[...]... change, as individual investors we cannot make much of a difference by refraining from investing in certain kinds of companies We also include three chapters consisting of reflections from practitioners on the current state and possible futures of responsible investment They write not from an academic point of view but from their day-to-day experiences and difficulties within responsible investment practices... Noah Chair in Responsible Investment Before xxiii xxiv About the Authors joining Unisa he spent 6 years in the consulting industry in both a mainstream business consulting company as well as a specialist Corporate Social Responsibility consulting firm He has a PhD in Ecology of all things He has published in the field of Ecology but more recently his interest has shifted to the disciplines of Corporate... Investment in Times of Turmoil, Issues in Business Ethics 31, DOI 10.1007/97 8-9 0-4 8 1-9 31 9-6 _1, C Springer Science+Business Media B.V 2011 1 2 S Waddell provide strategic change guidance in ways that make the GFS relatively easily understood was a core goal of the first phase of the Global Finance Initiative The GFI began in January 2008 – before the 2008–2009 crisis hit – as an investigation into strategies... Visiting Professor of Finance and Sustainable Development at the Ecole Superieur de Commerce, Toulouse and at the Norwegian School of Management He is a co-founder and was on the board of the UNEP Finance Initiative and was Chair of its Asset Management Working Group for over 10 years He Co-Chaired the Expert Group that drafted the UN Principles of Responsible Investment He served on the Commission dInvestissement... Assistant Professor with tenure at the University of Bergamo – Department of Business Administration She holds a PhD in Business Administration and Strategies with a dissertation on ‘Ethical Investors’ Her main areas of research are ethical investments, business ethics and corporate social responsibility, non-profit organization accounting and accountability She is one of the founder members of the Italian... taught in the Philosophy departments of various universities, including teaching courses in Ethics and Critical Thinking His scholarly articles have appeared in such journals as Philosophy and Literature, Journal of Social Philosophy, and Journal of Value Inquiry; he has presented papers to international conferences in Helsinki, Las Vegas, and Washington, DC, among others Marco Mansfeld is Head of Sustainability... characteristics of RPE and how these could satisfy certain responsible investors where these were let down by stock market investment The chapter offers a way out of Sandberg’s fatalistic picture of what real impact we can achieve through responsible investment The next three chapters in this book tackle the explicitly ethical claims prevalent in responsible investment Ethical concerns and intuitions can... Disclosure Project, and the Global Reporting Initiative’s finance project Moreover, insurance companies are perhaps the leaders in integrating climate change concerns into investment, and large endowments are pioneers in social impact In addition there are Sovereign Wealth Funds that incorporate principles beyond simple financial ones Many trillions of dollars of investment are involved Progressive Academics:... simplistic Most of mainstream investors agree ethical factors play a role – albeit an instrumental one – and most of responsible investment fund managers have a financial incentive In his chapter, Syse simply tears down the supposedly contrasting categories of responsible and mainstream investment, with pension funds and similar public funds (such as the NGPF) that have a large base of end owners and... deviation of MSCI World Index and the SRI fund portfolio in bull and bear phases and for the whole time series including F-tests for differences of the standard deviations 5.6 Coefficients of variation of the MSCI World Index and the SRI fund portfolio including the results of a t-test 6.1 Classification of the interview results 6.2 Classification of the results . 092 5-6 733 ISBN 97 8-9 0-4 8 1-9 31 8-9 e-ISBN 97 8-9 0-4 8 1-9 31 9-6 DOI 10.1007/97 8-9 0-4 8 1-9 31 9-6 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2011923541 © Springer. alt="" RESPONSIBLE INVESTMENT IN TIMES OF TURMOIL Issues in Business Ethics VOLUME 31 Series Editors: Wim Dubbink, Department of Philosophy, Tilburg University, The Netherlands Mollie Painter-Morland,. – from ‘ethical investment to ‘socially responsible investment and more recently responsible investment . Whatever turned responsible investment into what it is today and into what might happen