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Although many papers have examined the Saudi stock market, to date none have explored the influence of religiosity on the behavior of stock prices, taking into account the dominance of individual investors. These characteristics distinguish the Saudi stock market from other mature and immature...
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This paper is the first to experimentally address the influence of the level of non-financial information provided for a socially responsible investment on the related non-financial, emotional return of non-professional investors and thus on their investment decision.Based on an experimental...
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Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) and sustainability investing have become very popular with institutional …, family office and more recently, retail investors. In the UK the range of ESG and sustainable funds for retail and high net …-adjusted performance of ESG funds for UK retail investors. Based on secondary data from the Financial Express (FE) Analytics database the …
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In 2006, the United Nations Global Compact launched Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), and the Japanese Ministry of Environment advocated financial mechanisms for environmental protection. We find that institutional ownership in 2005 is positively related to the probability of...
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We classify institutions into socially responsible institutions (SRI) and non-socially-responsible institutions (NSRI) based on the value weighted Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) scores of their portfolio holdings. Controlling for CSR scores, stocks that experience an increase in NSRI...
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assets (ROA). The impact of CSP, measured by environmental, social, and governance (ESG) scores, on FP is similar to that of … market sentiment. Specifically, we find that an effective ESG performance in the prior year, both the overall performance and …
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index—TRESGDX, emerging markets ESG index—TRESGEX, US large-cap ESG index—TRESGUS, Europe ESG index—TRESGEU, and those of …, social, and governance (ESG). It is an investment strategy that seeks to combine social and/ or environmental benefits with … the financial returns of the Thomson Reuters/S-Network global indices, namely the developed markets (excluding US) ESG …
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We exploit a modification to Sustainalytics' environmental, social, and governance (ESG) rating methodology, which is … subsequently adopted by Morningstar, to study whether ESG ratings are salient for stock pricing. We show that the inversion of the … ESG ratings. They buy (sell) stocks they misconceive as ESG upgraded (downgraded) even when the opposite is true. This …
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Recently, investors' growing awareness of environmental concerns has prompted many businesses to implement green policies and procedures. Investors' reactions to firms' environmental efforts vary across different industries. However, few empirical studies have addressed these differences,...
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