Sheryl A. Law And Jot Yau Hung-Gay Fung Socially Responsible Investment in a Global Environment

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Socially responsible investment (SRI) is becoming increasingly popular and can be potentially rewarding to all parties concerned. This book discusses the opportunities, challenges, and practices of SRI in a global financial environment in a consistent and integrated framework of risk management. It also covers a wide variety of environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) issues related to various participants, such as valued-based retail, institutional investors, corporations, banks, supranational agencies, and non-governmental organizations. Readers are provided with the perspectives of SRI from of various players in the financial community - from values-based investors to fiduciaries to supranational agencies. The authors analyze the incorporation of ESG issues into investment practices within a regulatory, legal, reputational, and operational risk management framework. Academics, corporate executives, government regulators and policy-makers, bankers, and non-governmental organizations involved with sustainable development will find much of interest in this book.