Research Review | 2.20.2012 | Socially Responsible Investing

The Many Faces of Socially Responsible Investing - Does the Screening Mechanism Affect the Risk and Return of Mutual Funds?
Jacquelyn Humphrey and David Tan (Australian National University) | Aug 2011
We investigate whether positive or negative screening impacts the performance and risk of socially responsible mutual funds. We mimic the characteristics of mutual funds and bootstrap firm returns to form portfolios which reflect actual mutual fund holdings. We find positive screening results in increased returns, but also increased total risk and beta. We do not find support for the conjecture that positively screened firms have lower unsystematic risk. Return results from negative screening are not as clear, but we do find that increasing the number of stocks excluded from a portfolio may impede the ability to fully diversify.

Green Investment and Related Disclosures Decisions
Patrick Martin and Donald Moser (University of Pittsburgh) | Dec 2011
We use experimental markets to examine whether preferences for societal benefits lead managers to invest in unprofitable green projects, what information they disclose regarding such investments, and how investors react to those disclosures. We find that managers who are also shareholders in their company make green investments even when they know this reduces shareholder value, thereby decreasing their own and other current shareholders? payoffs. Moreover, managers voluntarily disclose to potential investors that they have made such unprofitable green investments and tend to focus their disclosures on the societal benefits of their green investment rather than on the cost to the company. Finally, potential investors? bids for the company reward managers and other current shareholders more when managers disclose their green investments than when they do not, and this result is stronger when managers? disclosures focus on the societal benefits of their investment rather than on the cost to the company. These results are consistent with both managers and potential investors trading off personal wealth for societal benefits and help explain why, given the current voluntary reporting environment, company managers often focus their disclosures of environmental investments on the benefits to society and to the company rather than on the cost to the company. In addition to these specific results, our study demonstrates the benefits of using experiments to study important corporate social responsibility issues that are difficult to address using archival data.

The Performance of Socially Responsible Investment: A review of scholarly studies published 2008?2010
Emma Sj?str?m (Stockholm School of Economics) | Oct 2011
This report explores whether socially responsible investment (SRI) generates higher, lower or similar risk adjusted financial return compared with conventional investment. 21 academic studies are reviewed. Seven studies conclude that SRI have similar performance relative to their conventional peers. Five studies report that SRI outperforms conventional investment. Three studies find that SRI generates inferior performance relative to its conventional peers. Finally, six studies report mixed results. We can conclude that results point in all different directions, and that there is no clear link between SRI and financial performance. Our results implicates that it would be unwise to make general statements about the performance of SRI based on only one or a few studies.

Trends in the Literature on Socially Responsible Investment: Looking for the Keys Under the Lamppost
Gunther Capelle-Blancard and St?phanie Monjon (Universit? Paris) | Oct 2011
In this paper, we use online search engines and archive collections to examine the popularity of socially responsible investing (SRI) in newspapers and academic journals. A simple content analysis suggests that most of the papers on SRI focus on financial performance. This profusion of research is somewhat puzzling as most of the studies used roughly the same methodology and obtained very similar results. So, why so many studies on SRI financial performance? We argue that the academic literature on SRI is mostly data-driven: the famous ?Looking for the Keys Under the Lamppost? syndrome. The question of the financial performance of the SRI funds is certainly relevant, but maybe too much attention has been paid to this issue, whereas more research is needed on a conceptual and theoretical ground, in particular the aspirations of SRI investors, the relationship between regulation and SRI, as well as the assessment of extra-financial performances.

Financial Constraints on Corporate Goodness
Harrison Hong (Princeton University), et al. | Jan 2011
We model the firm's optimal choice of capital and goodness subject to financial constraints. Managers and shareholders derive benefits over profits and social responsibility. Goodness is costly and its marginal benefit is finite; as a result, less-constrained firms spend more on goodness. We verify that less-constrained firms do indeed have higher social responsibility scores. Our empirical analysis addresses identification issues that have long plagued the corporate social responsibility literature, establishing the causality of this relationship using a natural experiment. During the technology bubble, previously constrained firms experienced a temporary relaxation of their constraints and their goodness scores also temporarily increased relative to their previously unconstrained peers. This convergence applies to all components of the goodness scores such as community and employee relations and environmental responsibility but not governance.

