Responsible Investment in Times of Turmoil

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Vandekerckhove, Wim (Editor), Leys, Jos (Editor), Alm, Kristian (Editor), Scholtens, Bert (Editor), Signori, Silvana (Editor), Schäfer, Henry (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
• Series: Issues in Business Ethics, 31
• Subjects: Finance.; Ethics.; Macroeconomics.; Finance, general.; Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics.

The SRI phenomenon is said to be entering the mainstream of financial intermediation. From a fairly marginal practice promoted or campaigned for by NGO’s and at odds with financial practice and orthodoxy it grew into well formulated policy adopted by a wide range of investors. Academic literature on...

Table of Contents:

• Foreword; Alejo José G. Sison.- List of tables
• List of figures
• About the editors
• About the authors.- Introduction; Wim Vandekerckhove, Jos Leys, Kristian Alm, Bert Scholtens, Silvana Signori and Henry Schäfer.- Chapter 1. Global finance and the role of responsible investors; Steve Waddell.- Chapter 2. New values in responsible investment; Neil Eccles.- Chapter 3. The legitimacy of ESG standards as an analytical framework for responsible investment; Tim Cadman.- Chapter 4. Reputational penalties in financial markets: an ethical mechanism?; Peter-Jan Engelen and Marc van Essen.- Chapter 5. The financial performance of RI funds after 2000; Olaf Weber, Marco Mansfeld and Eric Schirrmann.- Chapter 6. Responsible investment by pension funds after the financial crisis; Riikka Sievänen.- Chapter 7. Private equity as an emerging asset class of responsible investment; Barbara Del Bosco and Nicola Misani.- Chapter 8. Responsible investment and exclusion criteria: a case study from a Catholic Private Bank; Michael S. Aßländer and Markus Schenkel.- Chapter 9. Islamic Banking and responsible investment: is a fusion possible?; Reza Zain Jaufeerally.- Chapter 10. What are your investments doing right now?; Joakim Sandberg.- Chapter 11. Sustainability and social justice; Johan A. Klaassen.- Chapter 12.Reality and Potential of responsible investment; Carlos Joly.- Chapter 13. Why responsible investing?; Henrik Syse.- Post scripta – an Owl’s view; Jos Leys, Bert Scholtens, Henry Schäfer, Wim Vandekerckhove, Kristian Alm and Silvana Signori.- Index.