Strategic consulting - Brochure

As at May, 20th 2014How to integrate ESG criteria into your investment decisionsModule 1:Concept DevelopmentAn investment concept tailored to your organisation’s particular circumstances forms the basis for the integration of ESG criteria into your investment decisions. With more than 20 years of experience in the sustainable investment field to draw on, we can help you develop an appro-priate concept structured around negative and positive criteria and an engagement approach.Module 2:Portfolio CheckTaking the concept we have developed together as a starting point, we will look at how far your current investments go toward meeting the spe-cified requirements, e.g. with regard to exclusion criteria. This will involve screening your portfolio holdings on an individual issuer basis. We will then draw up a comprehensive report on the results of the analysis. This will form the basis for defining the next steps in the implementation process. There are three basic strategies here, which can be implemented either individually or in combination:Module 3a:Exclusion ListsModule 3b:Best-in-Class UniversesModule 3c:EngagementFrom our overall universe, we will filter out those issuers which breach the exclu-sion criteria you have specified. When se-lecting these criteria, you can either use international standards such as those of the UN Global Compact as a guideline or compile a list of your own choosing. Fol-lowing the filtering process, you will re-ceive a list of issuers in which you or your asset manager should not invest.From our overall universe, we will compi-le a list of those issuers which meet the requirements that you have defined. To do this, we will take into account both the exclusion criteria you have selected and the positive criteria relating to social and environmental sustainability. When fac-toring in the positive criteria, we will take oekom’s ratings and the Prime status awarded by oekom research to leading companies and countries as our basis. You will then receive a list of issuers in which you or your asset manager should invest.The engagement approach involves you, either acting alone or together with other investors, entering into a constructive dialogue with companies in order to achieve the necessary improvements in sustainable company management. We will prepare all the information necessa-ry to enable you to enter into such a dia-logue in full possession of all the facts. This will include selecting suitable com-panies, documenting the specific short-comings of the companies concerned and handling the correspondence. If you wish, we will put you in touch with other investors who are pursuing similar goals. Module 4:ControllingOn request, we will carry out regular checks, e.g. at six-monthly intervals, of whether the negative and positive criteria have been applied con-sistently and of whether your investments are meeting the requirements you have specified. Basisoekom Corporate Universe, comprising around 3,500 issuers from important national and international indexes, as well as oekom Country Universe, comprising 56 countries and the EU