Socially Responsible

Investment and
Sustainability
By: Group 7
The social enterprise
movement is growing
and gathering supporters
across the globe as an
innovative approach to
business activity
offering disadvantaged
population a path to
human development
 Used to refer either
to an activity
Social earned out to
enterprise particular
organizations and
institutions
Socially Responsible
Investments
have a special role to play in
alleviating poverty, creating
empowerment and establishing
entitlement as the gross roots
level of socioeconomic
development. They require easily
accessible, low cost, and
amenable fix solution
Ethical Banking
Refers to financial services that are
designed to promote equity and sustainable
development. So-called 'ethical banks'
believe that profitability should not only be
measured in financial terms, but also in
social terms
Ethical investments
• Ethical banks, as well as regular
banks and investment companies,
have developed all kinds of “ethical
funds” also called “socially
responsible investment” (SRI)

• involves considering not only

financial returns but also the social
and environmental impact of
investment choices.
Indicators of Sustainability
How it operates inhouse How its policies Promote sustainable
development
Social and Initiatives to Promote
Environmental Societal Impact: Sustainability:
Aspects: • Accessibility and
Affordability • Designing Products for
• Labour and Work • Social Includsi Better Social and
Environmental
Conditions Practices
• Recycling Environmental • Collaboration with
Initiatives Impact: Stakeholders
• Energy • Resource Usage • Investment in
Consumption • Emissions Sustainable
Reduction Technologies
Reduction
 Strategies for Ethical Investment Selection
Negative Screening: Excluding entities with unacceptable
policies, practices, or products/services.

Positive Screening: Actively supporting entities with strong

social and environmental policies.

Best of Class: Investing in companies outperforming peers in

social and environmental performance.

Engagement: Utilizing ownership power to advocate for

sustainable corporate practices.
Economy of Communion
Enterprise

help those in need through their profits, as

well as by how they treat their employees,
clients, and the general public. Although the
initiative started as a religious movement, in
the core of the Focolare Movement, it is
evolving into a humanitarian movement
irrespective of religious allegiance.
What is Impact Investing
• The deployment of funds into
investments that generate a
measurable and beneficial social or
environmental impact alongside a
financial return on investment.

• An innovative way of boosting the

private sector’s contribution to
sustainable development can be
achieved with impact investing.
 Mission Related Investing

• Mission-related investments are investments made by

organizations with the primary goal of generating both a
financial return and a positive social or environmental
• impact. These investments align an organization's
investment strategy with their mission and values, and
can support initiatives that are consistent with their goals.
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