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The Handbook on Climate-Related Investing across Asset Classes, was recently published by The Institute for Responsible Investing (IRI), a project of the Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenbship.  The 60 page handbook was designed to "facilitate efforts by investors, fund managers, and consultants to assess the impacts of climate change on portfolios . . . ."

The Moskowitz Prize is awarded annually at the SRI in the Rockies Conference.  The Prize is awarded for excellence in academic research on a topic germane to the sustainable and responsible investment industry by the Center for Responsible Business at the Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley.

The Prize is named after research pioneer Milt Moskowitz, one of the first researchers to look for the connection between good corporate citizenship and profitability. 

Summaries of the winning studies are available through the Center's website.

The most recent winners include:

2009

"The Economics and Politics of Corporate Social Performance"

David Baron - Professor of Political Economy and Strategy at Stanford University

Hoje Jo - Assistant Professor of Finance at Santa Clara University

Maretno Agus Harjoto - Assistant Professor of Finance at the Graziadio School of Business and Finance at Pepperdine University

 

2008

"The Wages of Social Responsibility"

Meir Statman and Denys Glushkov
Santa Clara University's Leavey School of Business

Honorable Mention

"The Performance of Socially Responsible Mutual Funds: The Role of Fees and Management Companies"

Javier Gil-Bazo, Pablo Ruiz-Verdu, and Andre A.P. Santos Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

2007

"Does the Stock Market Fully Value Intangibles? Employee Satisfaction and Equity Prices"

Alex Edmans
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School

 

2006

"Monitoring the Monitor: Evaluating CalPERS' Shareholder Activism"

Brad Barber
University of California at Davis

 

2005

"The Economic Value of Corporate Eco-Efficiency"

Nadja Guenster, Jeroen Derwall, Rob Bauer and Kees Koedijk
Erasmus University 

Honorable Mention

"Socially Responsible Indexes: Composition, performance, and tracking errors"

Meir Statman
Santa Clara University's Leavey School of Business