Sustainable Investing Glossary

3D Investing

Active ownership

Artificial intelligence

Best in class

Biodiversity

Carbon allowances credits and offsets

Carbon capture and storage

Carbon footprint

Carbon pricing

Circular economy

Climate Action Tracker

Climate change

Climate clocks

Climate transition benchmarks

COP28

Corporate controversies

Corporate governance

Corporate responsibility

Corruption definition

Country Sustainability Ranking

Decarbonization

Definitions of sustainability

Deforestation

Divesting

Double materiality

Embodied carbon

Engagement

Enhanced engagement

Environment

Environmental Footprint Reporting

Environmental Impact Monitoring Tool

ESG definition

ESG Integration

EU Green Bonds Standard

EU Taxonomy

European Green Deal

Exclusion

Food sustainability

Fossil fuel alternatives

Gender equality

Gig economy

Global warming

Green hydrogen

Green versus grey hydrogen

Greenhouse effect

Greenhouse gas emissions | GHG emissions

Green, social and sustainability (GSS) bonds

Greenwashing

Health and nutrition

Impact investing

Integrated reporting

Materiality

Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)

Negative screening

Net Zero Carbon pledge and initiative

Net zero emissions

Net zero investments

Paris Agreement

Paris-aligned benchmarks

PFAS

Positive screening

Principal Adverse Impact indicators

Principles for Responsible Investment

Product as a service

Renewable energy investing

Resource sustainability

Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions

Shareholder resolutions

Sin stocks

Social sustainability

Socially responsible investing

Stewardship code

Stranded assets

Sustainability reporting

Sustainable companies

Sustainable Development Goals - SDG

Sustainable Finance Action Plan

Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation

Sustainable supply chains

Sustainable technology

Task Force on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD)

Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD)

The Just Transtion

Thematic investing

Thermal coal exposure

Triple bottom line

UN Global Compact

Voting

Water pollution

Water sustainability

World’s most corrupt country

Quantitative Investing Glossary

Active management

Anomaly

Behavioral finance

Capital Asset Pricing Model

Data mining

Diversification over factors

Downside risk

Efficient (advanced) approach

Enhanced indexing

Evidence-based investing

Factor investing

Factor premium

Factor optimization approach

Factor-tilt approach

Gradient descent

LASSO regression

Low volatility anomaly

Low volatility ETF

Low volatility factor

Low volatility strategies

Momentum factor

Monitoring factor exposure

Multi-factor model

Norwegian Government Pension Fund

Passive investing

Quality-factor

Quantitative research

Random forest

Risk due diligence approach

Risk factor

Shapley values

Sharpe ratio

Size factor

Smart beta or alternative beta

Systematic approach

Traditional versus factor allocation

Unrewarded risks

Value factor

Volatility

Fixed Income Glossary

Accrued interest

Aggregate bonds

Basis points

Bond duration

Bond index

Bond maturity

Bond rating

Bond spread

Bond yield

Bunds

CoCo bonds

Corporate bonds

Coupon rate

Credit default swaps

Credit income

Credit market

Creditworthiness

Credit spread

Crossover credit

Debt Service Coverage Ratio

Emerging markets debt (EMD)

Financial institution bonds

Floating rate bond

Gilts

Government bonds

High Yield Bonds

Hybrid bonds

Inverted yield curve

Investment grade bonds

Interest rate risk

Maturity date

Subordinated bonds

Sovereign bonds

Total return

Treasury bonds

Yield curve

Yield to maturity