1. Responsible investing in an unsustainable world -- 2. The influence of responsible investment -- 3. Fiduciary finance law -- 4. Fiduciary law in retail and institutional finance -- 5. Sovereign wealth funds -- 6. The public fiduciary : in nature's trust.

The dramatic growth of sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) in recent decades has made them a significant phenomenon in global financial markets and raised the prospect of more enlightened investing that respects the environmental underpinnings of economic prosperity. Until the Global Financial Crisis...

Debates about the legality of socially responsible investing (SRI) with regard to institutional investors' fiduciary duties have focused on whether SRI is “financially material” to investment performance. This article examines the less considered question of whether SRI may also be legally...

This book investigates fiduciary law's influence on the financial economy's environmental performance. It focuses on how the law affects responsible investing and considers possible legal reforms to shift financial markets towards sustainability. Fiduciary law governs how trustees, fund managers...

This article assesses the fiduciary law context governing socially responsible investing (SRI) in retail funds in order to understand the scope for promoting sustainable development. Most scholarship on this subject has focused on institutional investors such as pension plans, yet the legal,...