About Sustainability Investing

Sustainability Investing is increasingly establishing itself as an effective approach to generating long-term returns.

Major sustainability challenges such as climate change, resource scarcity and demographic shifts feature prominently on the global agenda. Yet investors continue to underestimate the impact of sustainability trends on companies’ competitive landscape. This leads to market inefficiencies that sustainability investors can exploit.

SAM believes that Sustainability is a company’s capacity to prosper in a competitive and changing global business environment by anticipating and managing current and future economic, environmental and social opportunities and risks. Companies that address these factors through innovation, quality and productivity enhance their ability to generate long-term shareholder value.

Sustainability Investing is a long-term systematic approach that integrates economic, environmental and social considerations into traditional financial analysis, offering investors a more comprehensive view of companies’ value creation potential, leading to better informed investment decisions. By analyzing the sustainability profile of companies, SAM gains additional insights that facilitate the selection of stocks offering the potential for attractive long-term returns.

SAM’s pioneering approach

As an investment boutique focusing exclusively on Sustainability Investing since 1995, SAM is a global leader with a strong track record in integrating sustainability factors into asset management decisions. SAM’s proprietary research and sustainability data are fully integrated into its entire product offering:

• Sustainability Themes : Long-term megatrends are giving rise to sustainability challenges in the areas of water, energy, climate, materials, agribusiness, and healthy living. SAM identifies innovative, future oriented companies that actively seek to provide solutions to these thematic challenges and are therefore expected to experience above-average growth.
• Sustainability Core : Diversified global and regional equity strategies that systematically integrate material sustainability factors into traditional financial analysis in order to identify sustainability leaders that exhibit superior capacity to generate long-term shareholder value.
• Sustainability Indexes : In collaboration with Dow Jones Indexes, SAM identifies sustainability leaders across all industries using a best-in-class approach for the publication and licensing of the globally recognized Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes (DJSI).