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What is Institutional Investor

Handbook of Research on Global Aspects of Sustainable Finance in Times of Crises
A legal entity that has obligations in terms of investment analysis, activities, and returns to ultimate beneficiaries. Examples of institutional investors include pension funds, insurance companies, sovereign wealth funds and mutuals funds. Institutional investors are sometimes called asset owners.
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ESG Materiality: Insights From the South African Investment Industry
Matthew D. Worthington-Smith (FarSightFirms, South Africa) and Stephanie Giamporcaro (University of Cape Town, South Africa)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-8501-6.ch011
Abstract
Sustainable finance proponents argue that integrating environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors into investment decisions should have a positive long-term material impact on financial performance and ultimately benefit wider society as a whole. This chapter is based on interviews and an ESG materiality survey that was run among 20 prominent South African asset managers. The results demonstrate that if there is a growing awareness of ESG factors among the respondents, there are some perceived tensions around how to practically embed ESG factors within investment processes. In addition, the results show that the integration of ESG factors into financial valuation are not yet mainstream and that more needs to be done to demonstrate how the integration of ESG factors within investment processes materially impacts financial performance and meanwhile contributes to the sustainable development of economies.
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An institutional investor is a nonbank person or organization that trades securities in large enough share quantities or dollar amounts that it qualifies for preferential treatment and lower commissions.
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Institutional Investors' Representativeness and Earnings Management: Evidence From a High Ownership Concentration Context
A market operator that makes systematic and substantial investments and can be identified as banks, credit unions, insurance companies, pension funds, hedge funds, REITs, investment advisors, endowments, and mutual funds.
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