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Based on the world’s largest database of transparent, objective and auditable environmental, social and governance (ESG) information, the ASSET4 solutions provide an unprecedented level of information on the environmental, social and governance performance of major global corporations.
Unigestion
Unigestion is a privately owned asset management company managing assets for institutional clients and high net worth families. The company focuses exclusively on the management of innovative, highly active strategies spanning the private and public capital markets, and seeks to deliver consistently superior risk-adjusted returns within the context of each client’s long-term asset allocation.
EIC Partners AG
EIC Partners AG bridges the gap between the financial sector and the energy industry by supporting clients in efficiently allocating capital towards the mega-trends of the energy industry. Renewable energies, privatization, deregulation and the integration of commodity markets are among the key themes of their activities. The company’s business is focused in the areas of asset management and advisory services.
BNP Paribas Investment Partners
BNP Paribas Investment Partners brings together the full palette of asset management expertise of the BNP Paribas group. Through a unique platform that offers immediate and simplified access to a broad range of specialist Partner companies, BNP Paribas Investment Partners has become a leader among the multi-specialist asset managers. At 30 September 2008, assets under management amounted to €326 billion*, nearly half of which was managed for institutional clients. With 2,400 professionals serving clients in 70 countries, BNP Paribas Investment Partners draws on over half a century of asset management experience and has seen ten years of steady growth through acquisitions and joint-ventures.
* assets under advisory included
KBC
KBC is an integrated banc assurance group, catering mainly for retail customers, small and medium-sized enterprises and private banking clientele. It occupies leading positions on its home markets of Belgium and Central and Eastern Europe. The group is also active in a selection of other countries in Europe in private banking and services to business. Elsewhere around the globe, the group has established a presence in selected countries and regions.
Pictet
The Pictet Group is an asset management specialist focusing mainly on Private Banking, Institutional Asset Management, Fund Administration and Management, Global Custody & Investor Services, Family Office and Services for Independent Asset Managers.
Sustainable Asset Management (SAM)
SAM through its decennial experience in sustainable investment has built an extended know-how and expertise on sustainability trends, strategies, and interest of investors.
SAM, through its new division Sustainability Services, provides a range of services addressed to corporations, experts and practitioners to support organizations in building their competencies and capabilities.
Bank Sarasin
Bank Sarasin is a leading Swiss private bank whose many years of banking experience has made it consciously opt for sustainability as a key component of its corporate philosophy. It provides a high level of service and expertise when acting as investment advisor and asset manager for private and institutional clients.
azemos partners ag
azemos partners ag is a small, independent corporate finance company focused on Switzerland’s medium-sized companies and is successfully advising owner, manager, corporate and private equity clients since 2003. The firm’s Partners service the needs of clients across Switzerland and abroad out of their Zurich headquarter by delivering a dedicated, flexible, partner-led team and easy to access advice for every client. The team has established excellent credentials in both Investment Banking as well as in Asset Management, having advised on several deals in the last years.
Centre Info SA
Centre Info SA is an independent company based in Switzerland which has twelve employees, among whom six senior analysts, and who benefits from a more than fifteen years experience in the notation ESG (environment, social, governance). Centre Info offers, in association with INrate AG in Zurich, solutions adapted to investors wishing to take into account ESG issues in their investments, whether it is within an approach of socially responsible investing or minimizing the extra-financial risks in the traditional investment. Centre Info also leads specific research projects in connection with environmental and social issues, and offers advisory services for the elaboration of SRI products as well as for the formulation of an ISR investment strategy.
Dexia
Dexia is a retail bank which has 5.5 million customers in Belgium, Luxembourg, Slovakia and Turkey. Over the years, Dexia has developed a broad range of banking services for private individuals, small and medium sized businesses and institutional clients. Dexia also operates in the fields of insurance, asset management, and investor services.
Ethos, Swiss Foundation for Sustainable Development
Ethos, Swiss Foundation for Sustainable Development, was created in February 1997 by two Geneva-based pension funds and is currently composed of 78 institutional investors. Its purpose is to promote the consideration of sustainable development principles and corporate governance best practice in investment activities, in accordance with the principles defined in its Charter.
BCGE Asset Management
BCGE Asset Management has been activily working in sustainable management for 10 years and our client’s interest in this approach is constantly growing. Our offer includes specific mandates, balanced portfolios and a secondary value Swiss fund. Based on a “best-in-class” approach, financial preoccupations and risk control meet the need to consider sustainable development principals.
Coninco
CONINCO is a group specialized in finance and the creation of value for assets for private and institutional investors trough it’s companies CONINCO ADVISORY and CONINCO WEALTH MANAGMENT.
We possess a thorough knowledge of the financial business and industry: investor profile definition, asset allocation, selection, qualification and allocation of managers and financial products and portfolio follow-up. We use this knowledge in order to produce efficient financial advisory and wealth and asset management. Sustainable management is part of our philosophy and we take it into account on a day to day basis in our work.
BlueOrchard, a bridge between microfinance and the capital markets
BlueOrchard is a leading commercial microfinance investment manager, providing credit and equity to microfinance institutions (MFIs) in emerging countries. While supporting the development of millions of small enterprises, the investments managed by BlueOrchard generate since 10 years stable returns. BlueOrchard presently has more than €600 million assets under management and works with close to 140 partner MFIs in 40 countries.
Triodos
Triodos Bank finances companies, institutions and projects that add cultural value and benefit people and the environment, with the support of depositors and investors who want to encourage corporate social responsibility and a sustainable society. Our mission is to help create a society that promotes people’s quality of life and that has human dignity at its core, to enable individuals, institutions and businesses to use money more consciously in ways that benefit people and the environment, and promote sustainable development and to offer our customers sustainable financial products and high quality service.
