Beyond the ESG Portfolio: How Wall Street Can Help Democracies Survive

For advisors and managers of socially responsible and emerging markets investor portfolios—be confident that the ESG investments you choose for your clients need to also support democracy Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG) investing is rapidly increasing in popularity, especially among younger investors who are rapidly building wealth. In order to stay competitive, professional investors need to ensure that so-called ESG investments are actually doing good—not always an easy task in a world where messaging often can’t be trusted. Beyond the ESG Portfolio defines democracy standards based on three prominent reporting agencies, provides best practices for investing in ways that promote democracy, and delivers cautionary tales to help readers learn how to avoid funding autocracies. Readers will come away with a better sense of the dangers and opportunities in the “governance” element of ESG investing, and will armed with tools to make better ESG investing choices.

•Former head of the Latin America economics team at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Buscaglia was ranked number-one in the Institutional Investor rankings in the Latin America economics and Argentina categories in 2015

•Buscaglia previously served as chief economist for Latin America at Citibank and for the Southern Cone countries at Citibank

•Buscaglia is regularly featured in top business publications, including Bloomberg, Reuters, The Economist, and Financial Times, as one of the foremost voices in emerging markets