Are Red or Blue Companies More Likely to go Green? Politics and Corporate Social Responsibility
Alberta Di Giuli (ISCTE Business School) and Leonard Kostovetsky (University of Rochester) | March 2011
We use political variables to examine how personal preferences of firm stakeholders for socially responsible behavior affect corporate social responsibility (CSR). We find that firms with Democratic CEOs, founders, and directors are more socially responsible, as reflected in higher KLD scores (firm CSR ratings provided by Kinder, Lydenberg, and Domini), than firms with Republican corporate stakeholders. On average, firms with a Democratic CEO have KLD scores that are 0.15 standard deviations higher than firms with a Republican CEO. Firms headquartered in states that lean Democratic are also more socially-responsible than firms in Republican states. Specifically, firms in deep-?blue? states like California have, on average, KLD scores that are 0.22 standard deviations higher than firms in deep-?red? states such as Louisiana. Our tests control for important firm characteristics such as size and financial constraints, CEO characteristics such as the CEO?s age and gender, and industry effects. We investigate, and find little evidence in favor of, alternative explanations such as reverse causality (CSR leading to more donations to Democrats) and selection (responsible firms hiring more Democratic CEOs or choosing headquarters in Democratic states). The recent growth in the popularity of CSR and socially-responsible investing (SRI) suggests that our results are relevant for corporate finance and asset pricing.

Source: http://www.capitalspectator.com/archives/2012/02/research_review_17.html

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Syrian forces mass outside rebel stronghold

One of three Syrian injured men who were wounded by shelling at Baba Amr neighborhood in the Syrian province of Homs, lies on his hospital bed as he receives treatment, in the eastern town of Chtoura, in Bekaa valley, Lebanon, on Monday Feb. 20, 2012. Lebanese security officials said at least three wounded Syrians were brought for treatment in the eastern town of Chtoura. The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity in line with regulations, said the wounded came from the Baba Amr attacks. Syria's military sent tanks and other reinforcements toward the restive central city of Homs on Monday in what appears to be preparations by President Bashar Assad's regime for an offensive aimed at retaking rebel-held neighborhoods, activists said. (AP Photo/Samer Husseini)

One of three Syrian injured men who were wounded by shelling at Baba Amr neighborhood in the Syrian province of Homs, lies on his hospital bed as he receives treatment, in the eastern town of Chtoura, in Bekaa valley, Lebanon, on Monday Feb. 20, 2012. Lebanese security officials said at least three wounded Syrians were brought for treatment in the eastern town of Chtoura. The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity in line with regulations, said the wounded came from the Baba Amr attacks. Syria's military sent tanks and other reinforcements toward the restive central city of Homs on Monday in what appears to be preparations by President Bashar Assad's regime for an offensive aimed at retaking rebel-held neighborhoods, activists said. (AP Photo/Samer Husseini)

In this Feb. 18, 2012 citizen journalism image provided by the Local Coordination Committees in Syria and accessed on Sunday, Feb. 19, 2012, anti-Syrian regime mourners carry the coffins of three protesters according to Syrian activists that were killed by the Syrian security forces during a demonstration, at Mazzeh district in Damascus, Syria. Syrian security forces fired live rounds and tear gas Saturday at thousands of people marching in a funeral procession that turned into one of the largest protests in Damascus since the 11-month uprising against President Bashar Assad began. (AP Photo/Local Coordination Committees in Syria) THE ASSOCIATED PRESS IS UNABLE TO INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE AUTHENTICITY, CONTENT, LOCATION OR DATE OF THIS HANDOUT PHOTO

