Overview:
- Credits:
- 7.5
- Level:
- 4
- Semester:
- Spring
- Subject:
- Finance
- School:
- Business
- Coordinator:
- Dr SIQI LIU
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Curricular information is subject to change
At the end of the module, students should be able to demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of:
- The relevance of sustainability issues to business and therefore to the financial sector
- The evolving sustainable finance policy and regulatory landscape
- What sustainable finance means in practice across banking, investment and insurance, key stakeholders, financial instruments and tools within each sector, the response of each sector as a whole and best practice financial institutions
- Understand results from academic papers, reports and a wide variety of literature on sustainable finance.
- The ESG corporate reporting ecosystem, with a high-level overview of how financial stakeholders utilise this information and the challenges associated with that.
- Write papers and reports to a high standard and quality on the current and future issues relating to sustainable finance in theory and practice.
Student Effort Type | Hours |
---|---|
Lectures | 30 |
Autonomous Student Learning | 130 |
Total | 160 |
Not applicable to this module.
Description | Timing | Component Scale | % of Final Grade | ||
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Essay: Individual essay assignment c.1,500 words - topical essay titles to be provided by the Lecturer | Coursework (End of Trimester) | n/a | Graded | No | 40 |
Group Project: ESG Investing in Practice - Lecturer to provide 2 ESG funds to compare & contrast. Presentations should be c. 10 slides/15 mins long. Presentations will be delivered during class each week from Wk 7. | Throughout the Trimester | n/a | Graded | No | 40 |
Assignment: Complete 2x short online courses on the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) and record a presentation comparing TCFD disclosures from two (non-FS) corporates in same industry. | Week 3 | n/a | Graded | No | 20 |
Resit In | Terminal Exam |
---|---|
Summer | Yes - 2 Hour |
• Feedback individually to students, on an activity or draft prior to summative assessment
• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
• Group/class feedback, post-assessment
• Peer review activities
Feedback is given to students on their group presentation and report and individually on their presentation and their term paper. Students also peer review each other's presentations.
Name | Role |
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Ms Ann Shiels | Lecturer / Co-Lecturer |