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  Financial Analysts Journal: Risk mitigation of corporate social performance in US class action lawsuits

  We investigated the relationship between corporate environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance and litigation risk by examining US class action lawsuits. We found that a…

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  Journal of Asset Management: Herds on green meadows: the decarbonization of institutional portfolios.

  We analyze an emerging sustainable trend in asset management: the decarbonization of institutional portfolios. By using broad institutional ownership data, we show that investors exhibit…

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  Journal of Asset Management: The effect of environmental sustainability on credit risk

  The European Commission has proposed establishing a framework that redirects capital to sustainable investments in order to foster sustainable economic growth. A key proposal from…

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  Business Strategy and the Environment: Integrated reporting of environmental, social, and governance and financial data: Does the market value integrated reports?

  The concept of reporting nonfinancial information within the annual report, so-called Integrated Reporting (IR) is a rising topic in reporting practice. Supporters claim that IR…

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  Schmalenbachs Business Review: Investment Barriers and Labeling Schemes for Socially Responsible Investments

  Given the increasing role of socially responsible investing (SRI), but still limited participation of individual (i.e. small, retail) investors, the objective of this study is…

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  Credit and Capital Markets: Drivers of Socially Responsible Investments Across Europe

  The European Union wants to foster the sustainable growth of the economy by using the financial markets as an intermediary. Thus, politicians need to know…

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  Financial Markets and Portfolio Management: Factor exposures and diversification: are sustainably screened portfolios any different?

  We analyze the performance, risk, and diversification characteristics of global screened and best-in-class equity portfolios constructed according to Inrate’s sustainability ratings. The financial performance of…

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  Journal of Risk: The impact of corporate social and environmental performance on credit rating prediction: North America versus Europe

  We quantify the extent to which the quality of credit rating predictions improves by integrating measures of corporate social performance (CSP) in an established credit…

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  Journal of Sustainable Finance & Investment: On the heterogeneity of sustainable and responsible investors

  We demonstrate that German retail investors have very heterogeneous requirements pertaining to ‘sustainable investments’ as a group, based on a representative survey (n = 1014). According to…

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  Journal of Business Ethics: Individual and regional Christian religion and the consideration of sustainable criteria in consumption and investment decisions: An exploratory econometric analysis

  The concept of sustainable and responsible (SR) investments expresses that every investment should be based on the SR investor’s code of ethics. To a large…

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