2, 3)
Critically analyze an Asian impact investing fund, briefly describing its operating model, the financial model (below-market and/or market-based returns), the metrics used to measure environmental/social impact, and the financial performance of the fund against benchmarks.
The remaining 15% of the final mark will be dependent on the quality of Harvard referencing as well as the general presentation of your paper.
The submission should be in a report format, being clearly structured using headings, sub- headings etc. The word count is from the introduction to the end of the conclusion section.
The submission should be in MS Word