What Are the Pros and Cons of Socially Responsible Investing?

Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) Socially responsible investment is a special investment concept, that is, when choosing an investment company, not only pay attention to its financial and performance performance, but also pay attention to the performance of corporate social responsibility, in the traditional stock selection The model has added considerations such as corporate environmental protection, social ethics, and public interest, and is a more comprehensive way of investing in companies. At the same time, socially responsible investors can also use their identity as corporate shareholders to promote the fulfillment of good corporate social responsibility through active shareholder actions.

Socially responsible investment

Socially responsible investors include individuals, businesses, schools, hospitals, foundations, pension funds, religious groups, and non-profit organizations, etc., hoping to achieve financial goals while creating a better, fairer and sustainable development economic Society. Guided by these goals, socially responsible investment can be divided into three types of investment strategies: Screening, Shareholder Advocacy, and Community Investing.

Introduction to Socially Responsible Investment

As the research result of the National Social Science Fund, this book is the first monograph in China to systematically study the development of foreign socially responsible investment and China's socially responsible investment practice.

Socially responsible investment (SRI) is an investment behavior based on the concept of social responsibility. Compared with traditional investment. When socially responsible investors make investment decisions, they must not "considering traditional financial indicators, but also consider the positive or negative impact of the investment on society and the environment as a new investment method. Social responsibility Investment can guide enterprises to take into account economic, social and environmental benefits, form complementary and coexisting relationships among the three, and promote the rapid and healthy development of the entire economy.

This book conducts a comprehensive study of the theory and practice of socially responsible investment. The book starts with the basic concepts of socially responsible investment and analyzes the significance and feasibility of introducing socially responsible investment in China on the basis of comprehensively summarizing the development history and development experience of foreign socially responsible investment. Policy recommendations for socially responsible investment.

This book has certain reference significance for domestic government regulatory departments, financial institutions and investors, and also helps popularize socially responsible investment awareness in China.

Introduction to Socially Responsible Investment Authors

Zhu Zhongming is a professor of international finance at the University of International Business and Economics, and a doctoral supervisor. He has been engaged in the teaching and research of international financial theory and western economic theory for a long time, especially in the capital market, currency market, and financial macro-control theoretical research. He has published 7 academic monographs and published more than 300 academic papers. Among them, the published monographs "Microeconomic Analysis", "New Theory on the Development of China's Money Market", "The Theory of Macroeconomic Regulation and Control of Finance", and "Finance Risk Management" have won first and second prizes at the provincial and ministerial levels; published academic papers " "On the Economic Impact of the US Fiscal Deficit", "On the Total Amount and Structure of China's Foreign Debt", and "The Development of Hong Kong's International Financial Center" (both published in the International Finance Research Magazine) won second and third prizes at the provincial and ministerial levels. In China's economics and financial circles are well-known experts and scholars. In recent years, he has also served as Chief Economist of Asia Assets Limited and Zhongxin Guotong Guarantee Co., Ltd .; Independent Director of Precision Co., Ltd .; Senior Consultant of Entrepreneurs Group Investment Holding Company and Zhongfa International Assets Evaluation Co., Ltd .; China International Economics Director of China Academy of Marketing, China Marketing Association, Beijing Finance Association.

Catalog of Socially Responsible Investment Books

Chapter I Overview of Socially Responsible Investing

Section 1 Definition of Socially Responsible Investment

Section II Origin and Development of Socially Responsible Investment

I. Initial formation stage (before 1960s)

Second, rapid development stage (1960s to 1990s)

III. Rapid development stage (1990s to present)

Section 3 Implementation of Socially Responsible Investment

I. Screening of portfolios

Shareholder Advocacy

Community Investment (Community Investing)

Chapter II Corporate Social Responsibility and Socially Responsible Investing

Section 1 Corporate Social Responsibility

I. Proposing the concept of corporate social responsibility

Stakeholder theory

Third, corporate social performance model

Fourth, the corporate social responsibility certification system

V. Status of Corporate Social Responsibility in China

The relationship between corporate social responsibility and socially responsible investment

I. The impact of corporate social responsibility on investment behavior

Impact of socially responsible investment on corporate socially responsible behavior

Chapter III European and American Socially Responsible Investing

Section 1 American Socially Responsible Investing

I. Development of socially responsible investment in the United States

Second, the U.S. socially responsible investment case

Section 2 European Socially Responsible Investing

I. Development of socially responsible investment in Europe

2. British socially responsible investment

3. French socially responsible investment

Fourth, the Dutch socially responsible investment

V. Belgian socially responsible investment

Chapter 4 Asian Socially Responsible Investing

Section 1 Socially Responsible Investing in Bangladesh-Community Investment

Socially responsible investment in the second festival

I. Overview of the development of socially responsible investment in Japan

Cases of socially responsible investment

Section 3 Chinese Socially Responsible Investing

I. Socially responsible investment in Hong Kong

Second, Taiwan's socially responsible investment

3. Socially responsible investment in the Mainland

Chapter V Reasons for the Development of Foreign Socially Responsible Investment

Chapter VI Comparison of Socially Responsible Investment and Traditional Securities Investment

Chapter VII Significance of Promoting Socially Responsible Investment in China

Chapter VIII Feasibility Analysis of Socially Responsible Investing in China

Chapter IX Suggestions on Policies and Regulations to Promote Socially Responsible Investment in China

Chapter X Improving Capital Market Construction and Promoting Socially Responsible Investment

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