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ECOFACT London event on Responsible Investment, October 17, 2008
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October 21, 2008 - ECOFACT is pleased to announce that it successfully hosted its panel discussion and lunch in London on “Responsible Investment Policies: Implementation and Challenges”, Friday October 17, 2008. The speakers came from leading asset management firms F&C, BlackRock, Insight Investment, and UN PRI organization. The purpose of this event was to present and discuss the implementation of responsible investment policies and the challenges it poses. The presenters lead some of the financial industry’s most renowned responsible investment teams, as well as developing the guiding principles. There was also an introduction to RepRisk. To download the speakers' presentations, please visit the corresponding section on our website or contact Charlotte Mansson (+41 44 350 6060, ).
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2nd Forum on Reputational Risk Management in Banking, London, October 15/16, 2008
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September 01, 2008 - HSBC Bank and ECOFACT are organizing the 2nd Forum on Reputational Risk Management in Banking on October 15/16, 2008 at HSBC headquarters in London. Delegates from 16 major international banks will gather at the forum to share insights from their reputational risk management practices. The objective of the 2nd Forum is to set out the 10 best practice elements of reputational risk management developed in the 1st Forum, to take them to the next level, and to discuss implementation options. For more information please contact Martina Klose +41 44 350 6064, .
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ECOFACT establishes its Advisory Board
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July 22, 2008 - ECOFACT today announces the introduction of its Advisory Board. The Advisory Board members are Henning Christophersen, former Vice President of the European Commission responsible for financial and monetary affairs and current member of Danske Bank’s Supervisory Board of Directors; Walter H. Diggelmann, Former CEO of the Swiss-American Chamber of Commerce and current Director of the Board; and Pietro Veglio, former World Bank Executive Director and current member of the Board of Directors of the Swiss Export Risk Insurance.
The Advisory Board will advise ECOFACT and its clients on environmental, social and reputational risk management issues in the financial industry, and support ECOFACT in achieving its objectives. ECOFACT’s President Olivier Jaeggi says “I am delighted that these highly experienced leaders are joining our team to help us attain our goal of mainstreaming environmental, social and reputational risk management in banking and asset management. Together with our outstanding team of subject experts, the Advisory Board will strengthen our clients' ability to address relevant issues and opportunities.”
For more information about the Advisory Board, please click here for the press release or contact the Advisory Board Secretary Charlotte Mansson +41 44 350 6022, .
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ECOFACT releases Most Controversial Companies report
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July 04, 2008 - ECOFACT has released a report listing the top ten most environmentally and socially criticized companies.
The top ten companies were: Samsung, Total, Wal-Mart, China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), Shell, ExxonMobil, Citigroup, Nestlé, ArcelorMittal, and Chevron. The companies have been consistently and severely criticized by the world’s media and NGOs for issues including human rights abuses, severe environmental violations, corruption and bribery, and breaches of labor, health and safety standards. Rankings are based on the Reputational Risk Index (RRI), as measured by RepRisk in the first six months of this year.
If you would like to receive a copy of the report, please contact Charlotte Mansson () or call +41 44 350 6022.
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Round-table lunch on “Norm-based Exclusion: Evidence and Practice”
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June 13, 2008 - ECOFACT was very pleased to welcome more than 50 participants at the lunch seminar on "Norm-based Exclusion: Evidence and Practice", June 13, 2008, at the Park Hyatt Zurich.
The keynote speaker was Kamil Zabielski from the Council of Ethics of the Norwegian Government Pension Fund, who presented and discussed the benefits of norm-based exclusion. The event commenced with an introduction to ECOFACT (presentation) by Olivier Jaeggi, ECOFACT’s President and Managing Partner, and was followed by presentations from Kamil Zabielski (presentation, ethical guidelines). Martina Klose, ECOFACT’s Director of Product Management, gave an introduction to RepRisk (presentation) and Julian Koelbel from ETH Zurich presented evidence that norm-based exclusion might lead to better returns (presentation, thesis summary).
