The ESG Investing: Setting Standards & Conducting Analysis course provides students with basic knowledge of traditional financial products with some fundamental concepts to help better define what ESG is, including the rationale behind its inception, and how it has developed. Through the series of video, webinar, and reading modules in this course, you鈥檒l learn how to identify and describe the basic principles underpinning the 鈥淓鈥, 鈥淪鈥 and 鈥淕鈥 in ESG, as well as obtain a brief background of ESG鈥檚 origins and evolution. You should also acquire insights into certain global and domestic goals and frameworks that drive and support issuers鈥 ESG agendas for economic, financial, and ethical purposes, as well as learn how to examine and construct different investment strategies aligned with investment returns, such as negative/exclusionary screening and integration. You should also gain a clearer view of how businesses form their ESG strategies, as well as some of the risks they face, and how they may be mitigated.