“…Statman (2000), Schröder (2004), Elsayed and Paton (2004), Benson, Brailsford, and Humphrey (2006), Statman (2006), Bauer, Otten, and Rad (2006), Stenström and Thorell (2007), Statman and Glushkov (2008), Cortez et al (2009), Machado, Machado, andCorrar (2009) compared the performance of responsible funds/indexes against the performance of conventional funds/indexes and they concluded that differences between the returns are not statistically significant. Machado et al (2009) argued that the comparable returns of the indexes can be explained by the fact that a significant number of companies are comprised in more than one index at the same time. Statman and Glushkov (2008) referred that the return advantage of the positive screening companies is offset by the return disadvantage from the exclusion of companies from industries as tobacco, alcohol, gambling, firearms, military and nuclear operations.…”