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"Of the 1,003 investors surveyed, nearly half (49%) said that over the next 12 months they were likely to invest in a company or mutual fund looking to provide solutions for environmental problems."
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Allianz Global Investors
   
(USA) January 2008

UK investors asked: "How important do you think it is for companies to take social, environmental and ethical issues seriously? Some 47% of those surveyed replied ‘very seriously’ and a further 40% ‘fairly seriously.'"
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F&C Investments
   
(UK) January 2007

84% of Canadian shareholders agreed with this statement: "[The] financial community should pay more attention to social and environmental performance when valuing companies."
-- GlobeScan
   
(Canada) February 2004

 

 

Ethical Investing - Research/Studies

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Key findings

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Ethical funds on level footing with counterparts, by Stefanie Ives, March 27, 2008, FT Advisor, UK.

UNEP Finance Initiative - Demystifying Responsible Investment Performance. Key academic and broker research on environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors and investment performance.

Board connections and mutual fund returns, by Lauren Cohen, Andrea Frazzini, and Christopher Malloy, National Bureau of Economic research, February 2008, USA.

Imitate or Differentiate? Evaluating the validity of corporate social responsibility ratings, by Aaron K. Chatterji, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University and David I. I. Levine, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, February 2008, USA.

Ethical funds' exposure not so green, by Tom Stevenson, February 6, 2008, The Daily Telegraph, UK.

IMCA Journal of Investment Consulting Publishes New Paper on Socially Responsible Investments, November 7, 2007, Marketwire.com, USA.

The Price of Ethics: Evidence from Socially Responsible Mutual Funds, by Luc Renneboog, Jenke ter Horst, Chendi Zhang, published by the Social Science Research Network.

THOMSON EXTEL AND THE UK SOCIAL INVESTMENT FORUM ANNOUNCE RESULTS OF THE SRI & SUSTAINABILITY SURVEY, June 29, 2007, UK. (Analyzes the ethical investing research capabilities of investment banks and stock-brokerages.)

SRI screens have little impact on returns: study by Steven Lamb, March 12, 2007, Advisor.ca, Canada.

Most investment managers see SRI (Socially Responsible Investing or Ethical Investing) practices becoming mainstream, Mercer Investment Consulting, Press Release, April 7, 2005., Canada.

See also: SRI Studies

Corporate Social Responsibility - Research/Studies

Key findings

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Corporate Social Responsibility through an Economic Lens, April 2008, Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government, Faculty Research Working Paper Series, USA.

Doing Well by Doing Good: IBM Study Says Businesses Seeking Growth Through Social Responsibility, February 12, 2008, CNNMoney.com, USA.

Corporate social responsibility increases company value, February 11, 2008, Innovations Report. Download all or part of this Ph.D thesis by Lammertjan Dam, "Corporate social responsibility and financial markets," University of Groningen, Netherlands.

US firms fall behind Europe in ethical standards, says Eiris, by Sean O'Grady, September 15, 2007, The Independent, UK.

Social Responsibility, May, 2007, International Standards Association.

Study slams ‘trivial’ corporate social responsibility reports, by Rob Edwards, Environment Editor, Sunday Herald (Scotland), June 25, 2006.

ASQ Poll Shows U.S. Companies Lag, but Executives See the Advantage of Using Corporate Social Responsibility, March 08, 2006.

Moskowitz Prize Study Links Strong Corporate Social Performance with Financial Results, by William Baue, CSR Wire, October 26, 2004, USA.

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