Brazilian pension funds and socially responsibility: a game with gains between private and public interests?

In recent years the issue “Socially Responsible Investments - SRI has been gaining a substantial space in the media and in the academic and corporate world.  It is being discussed how an investor, through such socially responsible investments, can congregate his financial interests with is...

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Autores: Santiago, Ricardo Domingues, Gomes, Eduardo Rodrigues
Formato: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2010
País:Brasil
Recursos:Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF)
Repositorio:Sistemas & Gestão
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.www.revistasg.uff.br:article/115
Acesso em linha:https://www.revistasg.uff.br/sg/article/view/V5N2A3
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Socially Responsible Investments
Pension funds
SRI
Investimentos Socialmente Responsáveis
Fundos de Pensão
RSA
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Resumo:In recent years the issue “Socially Responsible Investments - SRI has been gaining a substantial space in the media and in the academic and corporate world.  It is being discussed how an investor, through such socially responsible investments, can congregate his financial interests with issues regarding the social environmental responsibility. At the center of such discussion are the pension funds which, as institutional investors, have exercised a strong influence in the market, regarding the adoption of social environmental responsibility practices. In this sense, trough an exploratory and descriptive research, this article tries to analyze the current practices adopted by the Brazilian pension funds, in relation to Socially Responsible Investments - SRI and evaluate the growth expectations and SRI diversification of those companies, so that they may contribute more and more for the country’s development, complying with the wishes of their members and of the society in gene