In this Feb. 18, 2012 citizen journalism image provided by the Local Coordination Committees in Syria and accessed on Sunday, Feb. 19, 2012, the dead body of anti-Syrian regime protester is seen wrapped by the Syrian revolution flag and according to Syrian activists that was killed by the Syrian security forces during a demonstration, at Mazzeh district in Damascus, Syria. Syrian security forces fired live rounds and tear gas Saturday at thousands of people marching in a funeral procession that turned into one of the largest protests in Damascus since the 11-month uprising against President Bashar Assad began. (AP Photo/Local Coordination Committees in Syria) THE ASSOCIATED PRESS IS UNABLE TO INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE AUTHENTICITY, CONTENT, LOCATION OR DATE OF THIS HANDOUT PHOTO

CORRECTS THE DAY - A Syrian boy chants slogans during a rally demanding UNICEF to protect Syrian children in front of the UNICEF Compound in Amman, Jordan, Monday, Feb. 20, 2012. (AP photo/Mohammad Hannon)

Two of three Syrian injured men who were wounded from the shelling at Baba Amr neighborhood in the Syrian province of Homs, on their hospital beds as they receive treatment, in the eastern town of Chtoura, in Bekaa valley, Lebanon, on Monday Feb. 20, 2012. Lebanese security officials said at least three wounded Syrians were brought for treatment in the eastern town of Chtoura. The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity in line with regulations, said the wounded came from the Baba Amr attacks. Syria's military sent tanks and other reinforcements toward the restive central city of Homs on Monday in what appears to be preparations by President Bashar Assad's regime for an offensive aimed at retaking rebel-held neighborhoods, activists said. (AP Photo/Samer Husseini)

BEIRUT (AP) ? Syrian tanks and troops massed Monday outside the resistance stronghold of Homs for a possible ground assault that one activist warned could unleash a new round of fierce and bloody urban combat even as the Red Cross tried to broker a cease-fire to allow emergency aid in.

A flood of military reinforcements has been a prelude to previous offensives by President Bashar Assad's regime, which has tried to use its overwhelming firepower to crush an opposition that has been bolstered by defecting soldiers and hardened by 11 months of street battles.

"The human loss is going to be huge if they retake Baba Amr," said Rami Abdul-Rahman, who heads the Britain-based activist group Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

Russia's U.N. Ambassador Vitaly Churkin said Russia will put forward a proposal at the U.N. Security Council in the coming days regarding humanitarian aid to Syria, the Itar-Tass news agency reported.

Churkin was quoted by the agency as telling Vesti 24 television on Monday that the council "could undertake concrete steps aimed at solving humanitarian issues, relying, among other things, on the fact that Damascus allowed the Red Cross to bring humanitarian aid to some regions."

Churkin gave no details about the proposal, his spokesman Anton Uspensky told AP. Russia and China have vetoed two Security Council resolutions backing Arab League plans aimed at ending the conflict and condemning the government crackdown.

The central city of Homs ? and in particular the opposition district known as Baba Amr ? has become a critical ground for both sides.

The opposition has lionized it as "Syria's Misrata" after the Libyan city where rebels fought off a brutal government siege. Assad's regime wants desperately to erase the embarrassing defiance in Syria's third-largest city after weeks of shelling, including a barrage of mortars that killed up to 200 people earlier this month. At least nine people were killed in shelling Monday, activists said.

Another massive death toll would only bring further international isolation on Assad from Western and Arab leaders.

"The massacre in Syria goes on," said U.S. Sen. John McCain during a visit to Cairo, where he urged Washington and its allies to find way to help arm and equip Syrian rebels.

McCain, a senior member of the Senate Armed Service Committee, said he did not support direct U.S. weapons supplies to Syrian opposition forces, but has suggested the Arab League or others could help bolster the fighting power of the anti-Assad groups. The U.S., he said, could assist with equipment such as medical supplies or global positioning devices.

"It is time we gave them the wherewithal to fight back and stop the slaughter," he said.

Assad's fall also would be a potentially devastating blow for his close ally Iran, which counts on Syria as its most reliable Arab ally and a pathway for aid to Tehran's patron Hezbollah in Lebanon. But McCain urged for "like-minded" Western and Arab nations also to guard against attempts by al-Qaida or other extremists to exploit a leadership vacuum if the regime crumbles.

