An Alternative Vision of Banking
Wed 13 Oct
|HSG Main Campus - Room 09-112
A practical example of institutional and academic collaboration between the HSG School of Finance and the Alternative Bank Switzerland


Time & Location
13 Oct 2021, 18:15 – 19:00 CEST
HSG Main Campus - Room 09-112, Dufourstrasse 50, 9000 St. Gallen, Switzerland
About the Event
We are thrilled to be welcoming Michael Diaz from the Alternative Bank Switzerland and Prof. Dr. Sebastian Utz from HSG School of Finance.
Prof. Dr. Utz will give a short introduction on the topic of sustainable investments and its differentiation to traditional investments. Mr. Diaz will then present us the vision of the Alternative Bank Switzerland and how it translates into practice. These presentations will be followed by a panel discussion which will also cover the topic of the HSG Impact Awards 2021 which both parties have worked on together recently. In this project, the factor of impact has been added to traditional portfolio theories which has been put into practice with the launch of the ABS sustainability fund.
Michael Diaz is member of the management board of Alternative Bank Switzerland and Head of Investments. ABS is the largest social bank in Switzerland. Mr. Diaz studied economics and applied ethics…