RobecoSAM’s annual Corporate Sustainability Assessment (CSA) determines which companies receive a coveted spot in world’s first global sustainability indices…
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– Assessment provides insights into business practices of world’s largest companies
– Electronic Equipment, Instruments & Components industry improved the most, while Life Sciences Tools & Services saw biggest performance decline in terms of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) factors
– World’s largest companies perform best in Code of Conduct / Compliance criteria and struggle most with Operational Eco-Efficiency
S&P Dow Jones Indices, one of the world’s leading providers of financial market indices, and RobecoSAM, the investment specialist focused exclusively on Sustainability Investing, today announced the results of the annual Dow Jones Sustainability Indices (“DJSI”) review. The three largest additions and deletions (by free-float market capitalization) to the DJSI World this year include: Additions: Bank of America Corp, Telefonica SA, BHP Billiton Ltd Deletions: Cisco Systems Inc, PepsiCo Inc, Royal Bank of Canada
The components list for the DJSI will be published on the Sustainability Indices website on Monday, September 14, 2015. All changes are effective on Monday, September 21, 2015.
Launched in 1999, the DJSI World is the first global index to track the leading sustainability-driven companies worldwide based on RobecoSAM’s analysis of financially material Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) factors. RobecoSAM invited the world’s largest 3,400 companies from developed and emerging markets to take part in its annual Corporate Sustainability Assessment (CSA). This year, RobecoSAM assessed 85% of the invited universe’s free float market capitalization, for the DJSI review.
Guido Giese, Head of Indices, RobecoSAM: “Over the years the DJSI index family has not only come to be the gold standard for corporate sustainability but has also become a competitive platform where companies receive recognition for their sustainability practices. The CSA is a state of the art, in-depth sustainability performance assessment methodology. Thanks to its broad reach, the results of the CSA are one of the leading sources of information on how listed companies around the globe are exercising financially material ESG practices. The entire DJSI index family benefits from that.”
David Blitzer, Managing Director and Chairman of the Index Committee at S&P Dow Jones Indices: “More and more investors look at companies’ environmental policies and track records in making their investment decisions. The Dow Jones Sustainability Indices are comprehensive benchmarks that allow investors to gauge the collective performance of those companies that meet the RobecoSAM standard for corporate sustainability and to formulate global allocations consistent with sustainable investment standards and practices.”
Source: ETFWorld.com
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