Institutional Investors as a Force for Good
Institutional investors boost a company’s environmental and social performance (E&S) - a new study by Bocconi's Hannes Wagner and colleagues finds - but only if they are European. “Interestingly”, Prof. Wagner says, “we find that institutional investors don’t influence the E&S performance by buying shares of good companies and selling those of bad ones, but by engaging with firms they already own".
Institutional investors boost a company’s environmental and social performance (E&S) - a new study by Bocconi's Hannes Wagner and colleagues finds - but only if they are European. “Interestingly”, Prof. Wagner says, “we find that institutional investors don’t influence the E&S performance by buying shares of good companies and selling those of bad ones, but by engaging with firms they already own".