ESG, SRI, and impact investing: A primer for decision-making

DM Grim, DB Berkowitz - The Journal of Impact and ESG …, 2020 - pm-research.com
Investors throughout the world are increasingly interested in environmental, social, and
governance (ESG) issues. However, they may be puzzled by the growing assortment of …

Enabling social innovation through developmental social finance

S Geobey, FR Westley, O Weber - Journal of Social …, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
This paper explores social finance as a strategy for generating social innovations and, at the
same time, financial returns. It explores why risk assessment for social finance is so …

Drivers of differences in performance of ESG-focused funds relative to their underlying benchmarks

IJ Fooladi, G Hebb - Global Finance Journal, 2023 - Elsevier
Several studies have examined whether environmental, social, and governance (ESG)
focused funds outperform their benchmarks. While these studies vary in their methods and …

On the superior performance of SRI funds

A Fatemi, I Fooladi, Y Zhao, Z Ma - International Review of Economics & …, 2024 - Elsevier
We compare the performance of 1126 US mutual funds deemed socially responsible to that
of a matching sample of conventional funds over the three-decade period January 1980 …

Socially responsible investments

M Statman - Available at SSRN 995271, 2007 - papers.ssrn.com
What do we know about socially responsible investments? What distinguishes socially
responsible companies from conventional companies? Should investors expect socially …

The financial performance of RI funds after 2000

O Weber, M Mansfeld, E Schirrmann - Responsible investment in times of …, 2011 - Springer
More and more investors integrate social and environmental criteria into their investment
decisions (Kasemir et al. 2001). Thus the number of investment funds in the socially …

An equation with many variables: Unhiding the relationship between sustainability and investment performance

BT Peylo, S Schaltegger - Journal of Sustainable Finance & …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Financial investment performance of stock portfolios is driven by many factors of influence
like portfolio diversification, quality of funds management or gravitational effects of market …

[PDF][PDF] Corporate social responsibility and the cost of debt financing

A Goss, G Roberts - Financial Management Association: Orlando, FL, USA, 2007 - Citeseer
How do financial markets view socially responsible companies? Among financial
economists, the accepted view of the firm has managers working to maximize the utility of …

[PDF][PDF] THE PERFORMANCE, VOLATILITY, PERSISTENCE AND DOWNSIDE RISK CHARACTERISTICS OF SUSTAINABLE INVESTMENTS IN EMERGING MARKET.

O Weber, WR Ang - ACRN Oxford Journal of Finance & Risk …, 2016 - acrn-journals.eu
We analyzed the performance of an emerging market SRI index, the MSCI SRI Emerging
Market Index, with regard to its financial performance compared to conventional indexes …

The financial performance of SRI funds between 2002 and 2009

O Weber, M Mansfeld, E Schirrmann - Available at SSRN 1630502, 2010 - papers.ssrn.com
Is there a difference in the financial returns between a portfolio of funds based on the
concept of Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) and a conventional index between 2002 …