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ESG Valuation Considerations – Top Down or Bottom Up?

Value Scope

Intangible asset valuation concepts can and should be applied to unique ESG cash flows. 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.

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ESG A Valuation Framework

Value Scope

How do you justify making substantial investments and fundamental changes to corporate structures and culture without empirical evidence that it will make a direct impact on shareholder value, total shareholder return, net present value, and individual rates of return? . Using Alpha, however, it could be done.