This book is a comprehensive guide which describes the development and current scope of SRI and explains the legal principles which should guide trustees and their advisers in their approach to this important subject.
This is the first book to look at socially responsible investment from the perspective of the institutional investor, who will be led through the complex dilemmas of socially responsible investment with practical examples and advice.
The third chapter will analyse the development of the SRI market in Europe and the US. In the fourth chapter the performance of socially responsible investment will be analyzed.
This book integrates socially responsible investment into modern portfolio theory from a multi-criteria perspective.
The three essays investigate whether socially responsible investingdiffers from conventional investing with regard to ethical standards, investment behavior, and performance.
This work starts with the clearing of uncertainties related to the core terminology and presents the numerous investment possibilities with their corresponding ecological impact.