Moskowitz Prize for Socially Responsible Investing
Winning the prestigious Moskowitz Prize—the only global award that recognizes outstanding quantitative research in socially responsible investing (SRI)—is no small feat. Since 1996, when US SIF helped to launch the annual prize, winners have explored topics like shareholder activism, socially responsible mutual funds and whether social responsibility in investing is a catalyst to financial performance.
Congratulations to the 2012 Moskowitz Prize Winners: Elroy Dimson (London Business School), Oğuzhan Karakaş (Boston College), and Xi Li (Temple University), who were selected from over 40 submissions for their paper “Active Ownership”. Please click here to read more about this year’s and previous years' Moskowitz Prize Winners.
Studies are reviewed by an expert panel of judges from both academic and investment circles, and the winning paper is awarded $5,000 and announced at the annual The SRI Conference.
Papers are judged on the following criteria:
- practical significance to practitioners of socially responsible investing
- appropriateness and rigor of quantitative methods
- novelty of results
Please click here for the call for papers for the 2013 Moskowitz Prize; the submission deadline is July 1, 2013 11:59PM PST. For questions regarding submission, please contact Amy Dinh at amy_dinh@haas.berkeley.edu; for other questions regarding the Moskowitz Prize, please contact Lloyd Kurtz at lkurtz@haas.berkeley.edu or Nadja Guenster at guenster@haas.berkeley.edu.
The Moskowitz Prize is named for Milton Moskowitz, one of the first investigators to publish comparisons of the financial performance of screened and unscreened portfolios, including “The 100 Best Companies to Work for in America.”
Sponsors for the Prize include Calvert Group, First Affirmative Financial Network, Nelson Capital Management, Neuberger Berman, Rockefeller and Co., and Trillium Asset Management.
Maastricht University
"Acknowledgement like the Moskowitz Prize is important for young researchers like me. We spend a lot of nights, months, almost years on this research and it's really great to be acknowledged for it."
