Strong financial performance can be directly linked to good corporate responsibility, according to new research by AMP Capital Investors.

This latest research breaks new ground in Australia. Although extensive research in this area has been carried out in North America and Europe, very little has been undertaken in Australia, according to AMPCI’s head of sustainable funds, Michael Anderson.

The impetus for the research was the consistent outperformance of AMPCI’s own sustainable investment fund.

“Since its inception, the AMP Capital Sustainable Australian Share Fund has consistently outperformed the ASX200 Index. We were in...