Moskowitz Prize for Socially Responsible Investing
Click here for the 2012 Moskowitz Prize Call for Papers
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 the Social Investment Forum helped launch the annual prize, past winners have explored topics like shareholder activism, socially responsible mutual funds and the broader topic of whether social responsibility in investing is an inhibitor or a catalyst to financial performance.
Congratuations to the 2011 Moskowitz Prize Winners: Sadok El Ghoul (University of Alberta), Omrane Guedhami (Moore School of Business- University of South Carolina), Chuck C. Y. Kwok (Moore School of Business- University of South Carolina), and Dev Mishra (Edwards School of Business- University of Saskatchewan). Please click here to read more about this year 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 SRI in the Rockies 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.
For more information on the Moskowitz Prize, please contact the Moskowitz Program Administrator, Lloyd Kurtz, at lkurtz@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., Neuberger Berman, 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."
