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Find out more about Responsible Investment (RI) and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).
Vigeo Eiris has based its reference framework on these principles. They can be consulted here.
PRI website: unpri.org
- invest all or part of a portfolio in RI
- manage assets actively or passively
- use a formula
- define a management approach based on proprietary criteria.
In addition, a growing number of international finance players adhere to the Responsible Investment Principles based on the view that environmental, social and governance risks are likely to influence the valorisation of their investments and that it is part of their fiduciary responsibility. This initiative, launched in 2006, has gained more than 1400 international signatories from more than 50 countries, representing $59 billion of assets.
PRI : unpri.org
For more information, please consult:
- GSIA: gsi-alliance.org
- Novethic: novethic.fr
- Eurosif: eurosif.org
- from the company: in the first instance, analysts consult all publicly available documents (annual reports, sustainable development reports, press releases) before systematically contacting the company for further information
- from stakeholders: analysts rely on field actors and observers, such as trade unions, NGOs and international organisations, to cross-check the information received from the companies. In its analysis process
Vigeo Eiris does not include information from sources that cannot be traced or are given by non-identifiable stakeholders. As a consequence, non-referenced oral communications or anonymous letters sent to the agency are not taken into account.
Today different RI labels exist.
The first such label was created by Novethic in 2009. Until 2016, this label was given each year to more than a hundred European funds integrating ESG criteria in their financial management.
A second label, the FNG label, was created in 2014. As a result of a strategic partnership between the German SIF and Novethic this label aims at promoting and rewarding funds that integrate ESG criteria in German-speaking countries. This label was given for the first time in 2015.
The first public SRI label was created in France in 2016. Announced on September 28th , 2015 by the French Minister of Finance during the opening day of the French SRI Week, this label was officially implemented when the decree and its order were enacted on January 8, 2016. The requirements of this label, as well as its allocation procedures, are defined by public authorities.
Read more about the Public ISR Label in France (French only)
To know more: novethic.fr