Socially responsible investing: does the social pillar of firms´ ESG factors provide information for investors- portfolio returns? Evidence from Europe

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Autor(a) principal: Jaeger, Moritz Nikolaus
Data de Publicação: 2021
Tipo de documento: Dissertação
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10362/140504
Resumo: Using a large dataset of social ratings, this empirical analysis examines the financial performance of portfolios based on socially responsible investments in European equities. While there remains a dissensus among academics whether socially responsible investments can yield a significant outperformance, this thesis provides evidence that socially driven investments can provide positive and statistically significant risk-adjusted returns to the investor. Portfolios are for med through the best-in-class/ worst-in-class approach, using social ratings cores and sub-scores. Portfolio performance is evaluated in a Fama-French-Carhart four-factor model, providing evidence for positive and significant alphas within several long-only as well as net-zero investment portfolios (long-short).
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Socially responsible investing: does the social pillar of firms´ ESG factors provide information for investors- portfolio returns? Evidence from Europe
title Socially responsible investing: does the social pillar of firms´ ESG factors provide information for investors- portfolio returns? Evidence from Europe
spellingShingle Socially responsible investing: does the social pillar of firms´ ESG factors provide information for investors- portfolio returns? Evidence from Europe
Jaeger, Moritz Nikolaus
Factor investing
Portfolio management
Esg investing
Socially responsible investing
Social investing
Domínio/Área Científica::Ciências Sociais::Economia e Gestão
title_short Socially responsible investing: does the social pillar of firms´ ESG factors provide information for investors- portfolio returns? Evidence from Europe
title_full Socially responsible investing: does the social pillar of firms´ ESG factors provide information for investors- portfolio returns? Evidence from Europe
title_fullStr Socially responsible investing: does the social pillar of firms´ ESG factors provide information for investors- portfolio returns? Evidence from Europe
title_full_unstemmed Socially responsible investing: does the social pillar of firms´ ESG factors provide information for investors- portfolio returns? Evidence from Europe
title_sort Socially responsible investing: does the social pillar of firms´ ESG factors provide information for investors- portfolio returns? Evidence from Europe
author Jaeger, Moritz Nikolaus
author_facet Jaeger, Moritz Nikolaus
author_role author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Hirschey, Nicholas
RUN
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Jaeger, Moritz Nikolaus
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Factor investing
Portfolio management
Esg investing
Socially responsible investing
Social investing
Domínio/Área Científica::Ciências Sociais::Economia e Gestão
topic Factor investing
Portfolio management
Esg investing
Socially responsible investing
Social investing
Domínio/Área Científica::Ciências Sociais::Economia e Gestão
description Using a large dataset of social ratings, this empirical analysis examines the financial performance of portfolios based on socially responsible investments in European equities. While there remains a dissensus among academics whether socially responsible investments can yield a significant outperformance, this thesis provides evidence that socially driven investments can provide positive and statistically significant risk-adjusted returns to the investor. Portfolios are for med through the best-in-class/ worst-in-class approach, using social ratings cores and sub-scores. Portfolio performance is evaluated in a Fama-French-Carhart four-factor model, providing evidence for positive and significant alphas within several long-only as well as net-zero investment portfolios (long-short).
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