EU Action Plan for Sustainable Growth New Impacts and Opportunities for Asset Managers

This book examines the new impacts and opportunities for asset managers based on the EU Action Plan for Sustainable Growth, which creates new standards, frameworks, and definitions for redirecting capital for sustainable growth. This approach disrupts the existing sustainability practices in asset management and requires asset managers to combine understanding of new portfolio engineering approaches with environmental, social, and governance (ESG) logistics and the EU taxonomy. The implications of this transformation affect theoretical models and current forms of asset management. Providing frameworks and tools to tackle the new requirements to create new business opportunities, this book is valuable for asset management professionals, practitioner, scholars, and students.

Changing the Game The EU is redirecting capital flows to sustainable purposes with its EU Action Plan.- Regulatory Basics.- Developing Investment Standards in the EU.- Impact of the EU Taxonomy on Taxonomy compliant Product Development in the Financial Industry.- Product Innovation in the Financial Industry in response to the EU Action Plan and Green Deal.

Karen Wendt is the President of Sustainable Finance (Cham, Switzerland) and CEO of ECCOS Impact GmbH (Cham, Switzerland). She is also a serial entrepreneur, scientist, and co-editor of the Sustainable Finance book series at Springer. She advises companies on sustainability and is proven expert in impact investing, international management, sustainable finance, and strategy development. She is currently conducting research on social entrepreneurship, stock exchanges and portfolio engineering.