Taking advantage of the upsurge in sustainable investment, the ESG Forum of the Sustainable Investment Research Center of Chung Cheng University debuts
Nov 18, 2022
ESG sustainable investment continues to create an upsurge. More and more companies incorporate ESG into their business evaluation benchmarks. The School of Management of Chung Cheng University is not far behind. It established the Amundi Sustainable Investment Research Center of Chung Cheng University last year to promote courses, Forums, scholarships, student internships, research programs, etc., and let the concept of sustainable investment take root. On the 18th, the center held the second ESG Forum in Kaohsiung, inviting students from colleges and universities across the country to participate, hoping to lead young students to keep up with the trend of the times, learn ESG knowledge before entering the workplace, and increase employment competitiveness.
With time, the general public's attention to ESG issues has continued to increase, which shows that the overall society pays more attention to the attitude and investment of enterprises in facing social responsibilities, and ESG management has become a part that enterprises cannot ignore. Chung Cheng University's Amundi Fengyu Huili Sustainable Investment Research Center stated that the center expects to become Taiwan's leading ESG investment and financial innovation research center, not only creating a new blueprint for Taiwan's ESG investment, financial education promotion, and industry-university cooperation but also promoting Taiwan's sustainable development investment and financial innovation talent cultivation plan.
In this ESG forum, the organizer invited Yan-Ting Lin, chairman of Changwei International Co., Ltd., and Jia-Yu Liu, director of the fixed-income investment department of Fengyu Huili Securities, to focus on the practice of ESG in the sightseeing fish industry and the green bond market to external ESG development trends and context. In addition, the forum also introduced the connotation of ESG and related principles, norms, and knowledge framework, and analyzed the innovative strategies of enterprises to implement ESG. CCU Sustainable Investment Research Center pointed out that to cultivate future managers, students can be exposed to ESG-related concepts and knowledge during the cultivation period, and understand how international investment institutions use relevant data to measure the development of enterprises in ESG.
Ri-Kang Huang, general manager of Fengyu Huili, and Yi-Jing Li, director of the marketing planning department, were also invited to participate in this forum. According to CCU Sustainable Investment Research Center, Fengyu Asset Management is the largest asset management company in Europe and ranks among the top ten asset management companies in the world.