PRI-RI Digest

This sixth digest focuses on the financial impacts of corporate ESG performance and asks whether responsible investment is not only morally virtuous but also financially valuable? Previously, commentators tended to be sceptical, but the studies reviewed this month show a recent trend in academic studies that finds corporate responsibility to be virtuous in certain contexts. A more transparent, more connected world demands higher standards of corporate responsibility and investors appear to be able to financially profit from a responsible approach, if they have enough expertise …