"For us to sit back and do nothing while people are being slaughtered ... is an affront to everything America stands for and believes in," said McCain, suggesting that the Republicans could seek to make Syria a central campaign issue in this year's U.S. presidential election.

But U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, on a visit to Mexico on Monday, dodged a question about whether the U.S. could accept Arab countries or others arming the Syrian rebels.

We are all working for the planned friends of Syria meeting at the end of this week, which we think will give us a chance to come together and chart a way forward," she said.

She said the meeting in Tunisia "will demonstrate the Assad regime is increasingly isolated and that the brave Syrian people need our support and solidarity."

But she said that should be expressed through humanitarian help and encouragement to the Syrian opposition to promise that everyone they will be represented in a new Syria.

In Cairo, Arab League Secretary-General Nabil Elaraby suggested at a news conference that Russia and China ? two countries that recently supported Damascus by vetoing a U.N. Security Council resolution condemning Assad's regime ? may be shifting their positions.

"There are some indications, especially from China and to some degree from Russia that there may be a change in their stance," he said, without elaborating.

Syria-based activist Mustafa Osso told The Associated Press that Assad's military should face strong resistance as residents plan to fight until "the last person." He added that Homs is facing "savage shelling that does not differentiate between military or civilians targets."

The Baba Amr neighborhood on Homs' southwest edge has become the centerpiece of the city's opposition. Hundreds of army defectors are thought to be taking shelter there, clashing with troops in hit-and-run attacks each day.

Amateur videos posted online showed what activists said were shells falling into Baba Amr. Black smoke billowed from residential areas. Phone lines and Internet connections have been cut with the city, making it difficult to get firsthand accounts from Homs residents.

In Geneva, a spokeswoman for the International Committee of the Red Cross said the group has been in talks with Syrian authorities and opposition groups to negotiate a cease-fire in some of the most violence-torn areas.

"We are currently discussing several possibilities with all those concerned, and it includes a cessation of fighting in the most affected areas," the spokeswoman, Carla Haddad, told the AP.

She said the talks weren't aimed at resolving any of the entrenched political differences.

"The idea is to be able to facilitate swift access to people in need," Haddad said.

Clashes between military rebels and Syrian forces are growing more frequent and the defectors have managed to take control of small pieces of territory in the north as well as parts of Homs province, which is Syria's largest stretching from the border with Lebanon in the west to Iraq and Jordan in the east. Increasingly, Syria appears to be careening toward an all-out civil war.

Activists believe Assad may be trying to subdue Homs ? an important stronghold for anti-Assad groups ? before a planned referendum Sunday on a new constitution. The charter would allow a bigger role for political opposition to challenge Assad's Baath Party, which has controlled Syria since a 1963 coup.

But the leaders of the uprising have dismissed the referendum as an attempt at superficial reforms that do nothing to crack the regime's hold on power.

"We have called for a boycott of the referendum which cannot be held while parts of Syria are a war zone," said Omar Idilbi, a Beirut-based member of the opposition Syrian National Council.

The U.N. last gave a death toll for the conflict in January, saying 5,400 had been killed in 2011 alone. But hundreds more have been killed since, according to activist groups. The group Local Coordination Committees says more than 7,300 have been killed since March of last year. There is no way to independently verify the numbers, however, as Syria bans almost all foreign journalists and human rights organizations.

In the western Hama province, troops backed by armored personnel carriers and military buses stormed several villages, conducting raids and arrests. A 32-year-old man was killed by gunfire from a security checkpoint in the area, activists said.

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Associated Press writers Frank Jordans in Geneva, Bradley Klapper in Mexico, Edith M. Lederer at the United Nations, and Sarah El-Deeb in Cairo contributed to this report.

Associated Press

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Nanoparticles in food, vitamins could harm human health, researchers warn

ScienceDaily (Feb. 16, 2012) ? Billions of engineered nanoparticles in foods and pharmaceuticals are ingested by humans daily, and new Cornell research warns they may be more harmful to health than previously thought.

