IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/spr/sprchp/978-3-031-99906-2_3.html

Variations of a Social Finance Theme: Socially Responsible Investing, ESG, Sustainable Investing, and Impact Investing

In: The Palgrave Handbook of Social Finance

Author

Listed:
  • Hugo Benedetti

    (Universidad de los Andes (Chile))

  • Sarah Ross

    (University of Mary Washington
    Consumer Insights Analyst, Allianz Partners)

  • Sayan Sarkar

    (University of Mary Washington)

  • Andrew C. Spieler

    (Hofstra University)

Abstract

In recent years, sustainable investment has gained considerable traction among private and institutional investors, leading strategies such as socially responsible investing (SRI), environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing, and impact investing to become mainstream. This chapter examines the evolution of these investment approaches, highlighting their distinct methodologies, the challenges they face, and the opportunities they provide for driving positive societal and environmental change. Although sustainable investing is not without its challenges—including subjective criteria, varying standards, and issues with measurement—its growth reflects an increasing commitment among investors to align their financial objectives with their values. Sustainable investment offers a powerful framework for making meaningful and lasting contributions to corporate behavior and global sustainability while pursuing financial returns.

Suggested Citation

  • Hugo Benedetti & Sarah Ross & Sayan Sarkar & Andrew C. Spieler, 2025. "Variations of a Social Finance Theme: Socially Responsible Investing, ESG, Sustainable Investing, and Impact Investing," Springer Books, in: H. Kent Baker & Greg Filbeck & Halil Kiymaz (ed.), The Palgrave Handbook of Social Finance, chapter 0, pages 35-54, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-031-99906-2_3
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-99906-2_3
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a
    for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-031-99906-2_3. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.springer.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.