This paper examines the performance of socially responsible companies in different sectors along with general companies using return and various risk-adjusted measures over the period January 1996–December 2013 and over different business economic conditions. Besides the conventional...

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...

In a first of its kind, this paper examines the performance of various socially responsible stocks portfolios as compared to general stocks portfolios and market portfolio using return and various risk-adjusted measures over the period January 1996 – December 2013 and over different business...

Socially Responsible Investing (SRI), which integrates social and environmental criteria into traditional investment decision process, has emerged as a new concept in investing, especially in the wake of growing concerns for corporate social responsibility. This paper provides an extensive...

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...