Kotaro Inoue Laboratory's student team second at Bloomberg Investment Contest 2022

A group of students from the laboratory of Professor Kotaro Inoue and Assistant Professor Yosuke Kimura at Tokyo Tech's School of Engineering have won second place in the Bloomberg ESG Investment Contest 2022, a contest for bachelor and graduate-level students on the theme of ESG investments. The finals, which included four teams, were held in Tokyo on October 25.

The Bloomberg ESG Investment Contest is held annually by Bloomberg, an economic and market information provider. This year's competition was the largest of its kind, with 324 participants and 61 teams from universities in Japan.

Tokyo Tech's runner-up team was a six-member group consisting of four 4th-year students and two 1st-year master's students from the Department of Industrial Engineering and Economics.

The student group received high marks for their highly original, creative ideas and persuasive presentation, which focused on a "shift to sustainable energy that is resilient to geopolitical risk." They quantified their ideas in a logical manner based on various previous studies and reflected their findings in their investment strategy. In particular, the investment strategy was responsive to changes in global attitudes toward ESG investment in the wake of the recent situation in Ukraine, and was evaluated as interesting and informative from the standpoint of various groups, including professional institutional investors.