One of the significant developments in the investing community is the rise of socially responsible or ethical investments during last two decades. Because of the increasing size and importance of ethical mutual funds, this paper seeks to evaluate and compare the performance of ethical mutual...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to empirically examine the performance of socially responsible stocks portfolio vis-à-vis portfolios of general companies in the Indian stock market.Design/methodology/approach – The study has used absolute rate of return as well as various risk...

One of the significant developments in the investing community is the rise of socially responsible or ethical investments during last two decades. Because of the increasing size and importance of ethical mutual funds, this paper seeks to evaluate and compare the performance of ethical mutual...

Over the past few years the concept of green investing has received considerable attention and has led to the formation of different forms of green investment avenues/portfolios, mutual funds, index, etc. This paper examines whether green stocks portfolio outperforms non-green stocks portfolios...

This paper examines whether the companies that are socially responsible are performing better than general companies in Indian stock market in terms of price discovery, return, risk and various risk-adjusted measures during different structural break periods (i.e. pre-crisis, crisis and...

One of the significant developments in the investing community is the rise of socially responsible or ethical investments during last two decades. Because of the increasing size and importance of ethical mutual funds, this paper seeks to evaluate and compare the performance of ethical mutual...

Retailing is the interface between the producer and the individual consumer buying for personal consumption. As such, retailing is the last link that connects the individual consumer with the manufacturing and distribution chain. This paper examines consumers’ attitudes and perceptions towards...