Socially Responsible Investment: To What Extend Company Benefits From Being Ethically Sound When Attracting Investments?
Hietala, Elina (2015)
Metropolia Ammattikorkeakoulu
2015
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-201504174478
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-201504174478
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Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) has recently become a trend among the investors, but how beneficial it is to invest to socially responsible companies? This paper investigates, to what extend company benefits of being ethically sound when attracting investment, over the time period of June 2009 to April 2014. This research identifies the performance of SRI funds compared to conventional funds, and how it affects the overall performance.
To answer the questions, this dissertation will present the changes over the past five years, which are implemented through FTSE group. The SRI fund index is compared to the regular fund index to see the growth changes. The result from the study indicates that there is no significant difference between two indices, although SRI funds seem to start to perform better in the future.
To answer the questions, this dissertation will present the changes over the past five years, which are implemented through FTSE group. The SRI fund index is compared to the regular fund index to see the growth changes. The result from the study indicates that there is no significant difference between two indices, although SRI funds seem to start to perform better in the future.