A research collaboration led by Michael Shuler, the Samuel B. Eckert Professor of Chemical Engineering and the James and Marsha McCormick Chair of Biomedical Engineering, studied how large doses of polystyrene nanoparticles -- a common, FDA-approved material found in substances from food additives to vitamins -- affected how well chickens absorbed iron, an essential nutrient, into their cells.

The results were reported online Feb. 12 in the journal Nature Nanotechnology.

According to the study, high-intensity, short-term exposure to the particles initially blocked iron absorption, whereas longer-term exposure caused intestinal cell structures to change, allowing for a compensating uptick in iron absorption.

The researchers tested both acute and chronic nanoparticle exposure using human gut cells in petri dishes as well as live chickens and reported matching results. They chose chickens because these animals absorb iron into their bodies similarly to humans, and they are also similarly sensitive to micronutrient deficiencies, explained Gretchen Mahler, Ph.D. '08, the paper's first author and former Cornell graduate student and postdoctoral associate.

The researchers used commercially available, 50-nanometer polystyrene carboxylated particles that are generally considered safe for human consumption. They found that following acute exposure, a few minutes to a few hours after consumption, both the absorption of iron in the in vitro cells and the chickens decreased.

But following exposure of 2 milligrams per kilogram for two weeks -- a slower, more chronic intake -- the structure of the intestinal villi began to change and increase in surface area. This was an effective physiological remodeling that led to increased iron absorption.

"This was a physiological response that was unexpected," Mahler said.

Shuler noted that in some sense this intestinal villi remodeling was positive because it shows the body adapts to challenges. But it serves to underscore how such particles, which have been widely studied and considered safe, cause barely detectable changes that could lead to, for example, over-absorption of other, harmful compounds.

Human exposure to nanoparticles is only increasing, Shuler continued.

"Nanoparticles are entering our environment in many different ways," Shuler said. "We have some assurance that at a gross level they are not harmful, but there may be more subtle effects that we need to worry about."

The paper included Cornell co-authors Mandy Esch, a research associate in biomedical engineering; Elad Tako, a research associate at the Robert W. Holley Center for Agriculture and Health; Teresa Southard, assistant professor of biomedical sciences; Shivaun Archer, senior lecturer in biomedical engineering; and Raymond Glahn, senior scientist with the USDA Agricultural Research Service and courtesy associate professor in the Department of Food Science. The work was supported by the National Science Foundation; New York State Office of Science, Technology and Academic Research; Army Corp of Engineers; and U.S. Department of Agriculture.

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France, Aisne (02) Guise : Familist?re : cour int?rieure, pavillon gauche

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? Ne pouvant faire un palais de la chaumi?re ou du galetas de chaque famille ouvri?re, nous avons voulu mettre la demeure de l?ouvrier dans un palais le Familist?re, en effet, n?est pas autre chose, c?est le palais du travail, c?est le PALAIS SOCIAL de l?avenir.
Ce qu?il n?est pas attainable de faire au profit de familles ?parpill?es et sans lien, les am?liorations qu?on ne peut introduire dans le tohu-bohu des habitations ouvri?res, ni ? la ville, ni ? la campagne, ni dans les caves, ni dans les mansardes habit?es ce que ne permettent pas m?me les habitations ouvri?res isol?es les mieux construites, quel qu?en soit le syst?me : le Familist?re le permet, le palais social le rend feasible, bien plus, il le rend n?cessaire. ?

Jean-Baptiste-Andr? Godin La Richesse au service du peuple, le Familist?re de Guise. 1875.

Les chiffres du Familist?re : ( resource Wikip?dia )

