Strategic Scaling is what we do!
There are many exciting things happening at CSP that we would like to share with you:
- We just incorporated CSP Singapore, a non-profit through which we accelerate our work in Asia! We are currently hiring a Managing Director and Head of Trainings. We are also in the process of founding a CSP satellite in California.
- We got recognition for our research and were quoted and interviewed by leading media and quoted by the Swiss federal government.
- Our Sustainable Investing in Wealth Management training for advisors and wealth managers is now open for registration.
- And although Omnicron is here, we like to stay positive and hope to start the New Year on a good note with a Kick-Off 2022 Event to toast to an impactful 2022 on January 24! In case Covid prevents us from meeting in person, we will host the event online and let you know. Anyhow, you are invited, please register here!
On behalf of the CSP Team, I wish you Happy Holidays and all the best for 2022!
Sincerely,
Prof. Dr. Falko Paetzold
Assistant Professor in Social Finance
at EBS University
Initiator and Managing Director
Center for Sustainable Finance and Private Wealth
at the University of Zurich
General Information
Help us find a Managing Director and a Head of Trainings for CSP Singapore!
CSP is expanding to Singapore and is looking for a Managing Director and a Head of Trainings! Are you interested in this role? Or do you know someone who would?
CSP Singapore has a unique and valuable position in an industry experiencing rapid transformation. The managing director of CSP´s newly-established non-profit, will play an integral role in shaping the development of the Asian sustainable finance ecosystem. As the head of trainings, you will play a vital role in developing and disseminating the right knowledge to the right people, to trigger action and move capital towards impact.
Apply now as our new Managing Director and a Head of Trainings and change the world with us! Or share the news with your network via LinkedIn.
Sustainable Investing for Wealth Managers Program now open for registrations
Level up your skills in sustainable investing together with driven peers in the Sustainable Investing in Wealth Management training on February 3–4, 2022. This two-days course for wealth managers and advisors takes place online, meaning that our reach and impact is global.
Check out the website and brochure and sign up while there is still space. In case you have any questions, please contact Anne Kellers to learn more.
Join us for a Kick-Off 2022 Apéro — January 24 at 6pm CET in Zurich
Please join us for a Kick-Off 2022 Apéro and toast with the CSP Team and the sustainable finance community, to an impactful 2022!
On this evening in the top of the tower of the University of Zurich, overlooking the city, we will summarize our 2021 highlights and provide an outlook on 2022: we are spreading our wings — expanding globally, broadening and deepening our research and training programs. Strategic Scaling, as we call it.
The President of the University of Zurich, Prof. Dr. Michael Schaepman, André Hoffmann, Vice Chair of Roche and early supporter of CSP and Thomas Vellacott, CEO WWF Switzerland, will join too and share their views with us.
If Covid prevents us from meeting in person, we will host an online event of about one hour that evening. We will keep you posted.
Research Update
Recognition for our research
CSP research got recognized — our academic paper “Can Investors Save the World?” is the #1 most read paper at the academic, peer-reviewed journal “Organization & Environment”! It is the basis for our successful “Investor’s Guide to Impact”. Additionally, the Swiss Federal government cited our guide in a report on climate and finance.
New research: Wealthy Private Investors and Socially Responsible Investing: The Influence of Reference Groups
“[…] it is critical for market participants to be highly aware of the specific social setting that their HNWI clients or constituents are in when they receive their messaging.”
In a new research paper David Risi, research professor at the Bern University of Applied Sciences and CSP researchers Falko Paetzold and Anne Kellers found that family members of Socially Responsible Investing-interested HNWIs often prioritize financial returns, while networks of SRI-interested HNWIs don’t really impose a standard of accountability on positive impact. In aggregate, the goal of financial returns often outweighs the goal of positive impact. The paper can be accessed here.
CSP in Media
Oatly learns that it’s NOT easy being green as CSP finds pathways through the ESG jungle
In a recent article published by Fortune, Julian unpacks the ESG conundrum through the Oatly case defined by high expectations, grave disappointments, and ambitious plans for fields of oat-gold. “ESG ratings are more in the nature of a court proceeding, where there’s a deliberation, where you can take in various forms of evidence, and then you make a call. You never know the ultimate truth,” says CSP’s Head of Research Julian Koelbel in the interview. The article dives into case Oatly, the accusations faced by the hottest vegan milk out there, and how the impact and sustainable investment world makes its way towards those ultimate ESG truths.
Can financial markets make up for sluggish climate politics?
That’s the question the Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ) recently asked in an article. Citing prominently research done by CSP, NZZ concludes that, while investors can contribute toward moving the world to a maximum of two degrees increase in temperature, many crucial questions on the impact of investments remain open.
What seems clear is that financial markets won’t save the world alone — not without clear policies that internalize the true costs of carbon emissions.
Our publications cited by NZZ:
