All Academic research articles – Page 2
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Academic research
How engagement creates value for investors and companies: Relationship building
ESG engagement encourages closer collaboration between ESG and financial analysts and/or fund managers. In addition, the relationships between investors and companies support the integration of ESG, in a self-reinforcing manner, within both investment firms and companies.
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Academic research
How engagement creates value for investors and companies: Political dynamics
This chapter looks at the role of political dynamics in how ESG engagement can create value for investors and companies.
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Academic research
How engagement creates value for investors and companies: Learning dynamics
The reinforcement of the communication channels between investors and their investee companies through ESG engagement also creates new opportunities for learning about ESG issues on the corporate side.
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Academic research
How engagement creates value for investors and companies: Communicative dynamics
We identified three main sets - communicative, learning and political - of ESG engagement dynamics which create value. This chapter focuses on the communicative dynamics.
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Academic research
Introduction to how ESG engagement creates value for investors and companies
A growing number of investors are undertaking corporate engagement and exercising their rights as shareholders to influence corporate behaviour.
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Academic researchHow ESG engagement creates value for investors and companies
There is growing evidence that engagement by investors with companies on ESG issues can create shareholder value.
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News and press
PRI launches online platform to enhance academic-investor dialogue
The PRI has today launched the Academic Network Online – a unique platform that will connect 4,000 academics and investment practitioners to enhance dialogue and foster relationship-building.
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News and press
PRI announces plans to reimagine, look beyond modern portfolio theory
Examining the limitations of modern portfolio theory (MPT), the PRI has announced a programme of activities designed to analyse and consider the possibilities of investment decision making.
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Blog post
Social cohesion and inclusive growth: Investment risks and opportunities
Social cohesion is an increasing concern in the investment sphere, skewing traditional notions and models.
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Academic research
RI Quarterly vol. 12: Highlights from the Academic Network Conference and PRI in Person 2017
At a time of heightened political and societal sensitivity, the debates that took place at the PRI Academic Network Conference 2017 were brought into sharp focus.
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Blog post
How and where will millennials invest?
Millennials are changing the nature of finance and how it works (or doesn’t), corporations, the investment and pensions industry, and investment itself.
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Blog post
Handle with care: the empowered millennial
Millennials are more empowered than previous generations and they know what they want: to invest in the “future”.
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Webinar
PRI in Person 2017 - Latest insights from RI research
Prize winning research will be presented from the PRI Awards and the FIR-PRI Finance and Sustainability Awards.
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Webinar
PRI in Person 2017 - The future of RI: how and where will millennials invest?
Millennials are changing the nature and workings of finance, corporations, the investment and pensions industry, and investment itself.
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Blog post
How ESG engagement creates value: bringing the corporate perspective to the fore
Corporate engagement on environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues is on the rise among investors. However, the mechanisms through which value is typically created have hitherto been an underexplored area, particularly from a corporate perspective.
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Webinar
PRI in Person 2017: Is shareholder engagement adding value?
This session unveils the findings of two pieces of PRI-commissioned research into shareholder engagement.
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Blog post
Local leads, backed by global scale: the drivers of successful engagement
The PRI encourages and facilitates collaborative engagement, yet robust evidence of its effectiveness in driving corporate change and creating value for investors remains elusive.
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Blog post
Beyond modern portfolio theory – how investors can mitigate systemic risk through the portfolio
The near universally adopted modern portfolio theory (MPT) put forward by Nobel laureate Harry Markowitz in 1952 is blind to the effect of portfolio investment on the capital markets’ overall risk/return profile and on the macro systems upon which the market relies for stability.
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Blog post
Long-term social issues drive economic growth, so why aren't investors behind the wheel?
Long-term social issues – the ‘S’ in ESG – matter for investors. They are key factors determining both long-term GDP growth and the level of equilibrium of interest rates.
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Blog post
Professor Susan Vinnicombe on The Davies Committee
“It was a very successful campaign.” That is how Professor Susan Vinnicombe describes the outcome of the 2015 Davies Report.
