PRAISE FOR QUANTITATIVE METHODS FOR ESG FINANCE

"A timely and practical book that explains how to effectively adopt and incorporate ESG risk measurement and management, an issue currently facing both the investment and the issuer (corporate) communities. The topics covered will have broader applicability to financial intermediaries and regulatory agencies as well. This comprehensive work fills a vital gap on the quantitative side of ESG finance, where there is a growing critical need to harness the proliferation of newly available alternative data sources and for the associated quantitative techniques required to process and analyze this data."

-BRADFORD HU, Chief Risk Officer, Executive Vice President, State Street

"In what is a fairly nascent and rapidly evolving field, Shmatov and Castelli provide to finance practitioners a much-needed comprehensive reference of fundamental and technical aspects of ESG risk measurement and management."

-NICOLAS FRIES, CRO, Investment Risk, BNY Mellon

"Up-to-the minute, no-nonsense and uncommonly rigorous for its field."

- RICHARD ROBB, Professor of Professional Practice in International and Public Affairs, Columbia University

"Everyone talks about investing with ESG criteria, but there is a lot of confusion as to what exactly that means. This book is essential for understanding what an ESG strategy is and how you can get it right. Useful for both common investors and professionals, and also for supervisory authorities."

- MARIA TERESA COMETTO, Journalist, Author, contributor to Investment & Pensions Europe and Corriere della Sera