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Centre Info SA

Company mission	"Centre Info is a research and consulting agency, which provides information concerning corporate responsibility. Centre Info analyses and evaluates the conduct and performance of businesses in environmental and social areas. It offers investors independent, high-quality information, which they can integrate into their investment decisions."
Legal form	Limited Company
Ownership	Foundation Pier Luigi Giovannini
Foundation	1990
Executive Board	Philippe Spicher
Number/qualification of employees	Currently 10 employees specialising in law, business and environmental research
Advisory Board / Council	n. s.
Cooperations / Memberships	SiRi-Company Ltd. Centre Info is a major shareholder of the Sustainable Investment Research International (SiRi Company Ltd.) and independent provider of SRI research and consulting services for institutional investors and financial professionals European Corporate Governance Service (ECGS) Centre Info is founding member of the European Corporate Governance Service. This partnership of specialised institutes provides voting advices to shareholders for annual meetings. They also analyse the Corporate-Governance-Structures of the most important European Stock corporations.

Background	Centre Info Ltd. is an independent company based in Switzerland that employs ten people, including six senior analysts. Centre Info benefits from more than 15 years of experience in the ESG notation. Centre Info relies on its own data and data provided by SiRi Company to identify solutions suited to investors who want to consider ESG issues, either on the grounds of socially responsible investment or with the aim of minimising extra-financial risks in traditional investment. Centre Info also conducts specific research projects related to ESG issues and provides advisory services for the conception of SRI products or for defining investment strategies in line with SRI concepts.
Research	Centre Info performs Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) analysis by assessing the behaviour of companies towards their stakeholders, as well as towards society as a whole. Centre Info analysis also puts into perspective the social and environmental issues affecting companies, and the consequences that such issues may potentially have on their performance. By assessing the exposure of companies to these issues and their possible response, ESG analysis represents an important complement to traditional financial analysis.
Criteria	Centro Info developed a method to evaluate the sustainability of companies in 1997 and have enhanced it within the recent years based on its experiences. Centre Info focuses its analysis on the following issues: Environment Employees Clients Community Corporate Governance Suppliers These issues are analyzed through four different perspectives: Transparency Policy and principles Management systems Performance Overall, Centre Info analysis’ framework consists of more than 120 criteria adapted to specific industries.
Ranking- / Rating- System	Centre Info undertakes an yearly sustainability evaluation as well as regular monthly up-dates following particular companies events. Centre Info ratings are provided under the form of grades or scores and are fully customizable according to clients needs.
Quality Mangement	Centre Info has an integrated quality management system dealing with various aspects of its research. In addition, Centre Info is a project partner of CSRR-QS®, a new European standard which has been drawn up with the objective of promoting confidence in those Groups performing Corporate Sustainability and Responsibility Research (CSRR). It is the first quality standard conceived and worked out at sector level in the field of CSR and SRI research and analysis. CSRR-QS 1.0® aims to maintain high quality management systems, to stimulate transparency, to facilitate assurance processes and to form a basis for further verification procedures.
Products & services	envIMPACT® envIMPACT® measures the exposure of companies to carbon risks. Companies facing high carbon risks are those whose business models are based on high carbon intensity activities. The carbon intensity of activities is analysed through the whole value chain of products and service SiRi PRO Detailed analyses over the 1,800 most important capitalisations worldwide released through SiRi Pro, a online flexible database. SiRi Pro enables fund managers to develop their own SRI portfolios or serves as a basis for the development of customised products by Centre Info consultants. Alert Service The Alert Service provides a detailed and continuous follow-up of the behaviour of more than 1800 companies on issues ranging from human rights violations to environmental damage and the marketing of unsafe products. This is the first time such a service has been offered in the field of ESG analysis. Country rating The Country Rating tool allows screening of countries in a bond portfolio either by exclusion or by weighting. It may also be used for geographical asset allocation in a stock portfolio.
Clients	Centre Info clients comprise asset managers, financial professionals and pension funds..

Contact	Centre Info SA Rue de Romont 2 CH-1700 Fribourg Switzerland Phone: 026 322 06 14 Fax: 026 322 39 62 E-Maill : centreinfo@centreinfo.ch
Contact person	Philipp Spicher
Web	www.centreinfo.ch