Seminar 217, Risk Management: "Insuring against wrongdoing? Socially responsible investing by mutual funds" (Online)
Risk Seminar
Oct 12, 2021, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Online via Zoom | Happening As Scheduled
Vikramaditya (Vic) Khanna, University of Michigan (Speaker - Featured)
ABSTRACT: We examine whether mutual funds increase the level of their socially-responsible investing (SRI) to reduce the negative consequences stemming from alleged wrongful behavior by fund insiders. Relying on a novel hand-collected dataset covering 17 years of funds’ fidelity bond claims (for theft and embezzlement by insiders) and errors and omissions claims (for mistakes) we find that funds...