Partnerships
Sustainalytics builds strategic partnerships with organizations such as research firms or global leading index providers to further extend our research coverage at the local level and help local investors to makes informed long-term investment decisions.
SUSTINVEST
Sustainalytics has formed a strategic partnership with Sustinvest, Korea's leading responsible investment research and consulting firm. Together we will provide responsible investors in Korea with global environmental, social and governance (ESG) analysis that is informed by local knowledge and expertise. In turn, our international clients will recieve enhanced coverage of Korean-based equities.
In addition to increased research capabilities, Sustainalytics and Sustinvest will be exploring new products and services for the Korean market, including an ESG ranking of Korean companies that will be published in 2012.
About Sustinvest - ESG Information, Analytics and Strategy
Sustinvest is the first SRI research and consulting institution established in Korea. Our ESGValueTM Model enables us to systematically analyze and evaluate risk and opportunity factors related to corporate ESG issues and performance of the 400 listed companies in the KRX (Korea Stock Exchange). ESGValueTM is a multilayered rating system that considers corporate financial performance, non-financial performance such as ESG and innovation factors, and characteristics of different industry. Based on this evaluation model, Sustinvest is currently providing advisory services to 1.2 trillion (KRW) of National Pension Services’ SRI funds, and these SRI funds have outperformed the benchmark in the past three and half years and is continuously showing satisfactory investment return.
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STOXX Limited
Sustainalytics has established a partnership with STOXX Limited, the market-moving provider of innovative, substantial and global index concepts. In April 2011, STOXX introduced the STOXX Global ESG Leaders Index family, an innovative series of ESG (environmental, social, governance) indices which is based on sustainability data provided by Sustainalytics. The new index family will set standards in terms of full transparency and comprehensiveness in the ESG indexing space. The key innovation in the STOXX Global ESG Leaders Index family is the fact that all ratings for the E, S, and G categories, as well as the methodology used to construct them, is made public on STOXX’s website, as well as on a newly launched webportal hosted by and integrated in Deutsche Boerse’s website for sustainable investments. Also, to ensure the quality of the index and the integrity of the underlying index methodology, an independent advisory committee has been established to give advice on the general ESG methodology underlying the indices.
About STOXX Limited
STOXX Ltd. is a global index provider, currently calculating a global, comprehensive index family of over 3,700 strictly rules-based and transparent indices. Best known for the leading European equity indices EURO STOXX 50, STOXX Europe 50 and STOXX Europe 600, STOXX Ltd. maintains and calculates the STOXX Global Index family which consists of total market, broad and blue-chip indices for the regions Americas, Europe, Asia, and Pacific, the sub-regions Latin America and BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China), as well as global markets.
The STOXX indices are licensed to over 400 companies around the world as underlyings for Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs), Futures & Options, Structured Products and passively-managed investment funds. Three of the top Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) in Europe and 30 percent of all assets under management are based on STOXX indices. STOXX Ltd. holds Europe's number one and the world's number three position in the derivatives segment.
In addition, STOXX Ltd. is the marketing agent for the indices of Deutsche Boerse AG and SIX Group AG, amongst them the DAX and the SMI indices.
STOXX Ltd. is part of Deutsche Boerse AG and SIX Group AG.
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