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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Socially Responsible Investing"”.
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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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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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Performance of Socially Responsible Investment Funds in South Africa
… examines 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 …
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Corporate strategy and corporate environmental responsibility in Canada : multiple descriptive case studies
… social license to operate, share value (socially responsible investing), shareholder pressure, public pressure, employee retention, cutting operational costs, the escalation of corporate accountability, or even altruistic goals, this is a growing trend among business. This field is in its …
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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
… in 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 …
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Changing the Rules of the Game: Can Voicing for Social Responsibility Influence Market Behavior Toward Greater Inclusiveness in Economic Development?
… within 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 …
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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
… (shareholders 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. …
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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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The Development Role Played by Targeted Development Investments in South Africa and Their Risk-Adjusted Performance Over a 10-Year Period
… Targeted 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 …
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Three essays in empirical finance
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