10 millions de briques sont n?cessaires ? la building des trois pavillons du Palais Social.
30 000 m? de surfaces sont offerts par l?ensemble des trois pavillons.
one kilom?tre de coursives parcourt les trois pavillons du Palais.
500 fen?tres percent les fa?ades des trois unit?s d?habitation.
495 appartements sont am?nag?s dans l?ensemble des cinq pavillons du Familist?re avant 1918.
1 748 personnes habitent au Familist?re en 1889.
50 berceaux peuvent ?tre install?s dans la nourricerie du Familist?re.
796 invit?s participent au banquet de la cinqui?me f?te du Travail dans la cour du pavillon central en 1872.
one 000 spectateurs prennent place au th??tre en 1914.
1 526 employ?s travaillent dans les usines de la Soci?t? du Familist?re en 1887.
2 500 est le nombre de record d?employ?s de l?Association du Familist?re de Guise et ? Bruxelles en 1930.
four 000 mod?les d?appareils et d?accessoires sont fabriqu?s par la Soci?t? du Familist?re en 1914.
210 000 appareils sont exp?di?s par les usines de Guise et Bruxelles en 1913-1914.
664, c?est le nombre de pages qui composent le livre Solutions Sociales publi? par Godin en 1871.

JEAN-BAPTISTE GODIN ( ENGLISH )

Jean-Baptiste Andr? Godin (26 January 1817 -29 January 1888) was a French industrialist and social experimentor born on the 26th of January 1817 at Esqu?h?ries (Aisne).
The son of an artisan, he entered an iron-performs at an early age, and at seventeen created a tour of France as journeyman. Returning to Esqu?h?ries in 1837, he started a little factory for the manufacture of castings for heating-stoves. The business enhanced quickly, and for the function of railway facilities was transferred to Guise in 1846. At the time of Godin?s death in 1888 the annual output was above four millions of francs (4,160,000), and in 1908 the workers numbered over 2000 and the output was over 280,000.
An ardent disciple of Charles Fourier, he advanced a significant sum of funds in the direction of the disastrous Fourierist experiment of V. P. Considerant (q.v.) in Texas (recognized as La Reunion. He profited, nevertheless, by its failure, and in 1859 started the Familist?re, or community settlement, of Guise on much more meticulously laid plans.

The Familist?re forms a town inside the town of Guise. It comprises, in addition to a huge factory, three huge buildings, each and every 4 stories large, capable of housing all the function-people, each loved ones having two or three rooms. The major building consists of three rectangular blocks joined at the corners. Every single of these blocks has a central court covered with a glass roof beneath which young children can play in all weather. There is no church of any sort. (There are, of program, churches inside the rest of Guise). At the back of the primary block there was a nursery. There is a separate block, identified as the &quoteconomat&quot, containing different shops, refreshment rooms and recreation rooms of numerous types(?), outlets for the purchase of groceries, drapery and each necessity. This has not too long ago (2008) been restored and is now a cafe, a shop selling books, postcards and so on and an exhibition area. There were also allotments for the employees.
Opposite the main block there was a developing containing a theater for concerts and dramatic entertainments and a major school. There was also a communal laundry and swimming pool. This was a number of a long time ago derelict but has now been restored. The swimming pool is nevertheless a swimming poll but the laundry is a meeting room and the drying room is now (2008) an exhibition room. In 1880 the whole was turned into a co-operative society, with provision by which it sooner or later became the house of the workers.
Godin manufactured cookers and heating stoves of many sorts primarily made from cast iron castings. Occasionally these have been enameled. These are nevertheless to be located in use all above France. They can be identified for sale on eBay.
This company was still owned by the workers in the 1950s but quickly following was taken more than by Le Creuset. It is not apparent that the factory is still functioning. It is seems the domestic constructing had been privatised. The state of the domestic buildings was deteriorating but has recently been awarded EU cash for it to be restored.
In 1871 Godin was elected deputy for Aisne, but retired in 1876 to devote himself to the management of the Familist?re. In 1882 he was developed a Knight of the Legion of Honor.
Godin was the author of Solutions sociales (1871) Les Socialistes et les Droits du travail (1874) Mutualit? sociale et association du capital et du travail (1880) La Republique du travail et la reforme parlementaire (1889). See Bernardot, Le Familist?re de Guise et son fondateur (Paris, 1887) Fischer, Die Familist?re Godins (Berlin, 1890) Lestelle, Etude sur le Familist?re de Guise (Paris, 1904) D. F. P., Le Familist?re illustr, r?sultals de vingt ans d?association, 1880-1900 (Eng. trans., Twenty-eight a long time of co-partnership at Guise, by A. Williams, 1908).

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