Financière de Champlain
Financière de Champlain is an independent asset management company, specialising in the field of sustainable development. Founded in 2000, Financière de Champlain developed recognised expertise in the field of stock-picking medium sized companies. Capitalising on this financial expertise, Financière de Champlain has practised since 2004 management by conviction on themes linked to sustainable development: the environment, ethical investment, and the aging of the population. Financière de Champlain is also notable for its management which combines prudence with performance, favouring those stocks which show strong visibility at a reasonable price.
Fortis Investment Management (Suisse) SA
Fortis Investments has made a major commitment to Sustainable and Responsible Investments over the recent years by building one of the largest investment teams dedicated to SRI. Whilst the investment team is based in Frankfurt, we cater to the needs of investors in Europe, Asia and USA. Since 2007 Fortis Investments is a signatory to the UN Principles for Responsible Investments.
Caudex Capital Timber Investments GmbH
Caudex Capital Timber Investments GmbH is a Joint Venture between a specialist investment advisory boutique and an award winning Panamanian forest management organisation offering a rare one-stop combination of private equity experience, portfolio management expertise and forestry management skills. The company acts as investment advisor for the currently launched Timber Opportunities Fund that will invest in forestry projects in Latin America with a strong focus on ESG.
responsAbility Social Investments Ltd.
responsAbility is one of the world’s leading social investments companies. With its investment products, responsAbility enables people at the base of the global income pyramid to have access to markets, information and other services important for their development in sectors such as microfinance, fair trade, independent media, SME financing, healthcare and education. Private and institutional investors can thus contribute to positive social development and at the same time aim for a financial return in a professional manner. responsAbility is backed by well-known Swiss financial institutions and a social venture capital company.
Natixis Asset Management SA
Natixis Asset Management is an SRI management leader in France and Europe thanks to a mutli-class offer and proficiency in SRI approaches for every type of client. Natixis Asset Management is the European expert for Natixis Global Asset Management. With 277 billion Euros under management, Natixis places itself as a major European asset manager. They offer institutional investors, companies, distributors and bankers a complete range of investment products and solutions for all asset classes. Natixis Épargne Financière was created in 2008 to provide products to Banque Populaire and Caisse d’Epargne. It offers its client a multi-specialist approach combining expertise in asset management and client solutions.
Impax Asset Management
Impax Asset Management Ltd. is a specialist investor with 15 years’ experience in the environmental sector. Today Impax has ca. £1 billion under management and advisory in long only, private equity and hedge fund products. The firm, which is publicly quoted, is owned 25% by management and 27.9% by BNP Paribas Investment Partners. Impax invests globally in quoted companies that provide, utilise or advise upon technology-based systems, products or services in environmental markets within three main sub sectors: alternative energy and energy efficiency, water treatment and pollution control and waste technology and resource management.
MCR&D SA
MCR&D SA is active in data acquisition, flow management and especially in the field of electrical energy. MCR&D SA develops products and offer services for the continuous measurement of power consumption. Considerable savings of energy thanks to non-stop information for consumers!
Switcher
From the beginning, Switcher has always applied the principles of sustainable development in its business. For Switcher, the long term survival is linked to the respect of the environment and the community it operates in. sustainable development, far from being a marketing strategy, is for Switcher a philosophy that the company applies tout the normal good conduct of its activities. As a best in class company, Switcher works on offering the final consumer a product that he can by in total confidence.
SES SOLAR INC
Since 2001, SES SOLAR INC has been taking part in developing a clean, environmentally sound eco-friendly energy solution: solar energy. SES develops projects and solutions in photovoltaic solar energy from a perspective of architectural integration, combining design and energy in a way that enables you to take pride in contributing to the advancement the most beautiful of the dependable renewable energies.
Aravis
Aravis is a Switzerland based venture capital organisation managing two funds focused on life science (Aravis Biotech I & II) and a third fund focused on renewable energy (Aravis Energy I). Since 1995 the Aravis management team have invested over $600 million in more than 80 companies. As well as providing venture capital backing, Aravis also takes a hands-on approach to highly promising companies offering a unique international network that combines decades of experience in science, operations and financing. With a disciplined investment process and Aravis’ hands on approach in supporting management, the companies that Aravis has invested in have shown a comparatively low failure rate and many have grown to become some of the leading companies in their fields.
Solaronix
Solaronix is active in the area of renewable energy and has a leading position in the development of new photovoltaic cells imitating natural photosynthesis. In particular, the dye sensitized nanocrystalline titanium dioxide solar cell is in a advanced stadium. A pilot production line for interconnected solar modules is actually in build-up.
New Energy Fund
The New Energy Fund L.P. is dedicated to participation in the growth of the global renewable energy (RE) sector without recourse to investments in fossil fuels or nuclear energy. The manager of the fund uses the public equity markets as its vehicle with a long/short equity hedge fund. The goal of the fund is to outperform the 20 - 30% expected growth rates of the renewable energy markets over a full market cycle.
PiperJaffray
Founded in 1895, Piper Jaffray is a leading international middle market investment firm. It offers a full suite of products to serve its clients’ business lifecycle needs, geographic reach in an increasingly international market, and deep expertise in its core middle market sectors. The Company operates through three principal business areas-investment banking, institutional securities and asset management.
KPMG
KPMG focuses on three disciplines: Audit, Tax and Advisory. Any company wishing to offer its clients top-notch auditing and advisory services needs to recognize and understand their needs as well as the environment in which they operate. The latter will vary according to regulatory demands, sector of industry, size of company and other criteria.
