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Markowitz Revisited: Social Portfolio EngineeringGasser, Stephan, Rammerstorfer, Margarethe, Weinmayer, Karl 05 1900 (has links) (PDF)
In recent years socially responsible investing has become an increasingly more
popular subject with both private and institutional investors. At the same time, a
number of scientific papers have been published on socially responsible investments
(SRIs), covering a broad range of topics, from what actually defines SRIs to the
financial performance of SRI funds in contrast to non-SRI funds. In this paper, we
revisit Markowitz' Portfolio Selection Theory and propose a modification allowing
to incorporate not only asset-specific return and risk but also a social responsibility
measure into the investment decision making process. Together with a risk-free asset,
this results in a three-dimensional capital allocation plane that allows investors to
custom-tailor their asset allocations and incorporate all personal preferences regarding
return, risk and social responsibility. We apply the model to a set of over 6,231
international stocks and find that investors opting to maximize the social impact
of their investments do indeed face a statistically significant decrease in expected
returns. However, the social responsibility/risk-optimal portfolio yields a statistically
significant higher social responsibility rating than the return/risk-optimal portfolio.
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