Socially Responsible Investment (SRI)

2018 ◽  
pp. 74-152
Keyword(s):  
Venture Capital ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Socially Responsible Investment ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Corporate Management ◽  
Socially Responsible ◽  
Responsible Investment ◽  
Social Venture ◽  
Social Venture Capital ◽  
Consumer Boycotts

The most common forms to align financial investments with ethical, moral, and social considerations are screenings, shareholder advocacy, community investing, and social venture capital funding. Screenings integrate the evaluation of corporate financial and social performances into portfolio selections. Positive screenings target corporations with sound social and environmental responsibility. Negative screenings exclude entities featuring morally and ethically irresponsible corporate conduct. Shareholder advocacy is the active engagement of shareholders in the corporate management by voting, activism, and dialogue. The majority of shareholders exercise their voting rights by proxy resolutions, in which a third party has the right to advocate for the shareholders before the corporate board. Negative shareholder activism comprises political lobbying, consumer boycotts, stakeholder confrontation, and negative publicity. Community investing describe ear-marks of investment funds for community development, but also features access to financial products and services to un(der)served communities. Social venture capital supports pro-social start-ups and social entrepreneurs for the greater goal of increasing the social impact of financial markets. This chapter explores socially responsible investment.

scholarly journals Islamic Bonds (Sukuk) in Malaysia

ICR Journal ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 489-508
Author(s):  
Inam Ullah Khan
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Socially Responsible Investment ◽  
Secondary Market ◽  
Socially Responsible ◽  
Responsible Investment ◽  
Responsible Investing ◽  
Social Impact Bonds ◽  
Sustainable And Responsible Investment

This article introduces the various types of sukuk that exist in the Malaysian secondary market. The Malaysian sukuk market was initially debt-based which attracted criticism from the Shariah scholars from the Gulf and Middle East. However, the Malaysian sukuk market made a turn towards equity and ijarah sukuk and ventured into “green sukuk” or socially responsible investment (SRI) sukuk. To facilitate the financing of sustainable and responsible investment initiatives, the Securities Commission of Malaysia (SC) has launched the Sustainable and Responsible Investment (SRI) sukuk Framework in 2014. The introduction of the SRI sukuk framework is seen to be in line with the rising trend of “green bonds” and “social impact bonds” that have been introduced globally to facilitate and promote sustainable and responsible investing. The writer has presented different examples from both regions to show that the gap has been bridged. However, despite this convergence the author recommends a revisit of the controversial debt-based instruments by Malaysian Shariah scholars.  

scholarly journals The Link Between SRI and Financial Performance: Effects and Moderators

2013 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 105-122 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christophe Revelli ◽  
Jean-Laurent Viviani
Keyword(s):  
Financial Performance ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Socially Responsible Investment ◽  
Empirical Literature ◽  
Empirical Methods ◽  
Socially Responsible ◽  
Responsible Investment ◽  
Counting Approach ◽  
Performance Effects ◽  
Vote Counting

Over the last twenty years, the debate on financial performance of socially responsible investment (SRI) has not yielded a clear consensus, arguing mainly that there was no difference in performance between SRI and ‘conventional’ investment, although SRI could underperform or outperform in some cases. Our research, based on a meta-analysis ‘vote-counting’ approach of the empirical literature, allows us to observe that the effects of SRI on financial performance are multiple. Second, we conclude that the financial performance of SRI is radically changing according to the empirical methods employed by researchers.

scholarly journals Socially Responsible Investment in Market Downturns

2010 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 86-104
Author(s):  
Richard Copp ◽  
Michael L Kremmer ◽  
Eduardo Roca
Keyword(s):  
Socially Responsible Investment ◽  
Socially Responsible ◽  
Responsible Investment

Environmentally friendly and socially responsible investment in and by occupational pension funds in the USA and in the EU

2021 ◽  
pp. 138826272110269
Author(s):  
Lauren Daniels ◽  
Yves Stevens ◽  
David Pratt
Keyword(s):  
Financial Performance ◽  
Investment Decision ◽  
Pension Funds ◽  
Socially Responsible Investment ◽  
Occupational Pension ◽  
Socially Responsible ◽  
Responsible Investment ◽  
Occupational Pensions ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Eu

Worldwide pension funds, in their capacity as large institutional investors, are under increasing pressure to take social and environmental considerations into account in their investment decision-making process. The concepts Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) and Environmental Social Governance (ESG) are indeed ubiquitous in the current investment and pension community. This article aims to provide some insight into the conceptual relationship between SRI and ESG and its legal implications for the investment behaviour of private pension funds in the USA and the EU. Hence, the first part of the article gives some background to the distinct concepts of SRI and ESG. This leads to the finding that SRI goes one step further than ESG by prioritising moral or ethical considerations that may not be material to an investment’s financial performance, whereas ESG functions as a guideline to enhance financial performance. The second part analyses the legal possibilities and constraints for responsible investment in American occupational pensions and the third part does the same for European occupational pensions. The article concludes with a summary and comparative overview of the American and European lessons.

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