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The Study On The Development Of Socially Responsible Investing In China

Posted on:2011-02-10Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:W W ZhangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2189360332458274Subject:Accounting
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As a new type of investment, socially responsible investing fund has been growing rapidly in recent years, and becoming an important part of the investment market. Compared with conventional investment fund, socially responsible investing fund realizes not only financial performance, but also social performance and environmental performance. With the development of socially responsible investing fund, experts have studied this new investment. The studies on SRI fund has changed from focusing on the comparison of financial performance between conventional investing fund and SRI fund to the more important effect of SRI-the effect of SRI on corporate behavior, and encouraging corporate to commit social responsibility. At present, both academic study and practice of SRI fund are in stating phase in China. Academic research focuses on the introduction of SRI fund, its conception, history, current situation in western developed countries and theirs successful experiences. In practice, there is only one SRI fund in mainland, which called Xing Ye socially responsible investing. This fund fills the gap of the socially responsible investment products to some extent. At this stage, if we want to develop SRI, we should work hard in many aspects. Experts and scholars not only active in research, but also promote the development in practice, which is the important part of sustainable development.Paper introduces the concept of SRI fund, reviews the development process of SRI fund, and introduces three ways of SRI fund. Paper reviews the development process of SRI fund in China and points out the problems of SRI fund, introduces the successful experience in foreign countries. SRI funds, which are the dominant market players of the socially responsible investment, can not only provide investors with investment targets, and can promote corporate to fulfill their social responsibility. Propose the ideas on the development of SRI. The government and other relevant departments should formulate appropriate policies to regulate the development of SRI. The investors should shift investment philosophy, and participate in SRI actively. In the development of SRI fund, we should adopt some measures to promote this new invest. We should require companies to enhance their information disclosure, set up the screening system, foster the institution investors, and so on. With regard to the internal construction of SRI, paper analyzes the SRI fund manager's selection and training system, analyzes and designs the management fees of SRI funds, so encourages SRI fund's company to take part in socially responsible investing. At last, points out the construction of a scientific SRI fund performance evaluation system.
Keywords/Search Tags:Socially Responsible Investing(SRI), Corporate Social Responsibility(CSR), Screening System, Information Disclosure
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