A importância dos riscos ESG em decisões de investimento:

• Autor(a) principal: Fernandes, Alexandra Ventura Chaves
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10362/163751
• topic: Deveres de informação; ESG; Greenwashing; Investimentos socialmente responsáveis;; Mercados financeiros; Financial markets; Information duties; Socially responsible investments; Direito

The environmental, social and governance factors, better known as ESG factors have been particularly important recently, specifically regarding investments that take them into account. Given the growing environmental, social and governance sustainability concerns, the so-called socially responsible investments have shown a growing trend, however, they are still quite unknown to investors. In this way, this dissertation aims to study the perception of Portuguese society regarding these investments, and essentially the tendency of individuals to invest in this type of asset, while also identifying possible barriers when investing in this sector. To this end, it is necessary to understand the current paradigm of ESG factors in the Portuguese system, reflecting on the growing challenges in terms of regulation at this level and, taking into account the existing legislation on this subject, to analyze the questions that these rules aim to answer for investors, in order to safeguard greater protection for them, namely in relation to the information made available to these potential investors, trying to prevent greenwashing from occurring. In this context, this dissertation also explores the characteristics and preferences of individuals in relation to socially responsible investments. The approach thus took the form of online questionnaires and subsequent statistical analysis. The results were subjected to statistical inference tests, thus substantiating the answers to the questions under analysis, particularly about the relevance of these factors when making decisions, allowing conclusions to be drawn regarding the evolutionary trend of this type of investment, as well as understanding the possible reticence of the Portuguese population towards these investments, mainly due to lack of knowledge or quality information on the part of the market.