Recommended reading
Sustainable investment
- Show me the money: linking environmental, social and governance issues to company value
- ( United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative , 2006)
- This report highlights links between environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues, financial value and company profitability across eight industry sectors. It demonstrates that investors who do n...
- A legal framework for the integration of environmental, social and governance issues into institutional investment
- ( United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative , 2005)
- The objective of the report is to assess the integration of environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues into investment policy (including asset allocation, portfolio construction and stock-picki...
- Investing in sustainable development
- ( R. Hamwey / Cen2eco – Centre for Economic and Ecological Studies , 2006)
- In the context of growing awareness within investment circles, that sustainable enterprises are successful, this paper critically explores the attributes of companies that adhere to sustainable develo...
- An assessment of SRI engagement: a study on supply chain labour standards
- ( C. Higgs / UK Social Investment Forum , 2005)
- Based on a number of interviews with Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) analysts and company representatives the paper examines in which circumstances SRI engagement – like fact finding or monitor...
- Socially responsible investing: where do we go from here?
- ( A. Cramer; M. Hirschland / Business for Social Responsibility , 2005)
- While recognising the great impact which socially responsible investment (SRI) has had, this briefing identifies three issues which deserve closer attention in order to maintain and expand the impact ...
