Impact investing aims to simultaneously deliver two objectives: (i) social and environmental benefits and (ii) financial returns for a desired investment risk level. This dual objective function differentiates impact investing from other forms of investing that integrate environmental, social or...

We pursue the first large scale investigation of a strongly growing mutual fund type: Islamic funds. Based on an unexplored, survivorship bias adjusted dataset, we analyse the financial performance and investment style of 265 Islamic equity funds from twenty countries. As Islamic funds often...

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...

Pension funds have recently developed an increasing interest in environmental, social or governance (ESG) criteria, but critics claim that the integration of any of these non-financial criteria into pension fund investment processes conflicts with fiduciary duties. On this matter, the 2005...

From a simple idea to unite asset owners in their quest for responsible investment (RI) at its launch in April 2006, the United Nations supported Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) have grown in just one decade into an initiative with more than 1,500 fee paying signatories. Jointly, the...

From a simple idea to unite asset owners in their quest for responsible investment (RI) at its launch in April 2006, the United Nations supported Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) have grown in just one decade into an initiative with more than 1500 fee-paying signatories. Jointly, the...