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Business Ethics

Business ethics encompass the moral principles and values guiding corporate conduct, extending beyond legal requirements to promote integrity and trust among stakeholders. Key considerations include corporate governance, conflicts of interest, insider trading, bribery, discrimination, human rights, social responsibility, and fiduciary duties.

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Accounting for Sustainability (A4S)

Finance / Corporate Focused NGOs & Think Tanks
Accounting for Sustainability aims to inspire action by finance leaders to drive a fundamental shift towards resilient business models and a sustainable economy. It achieves this through conducting research, publishing reports, hosting events and providing a networking platform for the finance and accounting community.
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How to read a financial institution's policy: Analysing cluster munitions divestment policies

Profundo
Financial institutions consider cluster munitions companies as inappropriate business partners and have made efforts to restrict their investment. Unfortunately, their policies contain loopholes that could still allow their financing. Several steps have been introduced in order to help analyse a financial institution's policy and prevent cluster munitions exposure in portfolios.
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23 March 2016

ShareAction

Finance / Corporate Focused NGOs & Think Tanks
ShareAction, formally known as FairPensions, is a charity focused on propelling a shift towards responsible investment. Their vision entails transforming the investment system into one that better serves savers, society and the environment.
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25 research items

Analysis of ethics and investor behaviour and its impact on financial satisfaction of capital market investors

This research, through hypothesis testing, examines the impact of investors' ethical awareness and understanding on investor behaviour in capital markets and its link to increased financial satisfaction through that behaviour. As such, the reports challenges neo-classical economic theory by suggesting investors look beyond risk and return and develop investment portfolios in line with their ethics.
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31 January 2018

Multi-asset investments: Managing sustainability from a total portfolio perspective

Schroders
Integrating environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria into existing portfolios involves considerations beyond benchmark tracking and diversification such as budgets for governance and risk as well as portfolio impacts of different types of ESG implementation. The report explores ESG portfolio integration as well as outlining trade-offs in portfolio management.
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31 March 2019

The value of responsible investment

Investment Leaders Group
The research explores the moral, financial and economic justification for responsible investment, and the academic evidence underpinning future action. It concentrates on how ESG factors materially impact investment risk and returns, clarifying the agency of investors over non-financial value creation.
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31 December 2014

Worldwide investments in cluster munitions: A shared responsibility

PAX
A 2018 report on worldwide investments in harmful cluster munitions. Two arms manufacturers recently ended production of cluster munitions, and more financial institutions and states are acting to end money going to producers. Despite declining investment from financial institutions, there are seven companies in the report still manufacturing.
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3 December 2018
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