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Sustainability Index Dow Jones - SAM

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The Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes

combine the experience of a leading index provider with the expertise of a world-renowned pioneer in sustainability investing.

SAM Indexes
SAM Indexes is an entity of SAM which is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland and is a member of Robeco.
SAM is an investment boutique focused exclusively on Sustainability Investing. The firms offering comprises asset management, indexes and private equity. Its asset management capabilities include a range of single-theme, multi-theme and core sustainability investment strategies catering to institutional asset owners and financial intermediaries in Europe, the United States, and Asia-Pacific. Through its index activities, SAM has partnered with Dow Jones Indexes for the publication and licensing of the globally recognized Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes (DJSI) as well as customized sustainability benchmarks. Furthermore, SAM is the center of expertise for clean tech private equity within Robeco.
SAM belongs to Robeco, which was established in 1929 and offers a broad range of investment products and services worldwide. Robeco is a subsidiary of the AAA-rated Rabobank Group.

Dow Jones Indexes
Dow Jones Indexes (www.djindexes.com) is a leading full-service index provider that develops, maintains and licenses indexes for use as benchmarks and as the basis of investment products. Best-known for the Dow Jones Industrial Average, Dow Jones Indexes offers more than 130,000 equity indexes as well as fixed-income and alternative indexes, including measures of hedge funds, commodities and real estate. Dow Jones Indexes employs clear, unbiased and systematic methodologies that are fully integrated within index families. Dow Jones Indexes is part of a joint venture company owned 90 percent by CME Group Inc. and 10 percent by Dow Jones & Company, Inc., a News Corporation company (NASDAQ: NWS, NWSA; ASX: NWS, NWSLV).

The Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes are a product of Dow Jones Indexes, the marketing name and a licensed trademark of CME Group Index Services LLC (CME Indexes) and SAM Indexes Gmbh (SAM). dow Jones(R), Dow Jones Indexes and Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes are a service mark of Dow Jones Trademark Holdings, LLC (Dow Jones) and have been licensed for use by CME Indexes. CME is a trademark of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc.

CONTACT US
SAM Indexes GmbH
Josefstrasse 218
8005 Zurich
Switzerland
Tel. +41 44 653 1803
Fax +41 44 653 1810

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SUSTAINABILITY INVESTMENT
Increasingly, investors are diversifying their portfolios by investing in companies that set industry-wide best practices with regard to sustainability.

Two factors drive this development.
First, the concept of corporate sustainability is attractive to investors because it aims to increase long-term shareholder value. Since corporate sustainability performance can now be financially quantified, they now have an investable corporate sustainability concept. Second, sustainability leaders are increasingly expected to show superior performance and favourable risk/return profiles. A growing number of investors is convinced that sustainability is a catalyst for enlightened and disciplined management, and, thus, a crucial success factor.

What private and institutional investors needed was a global, rational, consistent, flexible and, most importantly, investable index to benchmark the performance of their sustainability investments. They also needed an independent reliable index as a basis for derivatives and funds focused on sustainability companies.

In response, Dow Jones Indexes and SAM launched the Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes (DJSI). The indexes reflect the combined expertise and resources of the vast experience of both partners: the publisher of the world's best known stock indicator, Dow Jones Indexes and the internationally renowned pioneer in sustainability investing, SAM.

For investors, the integrity of the corporate sustainability assessment and the index calculation ensures that the DJSI are independent, reliable and investable sustainability indexes.

For companies, the DJSI provides a financial quantification of their sustainability strategy and their management of sustainability opportunities, risks and costs. Because "What gets measured, gets done", they will be motivated to increase long-term shareholder value by integrating economic, environmental and social factors in their business strategies.

The DJSI will provide investors and companies with insight into the trends and events driving global supply and demand of sustainable products and services. This will bring a greater appreciation of the benefits of integrating sustainability principles in both corporate and investment strategies.