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ESG Valuation Considerations – Top Down or Bottom Up?

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Click to Download: ESG Valuation Considerations – Top Down or Bottom Up? This work can be used to reconcile and support an adjustment to the CAPM, then the WACC, via Alpha and Beta. Using Alpha, however, it could be done. Alpha is unsystematic risk, unique to the firm undergoing valuation. Executive Summary.

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ESG A Valuation Framework

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Click to Download: ESG A Valuation Framework. As companies continue to legitimately integrate ESG into business strategy, the ability to achieve “alpha,” which is an excess return or performance above a codified index or peer group, might become more difficult to do. Using Alpha, however, it could be done.