All RI Quarterly articles
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Reports/GuidesEncouraging responsible tax behaviour: What investors need to know
Investors want to know their portfolio companies are paying taxes in line with their business activities, as aggressive tax planning costs governments billions of dollars of revenue, and creates market distortions in both developed and developing countries.
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Academic research
RI Quarterly: Spotlight on the new members of the PRI Academic Network Advisory Committee
The Academic Network Advisory Committee includes both leading academics as well as investment practitioners that guide and support the work of the Academic Network, which has over 4,000 members globally.
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Academic research
The future of responsible investment and modern portfolio theory
This is the winning essay of a student competition issued by the PRI on “How and where will millennials invest: the missing link between RI and financial education”. Shortlisted articles were presented by the students at PRI in Person 2018 in San Francisco. The authors are Saphira Rekker and ...
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Academic research
Technology and ethics: what should investors consider?
Technology has improved our standard of living, but the rapid pace of development has also created ethical dilemmas for companies and poses significant challenges for regulatory bodies.
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News and press
The 2018 investor climate calendar
2018 will be an important year in the race against time to safeguard the environment.
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Academic research
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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Academic research
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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Academic research
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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Academic research
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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Academic research
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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Academic research
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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Academic research
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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Academic research
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.
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Academic research
RI Quarterly vol. 11: Proxy season 2017
The global community is still catching its breath after US President Donald Trump confirmed he would pull the US out of the Paris Agreement.
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Academic research
Say on Pay - getting your voice heard
In recent years Say on Pay has become a corporate governance and responsible investment buzzword and has been at the forefront of discussions around executive remuneration.
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Academic research
Opening the Black Box of Board Appointments – women’s and men’s routes to the boardroom
Professor Elisabeth Kelan talks about new report Opening the Black Box of Board Appointments: Women’s and Men’s Routes to the Boardroom and what it reveals about the current state of gender diversity in the boardroom.
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Academic research
Spotlight on PRI Academic Network Advisory Committee new members and Academic Network Conference
The PRI is delighted to welcome the following new members to the Academic Network Advisory Committee. They bring a wealth of expertise from finance, management, strategy, corporate governance, and RI and financial performance from academia, industry and education. Diane-Laure Arjaliès Assistant Professor General Management, Managerial ...
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Academic research
As proxy access in the US spikes at 52%, have we reached a tipping point?
The explosion in proxy access resolution submissions has directly influenced the level and quality of corporate engagement, as well as the dialogue surrounding director elections.
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Academic research
Climate disclosure – what does this year’s ExxonMobil resolution tell us?
Examining climate disclosure through an in-depth look at the upcoming ExxonMobil climate disclosure resolution.
