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Principles The development of the building criteria for the indices are based on: above all: Client Consensus on Sutainability and Good Business Behaviour - also: UN-Human-Rights-Declaration, the ILO-Protocol, academic institutions e.g. Wharton Business School, INSEAD, University of the Vatican, and NGOs involved in human rights and environmental questions.

The rating of companies is performed with:

Positive screening: selection of companies which satisfy high standards of Business Sutainability, CSR, Environment, Social Relations. 

Negative screening: exclusion of companies which are active in non-sustainable industries with a given minimum turnover.

Best-in-class-approach: incorporation of companies with a good social and environmental performance from critical industries or countries.


E.Capitals says its process allows different kinds of evaluations:

Standard: environmental and social criteria are weighted equally
Environment: environmental criteria are weighted stronger than social criteria
Sustainability: additional criteria are applied in order to identify companies acting for sustainable development in the areas economy, ecology and social matters
Best-in-Class: evaluation and identification of companies from critical Industries e.g. petrochemical, which have an above average environmental and social performance
Customer specific evaluation: weighting of criteria according to customer needs
Excluding criteria Excluded are companies from the following areas:

Pornography
Contraception (on request)

Which generate part of their turnover from the following areas:

Armament
Nuclear energy / technology
Alcohol
Gambling
Tobacco

or are known for:

infringing of human rights
ILO-Protocol

Positive criteria Positive criteria are:

Social criteria
good corporate citizenship, good employee relations (free unions, further education, equal opportunities, social audit according SA 8000), good customer relations (quality and safety of the products), good relations to competitors (no cartels), good relations to suppliers (company policy to support suppliers directed by minorities or women)

environmental criteria
good environmental strategy (environmental policy exceeding minimum standards), environmentally friendly products (lifecycle analysis, high recycling quotas), environmentally friendly production (reduction of waste and emissions, use of renewable energies), consideration of Best-in-Class approach in "dirty" industries e.g. oil, gas


Research done by

E.Capital Partners

Funds based on the index


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