Forbes: Inside the big threat to sustainable investing

A study by Dr Oğuzhan Karakaş and Professor Elroy Dimson on corporate social responsibility engagements is featured in Forbes. The study entitled “Active Ownership” analyses “an extensive proprietary database of corporate social responsibility engagements with U.S. public companies from 1999–2009.”

The Forbes article also features another paper by Dr Oğuzhan Karakaş and Professor Elroy Dimson. The working paper entitled “Coordinated Engagements” found that “a two-tier engagement strategy, combining lead investors with supporting investors, is effective in successfully achieving the stated engagement goals and subsequently improving target performance.”

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