For more information please visit the corresponding section on our website or contact Charlotte Mansson (+41 44 350 6060, ).
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ECOFACT signs the UN Global Compact and the PRI
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May 08, 2008 - ECOFACT has become a signatory to both the United Nations Global Compact and the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI).
ECOFACT has committed itself to ensuring that the Global Compact’s ten principles are an integral part of the company’s management, strategy, culture and daily operations. In addition, ECOFACT fully adheres to the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment. We believe in the value of incorporating environmental, social and corporate governance issues into investment decisions and active ownership practices.
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1st Forum on Reputational Risk Management in Banking
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March 01, 2008 - Representatives from eight international banks shared insights into their current practices in reputational risk management and agreed on a common set of best practice elements, i.e. organizational structure, processes, tools and guiding principles in reputational risk management. The first Forum on Reputational Risk Management in Banking was held on February 29, 2008 at Dresdner Bank's Eugen-Gutmann-Haus in Berlin. The Forum was organized and moderated by ECOFACT and sponsored by Dresdner Bank. For further information please visit the corresponding section on our website or contact Martina Klose (+41 44 350 6064, ).
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New product line: RepRisk® Asset Management
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February 11, 2008 - As of today, the new RepRisk product line, RepRisk Asset Management, supports asset managers in identifying and assessing controversial issues attached to companies and sectors relevant to their investment portfolio. Individual watchlists provide a powerful means for tracking the environmental, social, and reputational risk status of individual companies in an asset manager’s portfolio, shortlist, and investment universe. If you do not have an account yet and are interested in what RepRisk can do for you, sign up for a trial account.
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Climate Risk Check-up
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January 28, 2008 - ECOFACT launches the "Climate Risk Check-up": an assessment of the risks presented by climate change to all business activities and portfolios of banks, asset managers, and direct insurers. The “Climate Risk Check-up” covers different climate and policy scenarios. It delivers a quantitative analysis of the potential impact on cash flows, assets, reputations, and regulatory environments.
This new service is based on ECOFACT’s work for the Climate Change Working Group of the UNEP Finance Initiative (Report 2005) and was jointly developed by Philipp Aeby and Anja Schilling. Philipp Aeby graduated in climatology and holds a PhD in environmental physics of ETH Zurich. His interest in climate change dates back to 1997 when he represented Switzerland at the European Commission Advanced Study Course on Climatology. Anja Schilling holds a master’s degree in geography and meteorology from the University of Basel and has acquired extensive experience in the risk management of natural hazards at the Swiss Federal Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, Davos, Switzerland.
Should you be interested in the above mentioned report or wish to discuss the "Climate Risk Check-up" in more detail, please contact Philipp Aeby () or Anja Schilling () for more information.
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Announcement: 1st Forum on Reputational Risk Management in Banking
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December 10, 2007 - Dresdner Bank and ECOFACT are organizing the 1st Forum on Reputational Risk Management in Banking taking place on February 29, at the Eugen-Gutmann-Haus of Dresdner Bank in Berlin.
The forum will gather delegates of the major international banks to start the dialog on common practices in reputational risk management.
For further information please contact Martina Klose (+41 44 350 6064, )
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PBC/IFC Symposium in Beijing
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December 04, 2007 - Olivier Jaeggi has been invited as a speaker to a symposium organized by the People's Bank of China (PBC) and the International Finance Corporation (IFC). The symposium takes place on December 4 in Beijing and focuses on how Chinese commercial banks can meet the requirements of PBC and the Chinese State Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA) regarding environmental risk management. Please click here for Olivier Jaeggi’s presentation (English / Chinese).
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New RepRisk® release
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November 01, 2007 - As of today, the RepRisk release 2.4 provides you with new features that further increase RepRisk's usability and speed. If you do not have an account yet and are interested in what RepRisk can do for you, sign up for a trial account.
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