Socially responsible investment in a global environment

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Title:

Author:

Fung, Hung-gay.

ISBN:

9781848442139

Personal Author:

Fung, Hung-gay.

Publication Information:

Cheltenham : Edward Elgar, 2010.

Physical Description:

x, 180 p. ; 24 cm.

Contents:

Socially responsible investment : opportunities, challenges, and practices -- SRI approaches and criteria -- Incentives, alternatives, and financial performance of SRI -- Environmental issues -- Social, ethical, and religious issues -- Corporate governance issues, corporate policy, and corporate social responsibility practices -- Practice of SRI by institutional investors, non-governmental organizations, and suprnational agencies -- Socially responsible investment and global banking -- Outlook and conclusion.

Abstract:

Readers are provided with the perspectives of SRI from various players in the financial community - from values-based investors to fiduciaires to supranational agencies.

Subject Term:

Investments -- Moral and ethical aspects.

Added Author:

Law, Sheryl A.

Yau, Jot.

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Summary

Socially responsible investment (SRI) is becoming increasingly popular and can be potentially rewarding to all parties concerned. This book discusses the opportunities, challenges, and practices of SRI in a global financial environment in a consistent and integrated framework of risk management. It also covers a wide variety of environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) issues related to various participants, such as values-based retail, institutional investors, corporations, banks, supranational agencies, and non-governmental organizations

Readers are provided with the perspectives of SRI from various players in the financial community - from values-based investors to fiduciaries to supranational agencies. The authors analyse the incorporation of ESG issues into investment practices within a regulatory, legal, reputational, and operational risk management framework.

Academics, corporate executives, government regulators and policymakers, bankers, and non-governmental organizations involved with sustainable development will find much of interest in this book.