Sustainability - an overview

Sustainability at Sarasin

Sustainability has been at the core of Sarasin’s enduring success as a Swiss private bank for 168 years. Sustainability helps employees identify more closely with the company and creates a greater sense of trust among clients. Sustainability also allows Sarasin Group to stand out in the market place, and creates continuity through time.

Responsibility for climate and the environment

For some years now Sarasin has implemented a consistent environmental management system in an effort to steadily reduce its resource consumption and CO2 emissions wherever possible. The Sarasin Group has been carbon neutral since 2008.

Expertise and experience in sustainable investment

Sarasin is since 20 years not only a pioneer in this field, but is also market leader among providers of sustainable investment products in Switzerland, with a market share of 30% at the end of 2009.

Strong track record in sustainability

Our tradition of a sustainable corporate culture, our many years of experience in sustainable investments and our efforts to continuously improve in all aspects of sustainability have been widely recognised: in 2009 Sarasin won the German Sustainability Award.

in focus:

Sustainability report 2009 published
By focusing on the theme of ‘quality of life’, Sarasin makes a valuable contribution to the debate on sustainability. Quality of life usually means something different for every cultural sphere and to each individual. Even so, it is clear to everyone that there are certain living conditions which inevitably have a positive or negative impact on the quality of people’s lives. A combination of social, environmental and economic factors determine whether the world’s growing population is able to meet its needs – not just today, but in the future. “Quality of life is a very personal matter,” says Joachim Straehle, CEO of Bank Sarasin & Co. Ltd.

Sustainability report 2009 (2631 kB)
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