This month's theme: Financial impacts of corporate ESG performance

Welcome to the RI Digest - your digested reviews of the latest academic research on responsible investment.

This sixth digest focuses on the financial impacts of corporate ESG performance and asks whether responsible investment is not only morally virtuous but also financially valuable? Previously, commentators tended to be sceptical, but the studies reviewed this month show a recent  trend in academic studies that finds corporate responsibility to be virtuous in certain contexts.  A more transparent, more connected world demands higher standards of corporate responsibility and investors appear to be able to financially profit from a responsible approach, if they have enough expertise …

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