Investing Responsibly - Benefits for the Ethical Investor
(2014) NEKH01 20132Department of Economics
- Abstract
- This thesis discusses whether Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) can affect a company’s, and consequently a portfolio’s, stock market performance. The study presupposes the regular assumptions drawn from CAPM. By creating three different portfolios, consisting of companies with similar financial characteristics, but with different levels of CSR-involvement, we investigate how the CSR-factor may affect stock market performance. The data used in this study is based on a monthly basis over the last ten years. We perform statistical tests and calculate common risk measures for the portfolios, e.g. Sharpe ratio and Treynor’s index. The results show that it can, in fact, be profitable for an investor to consider CSR-factors when making... (More)
- This thesis discusses whether Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) can affect a company’s, and consequently a portfolio’s, stock market performance. The study presupposes the regular assumptions drawn from CAPM. By creating three different portfolios, consisting of companies with similar financial characteristics, but with different levels of CSR-involvement, we investigate how the CSR-factor may affect stock market performance. The data used in this study is based on a monthly basis over the last ten years. We perform statistical tests and calculate common risk measures for the portfolios, e.g. Sharpe ratio and Treynor’s index. The results show that it can, in fact, be profitable for an investor to consider CSR-factors when making investment decisions. (Less)
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- author
- Ringkvist, Robin LU and Borovac, Emir LU
- supervisor
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- Dag Rydorff LU
- organization
- course
- NEKH01 20132
- year
- 2014
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- Finance, ESG, CSR, Emerging markets, Portfolio evaluation
- language
- English
- id
- 4301114
- date added to LUP
- 2014-02-12 09:31:41
- date last changed
- 2014-02-12 09:36:47
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