Investor Responsibility Research Center Institute (IRRCi)
The Investor Responsibility Research Center Institute (IRRCi) is a nonprofit research organisation that funds environmental, social and corporate governance research, as well as research on the capital market context that impacts how investors and companies make decisions.
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OVERVIEW
In July 2018, the Investor Responsibility Research Center Institute (IRRCi) announced that it selected the John L. Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance (Weinberg Center) at the University of Delaware as its successor organisation. The Weinberg Center received a grant from IRRCi in excess of $1 million as part of the successor transition.
Before the Weinberg Center became the successor organisation, IRRCi funded academic and practitioner research that enabled investors, policymakers and other stakeholders to make data-driven decisions. IRRCi research covered a wide range of topics of interest to investors, was objective, unbiased and disseminated widely. IRRCi issued 75 research reports, which are available on the Weinberg Center website at no cost. Its research has been cited by regulators, lawmakers, academics and leading investors.
Examples of research include:
- Measuring Effectiveness: Roadmap to Assessing System-level and SDG Investing. This report offers guidance for measuring the effectiveness of system-level and SDG Investing; Applies in-depth example to addressing SDG on Climate Action.
- Equity Vesting and Investment. This report won the 2017 IRRCi research award.
- The Long-Term Consequences of Short-Term Incentives. This report won second place in the 2017 IRRCi research award.
- Central Bank and Development Finance Institution Approaches to Investing in Global Systems. This report details how central banks and development finance institutions try to affect the world’s environmental, societal, and financial systems.
- How Investors Integrate ESG: A Typology of Approaches. This report examines how investors integrate environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors into their portfolios find that investors are leveraging a diverse set of integration strategies.
The Weinberg Center also continued to fund and manage the annual IRRCi Investor Research Award that recognises outstanding practitioner and academic research. The selection of the Weinberg Center was the result of a planned multi-year succession process undertaken by the IRRCi Board that included consideration of more than 25 organisations.
MISSION STATEMENT
IRRCi provides thought leadership at the intersection of corporate responsibility and the informational needs of investors.
FUNDING SOURCES
Before 2018 the IRRCi was a not-for-profit. In 2018 the Weinberg Center received a grant from IRRCi in excess of $1 million as part of the successor transition.
The Weinberg Center supporters consist of Alston and Bird, Ballard Spahr, Broadridge, Chevron, Clearly Gottlieb, Lazard, KPMG, PWC, and JP Morgan Chase and Co.
Top research partners from IRRCi (2009-2013)
CERES The Corporate Library Ernst & Young LLP GMI Ratings Harvard University, John M. Olin Center for Law Economics, and Business Harvard Law School, Pensions and Capital Stewardship Project, Labor and Worklife Program Initiative for Responsible Investment Institutional Shareholder Services Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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RECENTLY PUBLISHED BY INVESTOR RESPONSIBILITY RESEARCH CENTER INSTITUTE (IRRCI)
How investors integrate ESG: A typology of approaches
