Sustainable Investment Issues: Financial Products, Performance and Methodologies

Dear Colleagues,

In recent years, sustainability has become one of the main criteria for investors, together with return and risk. As a result, several approaches and financial products have been developed to help financial investors who are devoted to sustainable investment. Moreover, different issues have arisen, such as how to define sustainable corporations, whether they perform better than conventional ones, how to manage sustainable portfolios, how to deal with diversification restrictions, the credibility of ESG assessments, the reaction of investors after corporate scandals, etc.

This Special Issue will gather original research dealing with sustainable investment possibilities, products, approaches, and issues. Suitable topics include but are not limited to the definition of sustainable corporations and sustainable investment, sustainability reporting and information issues, sustainable stock indices, sustainable mutual funds, sustainability performance and financial performance in sustainable and conventional firms and investment products, multicriteria portfolio management, including sustainability criteria, sustainability and crowdfunding, microfinance and sustainability measurement, and ranking methodologies.

References:

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Arribas, I.; Espinós-Vañó, M.D.; García, F.; Morales-Bañuelos, P.B. The Inclusion of Socially Irresponsible Companies in Sustainable Stock Indices. Sustainability 2019, 11, 2047.

Arribas, I.; Espinós-Vañó, M.D.; García, F.; Tamosiuniene, R. Negative Screening and Sustainable Portfolio Diversification. Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Issues 2019, 6 (4), 1566-1586.

Charlo, M.J.; Moya, I.; Muñoz, A.M. Financial Perfromance of Socially Responsible Firms: The short- and long- term Impact. Sustainability 2017, 9, 1622.

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García, F.; González-Bueno, J.; Oliver, J.; Riley, N. Selecting Socially Responsible Portfolios: A Fuzzy Multicriteria Approach. Sustainability 2019, 11, 2496.

Manes-Rossi, F.; Tiron-Tudor, A.; Nicolò, G.; Zanellato, G. Ensuring more sustainable reporting in Europe using non-financial disclosure-de facto and de jure evidence. Sustainability, 2018, 10, 1162.

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Dr. Fernando García
Guest Editor

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