Sustainable Investment - Towards a New Role for Institutional Investors
A Mistra research initiative focusing on the contribution of asset management to Sustainable Development
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Call for pre-proposals for a large-scale research programme Mistra is issuing a call for pre-proposals for a large-scale academic research programme aimed at integrating the concept of Sustainable Development in asset management and supporting institutional investors in implementing such concept using this approach in their investments. Mistra is inviting proposals for a large scale, interdisciplinary and internationally competitive academic research programme, implemented by a coordinated group of academic institutions (lead institution must be Swedish) and covering one or more research areas. The focus should be on economic, legal and social science research with, if necessary, integrated elements of the natural sciences. Selected pre-proposals will be funded with so-called planning grants, allowing researchers to further elaborate their proposal in the period between October 2004 and March 2005 in order to submit a complete programme proposal by April 1, 2005. The actual research programme is planned to start in January 2006. The level of funding for a first three-year phase could be in the order of SEK 25-30 million. Further phases could follow, if the evaluation for both scientific and practical value of the research outcomes is successful. Mistra’s vision is that institutional investors will eventually take a leading role in Sustainable Development and use their influence to change the behaviour of companies in which they invest. The present call for pre-proposals reflects the needs and requirements of such investors consulted by Mistra in the course of the past months, not necessarily the state of academic research in this area. The proposed research topics are therefore of an indicative nature – researchers are free to propose additional topics within the defined research areas. Applications for planning grants, with pre-proposals attached, must be received by Mistra by September 15, 2004.
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