Transparency

Bank Sarasin is a member of the European Sustainable and Responsible Investment Forum (EUROSIF), the industry body for SRI. In September 2003 EUROSIF published a transparency guideline. This is intended to allow potentially interested private investors to obtain as clear and as comprehensive a picture as possible of the quality of sustainable investment funds. Sarasin has agreed to be bound by this guideline.

For Sarasin, providing investors and other interested parties with clear and precise information about its investment products has always been a top priority. This is a natural complement to the transparency demanded from companies and institutions by our sustainability analysts in their daily work.

                 
For this reason, Bank Sarasin has been one of the first providers of sustainability funds in Europe to commit to publishing information on its sustainable funds in accordance with the definitive version of EUROSIF’s transparency guidelines. A copy of these guidelines can be found on the Internet on the homepage of the Forum Nachhaltige Geldanlagen. Our corresponding document can be found on the relevant product page.

         

Furthermore Bank Sarasin is involved in the following important collective investor initiatives:

  • Carbon Disclosure Project
 www.cdproject.net
  • UN Principles for Responsible Investment
www.unpri.org
  • CDP Water Disclosure-Initiative
www.cdproject.net
  • European Sustainable Investment Forum
www.eurosif.org
  • Forum für Nachhaltige Geldanlage
www.forum-ng.org
  • Emerging Markets Disclosure
www.socialinvest.org
  • United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI)
 www.unepfi.org