1st Edition
Fiduciary Law and Responsible Investing In Nature’s trust
By Benjamin J. Richardson
Copyright 2013
352 Pages
by
Routledge
352 Pages
by
Routledge
352 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book is about fiduciary law’s influence on the financial economy’s environmental performance, focusing on how the law affects responsible investing and considering possible legal reforms to shift financial markets closer towards sustainability. Fiduciary law governs how trustees, fund managers or other custodians administer the investment portfolios owned by beneficiaries. Written for a... Read more
1. Responsible Investing in an Unsustainable World 2. The Influence of Responsible Investment 3. Fiduciary Finance Law 4. Fiduciary Law in Retail and Institutional Finance 5. Sovereign Wealth Funds 6. The Public Fiduciary: In Nature’s Trust
Biography
Professor Benjamin J. Richardson holds the Senior Canada Research Chair in Environmental Law and Sustainability at the University of British Columbia. His long-standing scholarship on socially responsible investing, sustainability and the financial economy includes the books Socially Responsible Investment Law (Oxford University Press, 2008) and Environmental Regulation through Financial Organizations (Kluwer, 2002).
