Despite the rising number of green finance policies, the origins shaping them remain largely unexamined. Using survival analysis to investigate the factors influencing the adoption of green finance policies, we find that social movement pressure, proxied by fossil fuel divestment, mainly drives...

We examine whether engagement on environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues can benefit shareholders by reducing firms' downside risk, measured using the lower partial moment and value at risk. Using a proprietary database, we provide evidence supporting this hypothesis. We further find...

Using five years of internal proprietary data collected directly from United Nations supported Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) signatories, we examine the attributes of the stakeholder relationship between the PRI and investment organizations. The analysis is carried out in the...

This paper explores if environmental social and governance (ESG) expertise matter for fixed income investments. This investigation is conducted by manually collecting fund and firm characteristics directly from the fund management companies and analysing the performance of a global sample of 108...