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	ECOFACT sets up Consulting and RepRisk Business Units
	January 08, 2010 - To ensure full focus on both the consulting and RepRisk business areas, and to avoid any conflicts of interest, ECOFACT has set up two corresponding business units with fully dedicated teams. Olivier Jaeggi, Managing Partner, will lead the consulting team and Philipp Aeby, Managing Partner, will lead the RepRisk team. Raul Manjarin will continue to be in charge of international EDDs within the consulting business unit. Within the RepRisk business unit, Luca Bortolani will head Product Management, Charlotte Mansson will head Sales & Marketing, and Nicole Streuli-Fürst will head Operations. Irina Jung is the Representative for Switzerland and Key Account Manager for financial data providers, Sharon Maharg is the Representative for the Americas, and Responsible Research is our distribution and research partner for the Asian-Pacific region.

	Responsible Research to market RepRisk in Asia and cover Chinese and Korean
	June 24, 2009 - RepRisk has entered a marketing and research partnership with Responsible Research, an independent research provider specializing in ESG research in Asia. Responsible Research will market RepRisk to Asian institutional investors and use its in-depth knowledge of Asian environmental, social, and corporate governance issues to enhance RepRisk’s coverage of media and NGOs. The cooperation with Responsible Research ensures that Chinese and Korean language sources will be covered as of July 2009. For more information, please click here for the press release.

	New RepRisk release: UN Global Compact and Russian sources
	April 21, 2009 - As of today, RepRisk allows you to identify which company or project could be in violation of one of the UN Global Compact Principles. The ten UN Global Compact Principles have been added as a new entity to the database. In addition, we have further improved the coverage of news for Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and Central Asia. In particular, RepRisk now also covers Russian sources on top of the languages already provided: English, Spanish, German, French, and Portuguese. Furthermore, we have refined the scope and added four labor-specific issues: Child labor Forced labor Freedom of association and collective bargaining Discrimination in employment Finally, a new sorting function in the RepRisk Relationships Box in the company or project profile allows you to easily identify the most relevant relationships, e.g. issues or countries related to a particular company or project. If you do not have an account yet and are interested in what RepRisk can do for you, sign up for a trial account.

	ECOFACT releases Most Controversial Companies full year report 2008
	December 15, 2008 - ECOFACT has released a report listing the top ten most environmentally and socially criticized companies in the following categories: Emerging Markets, North America, Financial Institutions (Banks, Financial Services, and Insurance), Utilities, including Clean Tech, Overall 2008. Companies on these lists have been severely criticized by the world’s media and NGOs for issues including human rights abuses, severe environmental violations, impacts on local communities, corruption and bribery, and breaches of labor, health and safety standards. Rankings are based on the Reputational Risk Index (RRI), as measured by RepRisk. RepRisk does not measure a firm's overall reputation. Instead, by capturing criticism, RepRisk provides an indicator of reputational risk. The ranking is directly derived from the negative press captured by RepRisk and is strictly rule-based. RepRisk is used by asset owners and asset managers, commercial and investment bankers, supply chain managers, and corporate responsibility experts.

	ECOFACT London event on Responsible Investment, October 17, 2008
	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.

	2nd Forum on Reputational Risk Management in Banking, London, October 15/16, 2008
	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.

	ECOFACT releases Most Controversial Companies report
	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.

	Round-table lunch on “Norm-based Exclusion: Evidence and Practice”
	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).

	ECOFACT signs the UN Global Compact and the PRI
	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.

	1st Forum on Reputational Risk Management in Banking
	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.

	New product line: RepRisk® Asset Management
	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.

	Climate Risk Check-up
	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.

	Announcement: 1st Forum on Reputational Risk Management in Banking
	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.

	PBC/IFC Symposium in Beijing
	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).

	New RepRisk® release
	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.