The effect of socially responsible investing on mutual fund performance

Abstract

In the presented paper there is analyzed the essence and development of socially reponsible investing, also there is made a review of socially responsible market worldwide and finally is presented results of a comparative analysis of socially responsible mutual funds and benchmarks, like S&P 500 TR and with Index Morningstar Moderate Target Risk. Presented results of comparison of SRI funds with selected benchmarks show that investing in socially responsible mutual funds for the potential investor could be effetive.