Brazilian pension funds and socially responsibility: a game with gains between private and public interests?

• Autor(a) principal: Santiago, Ricardo Domingues
• Data de Publicação: 2010
• Outros Autores: Gomes, Eduardo Rodrigues
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Sistemas & Gestão
• Texto Completo: https://www.revistasg.uff.br/sg/article/view/V5N2A3
• topic: Socially Responsible Investments; Pension funds; SRI; Socially Responsible Investments; Pension funds; SRI; Investimentos Socialmente Responsáveis; Fundos de Pensão; RSA

In recent years the issue “Socially Responsible Investments - SRI has been gaining a substantial space in the media and in the academic and corporate world.  It is being discussed how an investor, through such socially responsible investments, can congregate his financial interests with issues regarding the social environmental responsibility. At the center of such discussion are the pension funds which, as institutional investors, have exercised a strong influence in the market, regarding the adoption of social environmental responsibility practices. In this sense, trough an exploratory and descriptive research, this article tries to analyze the current practices adopted by the Brazilian pension funds, in relation to Socially Responsible Investments - SRI and evaluate the growth expectations and SRI diversification of those companies, so that they may contribute more and more for the country’s development, complying with the wishes of their members and of the society in gene