Brown bag seminars

Wednesday March 19, 2025, 2 pm – 3 pm.

Room: S.A.108

Prinsstraat 13, 2000 Antwerp

Program:

Research paper presentation by Naciye Sekerci (KULeuven).

Sustainable investors: value and values

Abstract:

Using a representative sample of the Dutch population, this paper characterizes two groups of sustainable investors in detail: those who invest in sustainable assets primarily for social reasons (social sustainable investors) and those who do so primarily for financial reasons (financial sustainable investors). We find that social sustainable investors allocate a higher percentage of their portfolio to sustainable investments while the group of financial sustainable investors is larger in number. Compared to traditional investors, social sustainable investors have a higher level of education, trust, fewer greenwashing beliefs, are more likely left-wing and risk averse, while financial sustainable investors are relatively similar to traditional investors but have lower income. Lastly, we show that lack of information is the main barrier to investing sustainably.