LEV DYNKIN, PHD is the founder and Global Head of the Quantitative Portfolio Strategy (QPS) Group at Barclays Research. Lev and QPS joined Barclays in 2008 from Lehman Brothers, where they had been a part of Global Research since 1987 and helped launch the Lehman fixed income indices. QPS was ranked #1 in its category in the US and Europe in the 2023 Institutional Investor Global Fixed Income Research survey and was top-ranked for the past 15 years. Lev and QPS co-authored 4 books: Systematic Investing in Credit, Wiley, 2021; A Decade of Duration Times Spread (DTS), Barclays, 2015; Quantitative Credit Portfolio Management, Wiley, 2011; Quantitative Management of Bond Portfolios, Princeton Univ. Press, 2007. ARIK BEN DOR, PHD is a Managing Director and a QPS member since 2004. In addition to originating innovative fixed income research for over two decades, he initiated and oversaw QPS extension into equity markets, and the development of cross-market signals between equity and credit markets. Arik co-authored 3 QPS books on quantitative investing, 30 articles in leading industry journals, and is a member of the Journal of Portfolio Management and Journal of Fixed Income editorial boards. He holds a PhD in Finance from the Kellogg Business School at Northwestern University, and worked at Lehman Brothers and Morgan Stanley prior to Barclays. ALBERT DESCLÉE is a Managing Director in Barclays QPS based in London, and is responsible for its European activities. He advises investors on all aspects of portfolio construction. He was ranked 1st in Institutional Investor European Fixed Income Research Survey in the Quantitative Analysis Category from 2019 to 2023. He joined Barclays in 2008 from Lehman Brothers. He graduated from the Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium) and obtained an MBA from INSEAD. JINGLING GUAN, PHD is a Director in Barclays QPS. She works on research related to systematic investing in both equities and credit, including signal development (especially cross-asset-class signals), portfolio construction, and risk hedging. She joined Barclays in 2015. Jingling holds a PhD in Finance from Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. JAY HYMAN, PHD is a Managing Director in Barclays QPS. He advises investors and publishes research on all aspects of portfolio structuring and risk management, across multiple asset classes. He has co-authored four books with QPS colleagues. Jay joined Barclays in 2008 from Lehman Brothers, where he worked on quantitative portfolio strategies since 1991. Jay holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University. SIMON POLBENNIKOV, PHD is a Managing Director in Barclays QPS. He is responsible for empirical research of all quantitative aspects of the investment process including systematic strategies and investment styles in fixed income, benchmark customization, tactical allocation, and hedging. Simon joined Barclays in 2008 from Lehman Brothers. Simon holds a PhD in Empirical Finance from Tilburg University, Netherlands.

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Authored by members of the Quantitative Portfolio Strategy Group at Barclays Research--a recognized authority in the field--Measuring ESG Effects in Systematic Investing is entirely based on their original research. The authors take no views on the merits of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) based investing, but rather take a purely quantitative approach to measuring its impact on the performance and valuation of bond and equity portfolios by applying consistent methodologies across the two markets.

The book is written in an intuitive yet quantitatively rigorous style. Its four parts address distinct aspects of ESG investing.

First, the authors address the seemingly simple question of how to measure ESG-related returns, and show that a direct comparison of sustainability indices to standard indices can give misleading results. They introduce a methodology for isolating the performance effect of ESG while matching all other risk dimensions of the underlying market and document the behavior of this premium in equities and bonds over time. The performance of this "best in class" ESG investing is contrasted with the exclusionary negative screening approach.

Next, the authors use the context of a systematic credit strategy based on proprietary signals for value, momentum and sentiment to test the effect of ESG constraints on portfolio alpha. They also examine how ESG constraints affect equity style factors: to what extent does the return profile of a constrained factor preserve the behavior of its original version?

In addition to evaluating ESG choices faced by investors, the book explores the implications of ESG-related activity by issuers. Do companies that hire for ESG-related positions more aggressively than their peers receive higher ESG ratings in subsequent years? Are corporations with improving ESG scores rewarded by increased valuations of their debt and equity? Does improved corporate governance lead to higher company profitability?

Finally, the authors address one of the key issues in the field: the lack of consensus on how ESG rankings should be formed. Given the dispersion in ESG scores across providers, how can investors form a consensus score? Does this disagreement among score providers have implications for future ESG returns? How does ESG labeling influence the mutual fund performance, fund flows and AUM?

Perfect for institutional investors, portfolio managers and hedge fund professionals, Measuring ESG Effects in Systematic Investing belongs on the bookshelves of all practitioners and academics involved in ESG strategies.

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Foreword xiii
C.S. Venkatakrishnan, Group Chief Executive Officer, Barclays

Preface xv
Jeff Meli, Global Head of Research, Barclays

Acknowledgements xvii

Introduction xix
Lev Dynkin, Global Head of Quantitative Portfolio Strategy, Barclays Research

Part One: Effect of ESG Constraints on Portfolio Performance and Valuation

Introduction to Part I 1

Chapter 1 How Do ESG Criteria Relate to Other Portfolio Attributes? 5

Chapter 2 Measuring the ESG Risk Premium: Credit Markets 19

Chapter 3 Measuring the ESG Risk Premium: Equity Markets 43

Chapter 4 Performance Impact of an ESG Tilt in Sovereign Bond Markets 77

Chapter 5 Effect of SRI-Motivated Exclusion on Performance of Credit Portfolios 115