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Considering the Risk From Future Carbon Prices: The S&P Carbon Price Risk Adjusted Index Series
02 Sep 2018
Country or region: Asia Pacific (Overall)
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S&P Dow Jones Indices launched the S&P Carbon Price Risk Adjusted Indices to embed future carbon price risk into today’s index constituents, an example of the broader move toward incorporating ESG considerations in asset management. ......Statistics
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- Accounting
Topics covered in this category include: accounting practices and treatment; cash flow assessment; application and analysis of financial accounting; financial reporting and transparency; disclosure trends; value and interpretation of financial and non-financial disclosures; triple-bottom line; non-financial reporting; sustainability reporting; relevance of financial reporting performance measures; financial ratio analysis and techniques; definitions of profitability; audit function; importance of auditing; characteristics of auditing; factors impacting the auditing role.
116 - Accounting Policy
Topics in this category include: rationale for accounting policy choice; impact of changes in accounting policy choice; process of standard-setting; impact of regulation on accounting policy choice; trends in accounting policy; assessments of different accounting policy choices; accounting policy regimes; objectives of accounting policy; fundamentals of policy choice; disclosure of accounting policy; influences on accounting policy choice.
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- Alternative Assets
Topics covered by this category include alternative investments; bankruptcy assets; cash flow products; characteristics of alternative assets; closely held companies; commodities; distressed securities; hedge funds; inactively traded securities; insurance; investment firms; oil and gas resources; precious assets; private equity; real estate; types of alternative assets; venture capital.138
- Behavioral Finance
Topics covered by this category include: behavioral biases; individual investor behavioral biases; institutional investor decision making; investor thinking styles; limits to arbitrage; neuroeconomics; prospect theory (and other related behavioral and psychological theories).108
- Career Development 4
- Corporate Finance
Topics covered under this category include: business risk; capital investment decisions; corporate restructuring; dividend policy; financial risk; fundamental concerns and issues; investment banking; long-term financial policy and implications; mergers and acquisitions; short-term financial policy and implications.160
- Currency
Topics covered in this category include: arbitrage; assessment of currency benefits/disadvantages; cash flows and currency; characteristics of currency shifts; cross-rate movements; efficiency of bid/ask spreads; FX carry trades; FX derivative instruments; impact of currency changes; liquidity influences; management of currency in the portfolio.44
- Derivatives
Topics covered in this category include: characteristics of derivative instruments; credit derivative instrument; credit derivative markets; forward and futures instruments; forward and futures markets; option instruments; options market; alternative derivative issues; swaps and swap instruments; types of derivative instruments.60
- Economics
Topics covered in this category include: aggregate demand; aggregate supply; business cycles; economic development; economic growth; firm and organizational structure; government regulation; inflation; international capital flows; international trade; market forces (of demand and supply); measuring national statistics; microeconomics; monetary system; open economy macroeconomics; relationship of economic activity to investment.252
- Equity Investments
Topics covered by this category include: application of fundamental analysis; application of technical analysis; characteristics of the market; characteristics of securities; equity market return analysis; equity market valuation; fundamental analysis hybrid investment vehicles; special applications of analysis (fundamental and/or technical); technical analysis; types of equity market; types of equity securities.588
- ESG
Topics covered by this category include: board structure and composition; characteristics of good governance; defining governance; environmental, social and governance (ESG) practices; firm and national governance; governance regulations and reforms; governance reforms; governance regimes; impediments to and of governance; implementation of governance practices.297
- Ethics
Topics covered in this category include:changing views to ethics; characteristics of ethical behavior; defining ethical behavior; ethical practices; ethical standards; industry ethics; investor expectations on ethics; legal ramifications; limitations of ethics; market ethics; national versus international ethical behavior; role of education; whistleblowing; workplace ethics.181
- Financial Analysis
Topics covered in this category include: accounting standards development; accounting for and analysis of short-term and long-term assets; analysis of derivatives and hedging; auditing standards development; business combination accounting; characteristics of the reporting system; debt accounting; financial instruments; financial reporting quality; impact off-balance-sheet assets and liabilities; principal financial statements; ratio and financial analysis.500
- Financial Policy
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- Fixed Income
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Topics covered by this category include: critiques of procedures and techniques in conducting fundamental analysis; case studies applying fundamental analysis; evolving patterns in measuring intrinsic value; qualitative and/or quantitative factors relevant to fundamental analysis; practitioner reports using fundamental analysis; assessment of macroeconomic factors employed in fundamental analysis; discussion and evaluation of company-specific factors utilized in fundamental analysis; reports based on fundamental analysis of a specific firm; examples of the utilization of fundamental analysis; methods for determining security valuation.
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- Infrastructure Finance 14
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Topics covered in this category include: active management; asset allocation; assessing investment strategies; CAPM; characteristics of investment products; decision-making process; firm types; investment management specialties; investment products; passive management; performance measurement; risk management; types of investment strategies.555
- Investor Education 964
- Macroeconomics
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- Market Integrity
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- Other
Topics not otherwise covered by the main category listings and their respective descriptions. Use of this category should be limited and only if item clearly is distinctive and falls outside the descriptions for all other categories.
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- Private Wealth Management
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- Regulation
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- Regulatory changes 42
- Technical Analysis
Topics covered in this category include: analysis of statistics employed to analyze market activity based on prices and volume; suitability and relevance of charts; critique and assessment of technical indicators; practitioner reports based on use of technical analysis; emerging/newly developed technical approaches, tools and methods; methods for identifying patterns; success/failure of technical analysis; theory of technical analysis; pros and cons of technical analysis.
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- Wealth Planning 24
- Islamic Finance 7