1. Impact investing is not ESG -- Towards a universal framework for impact investing -- 2. Future Capital: The Importance of Wealth Management for Sustainable Finance -- 3. The Future Wealth of Nations -- 4. Environmental information disclosure quality, institutional pressure, and the cost of debt: Evidence from China’s heavy polluters -- 5. Custom ESG Indexing can challenge popularity of ETFs -- 6. Investment in Africa -- 7. Sustainability across different asset classes - integration in a multi-asset portfolio.

This book explores sustainable wealth management and the challenges asset managers face in times of ecological crises and climate change. It deals with portfolio engineering, combining risk and impact, transitioning from environmental social governance (ESG) concepts to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) and the different role of the intermediaries and players in the financial markets. It provides researchers, scholars, academics, and policy makers an interdisciplinary approach to redirecting capital towards sustainability.