Sökning: "socially responsible investing"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 70 uppsatser innehållade orden socially responsible investing.
1. ESG Ratings and Stock Market Performance: Evidence of a Shift in Investor Preferences during a Period of Economic Distress in Scandinavia
C-uppsats, Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för finansiell ekonomi; Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för redovisning och finansieringSammanfattning : During the Covid-19 crisis, firms with high environmental, social, and governance (ESG) ratings traded within the Scandinavian markets had more significant pandemic-induced drops in stock returns than firms with low profiles in ESG. The difference was close to ten percentage points more severe for high-ESG compared to low-ESG firms. LÄS MER
2. Ansvarsfullt investerande eller en ren förlustaffär? : En komparativ studie mellan hållbara och konventionella aktiefonder i Sverige och Irland
Kandidat-uppsats, Södertörns högskola/Institutionen för samhällsvetenskaperSammanfattning : Utifrån den tidigare forskningen har det varit skiljaktigheter angående hur hållbara investeringar presterar i förhållande till avkastning och risk jämfört med konventionella investeringar. Samtidigt har intresset för hållbara investeringarna ökat vilket medför att det finns ett intresse att analysera hur hållbara investeringar förhåller sig inom avkastning och risk. LÄS MER
3. Constructing a Social Profitability Index: Socially Responsible Investing in Electric Utilities
C-uppsats, Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för finansiell ekonomiSammanfattning : Building on a theory about the Social Profitability Index (SPI), this paper is the first to construct an SPI in practice ranking investment opportunities based on social and financial returns within the electric utility industry. The social return is the investor-preference weighted social gain from avoiding carbon emissions by changing to renewable production technology in a firm. LÄS MER
4. To Sin or Not to Sin? A Study of Traditional and New Sin Stocks on the American Stock Market
Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionenSammanfattning : This study aims to investigate the difference in stock return between traditional sin stocks, new sin stocks, and their respective peer stocks. The purpose was to expand the scarcely researched area of new sin stocks by being the first one to focus on new sin stocks on the American stock market (United States NYSE, AMEX, and NASDAQ stock exchanges), as this area has only been researched in Europe before. LÄS MER
5. The power of purpose: How ESG subcategories drive financial performance : A comprehensive analysis using the Fama-French Five-Factor model
Magister-uppsats, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för management (MAN)Sammanfattning : ESG investing is a hot subject in today’s world with socially responsible investments under management reaching 35.3 trillion in the beginning of 2020. Corporations today are highly affected by social and government pressure to take on corporate social responsibility. LÄS MER