The convergence of financial and societal value - and what it means for businesses

It is time to act now

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It is only in recent years that financial markets and society more generally fully understood the broader positive and negative externalities that businesses can create as a result of their activities. Before this, a lack of general awareness resulted in the absence of a pricing mechanism enabling the 'internalisation' of these externalities preventing their measure from being priced into market value.

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