Corporate Social Responsibility and Socially Responsible Investment
Mainly focus on the relationship between managers/leaders and citizens (normal people)
ESG Investing is fundamentally changing investment landscape.
Environmental, Social, Governance
Who cares about ESG investing:
1. Revolutionist investors: believing that those ESG companies can change the world
2. Kind investors: avoiding/minimizing the harm to the planet and its communities
3. Performance seekers (share ratio maximisers): using ESG principles to protect their own
portfolio from potentially negative impact
Whatever your motivation, essentially all investors want return
Two third of sustainable funds beat the average performer in the same category
ESG investing is fundamentally changing investment landscape. The volume of ESG funds
worldwide has increased 100% in 4 years.
Being ethical is NOT costly; investors no need to sacrifice some return for meeting some ethical
standards.
CSR: Corporate Social Responsibility deals with the managerial consideration of non-market
forces or social aspects of corporate activity outside of a market or regulatory framework and
includes consideration of issues such as employee welfare, community programs, charitable
donations, and environmental protection.
SRI: Socially responsible investments is an investment process that considers the social and
environmental consequences of investments, both positive and negative.
Socially responsible investment applies a set of exclusionary and inclusionary screens to select
their investment. CSR indices also considers:
- Gender equality
- Carbon emission
- Recycling
- Employee profit schemes
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