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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Responsible investing"”.
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Can individuals be influential in driving sustainable and responsible investing?
… their trustees to act in their best interests by investing responsibly. The research explores the various dynamics that are at play that explain individual behaviour and attitudes towards financial planning with regards to their retirement investments. The implications of my findings may have …
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SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE INVESTING AND FIRM PERFORMANCE: REVISITING THE EFFECT OF MATERIAL SUSTAINABILITY
The research examines the effect of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) metrics on return on sales (ROS), return on assets (ROA), and stock returns. It also identifies the challenges of past and future research in this area. The Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) introduced …
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Responsible Investing in South African Collective Investment Schemes: An Analysis of Performance
… private capital needs to be mobilised. Impact investing has the potential to bridge this gap, providing measurable real-world impact alongside financial performance. However, the empirical effect of impact investing on financial performance appears under researched. This study sought to …
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Socially Responsible Investing : a comparative analysis of environmental, social, governance, reputational and labor factors
Socially Responsible Investing (SRI) aims to deliver competitive investment returns while fostering social good. It aims achieves its objective by including a firm's corporate social performance (CSP) in its investment d s . I has giesgnfct momentum over the past few years and is poised to assume a …
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Responsible investing in Kenya: Linking the sophistication of financial markets in Kenya with the possible creation of a sustainability index
… of hurdles have kept Kenya off the mainstream Responsible Investing agenda. This has resulted in no Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) fund assets and none of the market players being signatories to the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investing (PRI). One of the building blocks to …
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South African asset manager perceptions on the integration of climate change risks into equity investment decision-making processes
The growing interest responsible investing strategies driven by bodies such as the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investing Initiative has resulted in issues such as climate change and its impact on investment portfolios becoming part of the asset management industry discourse. However, …
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Performance of Socially Responsible Investment Funds in South Africa
… how the risk-adjusted performance of Socially Responsible Investment (“SRI”) funds are affected by key events in South Africa, namely, the introduction of King IV and the introduction of socially responsible indices in South Africa, events and their impact on socially responsible investing in …
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Impact investing in South Africa: identifying the global and local forces shaping this emerging investment market
… pure financial return have emerged. Impact investing, a concept which closely co-exists with investment strategies such as socially responsible investing and responsible investing, is the latest attempt to combine financial return with a contribution to the sustainable development of …
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Converting the skeptic but losing the faithful: An experimental examination of expanding and auditing information in ESG reports
While socially responsible investing (SRI) has soared in recent years, some investors remain skeptical of ESG’s relevance. Despite these differing opinions, we understand little about how SRI preferences impact processing of ESG reporting. Drawing on motivated reasoning, I report an experiment that …
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Capital for communities : connecting community development loan funds to individual investors
… the financial system declined while the Socially Responsible Investing and Impact Investing sectors experienced significant growth. With these concurrent trends as a starting point, this thesis explores the potential for socially-minded individuals to become a more substantial source of capital …
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Changing the Rules of the Game: Can Voicing for Social Responsibility Influence Market Behavior Toward Greater Inclusiveness in Economic Development?
… a capitalist economy by investigating socially responsible investing and, tangentially, corporate social responsibility. These concepts have been at the heart of economic and legal debates for hundreds of years, with no clearly defined consensus regarding how to account for multi-stakeholder …
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An Investigation into the Psychology of Socially Responsible Investment Decisions
The Forum for Sustainable and Responsible Investment (US SIF) defines socially responsible investing (SRI) as an investment discipline that considers environmental, social and corporate governance criteria to generate long-term, competitive financial returns and positive societal impact (US SIF, …
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Corporate Social and Environmental Disclosure in Emerging Securities Markets: China as a Case Study
… and other stakeholders); how the socially responsible investing in a given market develops; whether the legal system is capable to enforce law; and so on. The feasibility of a CSE disclosure approach in an emerging market depends on the institutional environments of the market. Considered …
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Responsible investment in the South African pension fund industry: a critical analysis
… of the Pension Fund Act of 1956, this includes responsible investing (RI). However, the South African RI landscape, barring a few exceptions, is dominated by financial institutions other than pension funds who do not necessarily have the same legal and fiduciary imperatives. Using data gathered …
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Sustainable & responsible private equity in Southern Africa: evolutionary strides in a revolution?
… Community (SADC) integrate sustainable and responsible investment (SRI) practices in their investment processes. Also examined were the influences, opportunities and challenges associated with Southern African PE and VC firms adopting and implementing SRI towards sustainable growth and …
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The Development Role Played by Targeted Development Investments in South Africa and Their Risk-Adjusted Performance Over a 10-Year Period
… development investments as a subset of socially responsible investments have transformed the way capital is allocated towards development funding needs. In the South African context this study is relevant given it offers a contrast between investments made in the public sector where development …
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The influence of ESG on investment decision making in the investment management and capital markets sector
… provides insights into the evolving landscape of responsible investing in South Africa, where local economic conditions and social imperatives shape ESG adoption uniquely. Recommendations are offered to strengthen ESG integration practices, alongside suggestions for future research to further …
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Exploring the dynamics of impact investments in Botswana: the case of asset managers and owners
… to funding development. Fortunately, impact investing is a means through which investors ‘can put their principal where their principles are' and still be able to generate both social and financial returns, making it a revolutionary instrument for delivering blended value. Since development …
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Understanding the role played by Pension Fund Trustees and Investment Consultants in Responsible Investment Strategies in South Africa
Responsible investing (RI) often used as a synonym for Sustainable Investing, is a global phenomenon which simply refers to the integration of environmental, social and governance (ESG) risks and factors when making investment decisions albeit losing conventional financial criteria in making such …
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Three essays in empirical finance
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2024-05-01
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