KEY Characteristics:
"The fund invests worldwide in companies that generate above-average environmental, social and economic performance, and offer interesting growth potential. The investment universe comprises both leaders and innovators.

Leaders are mostly large companies that offer the best environmental and/or social performance in their respective sectors. By continually improving their environmental performance, these companies can cut costs and save resources while reducing their environmental impacts. The ecological analysis covers corporate environmental policy and strategy, process data and product development. The social analysis assesses corporate social policy and management systems, public commitment and relationships with key stakeholders. Innovators are mostly smaller and younger companies, whose products and services offer proven environmental benefits and high resource efficiency. These companies are primarily selected on the basis of their product ranges. In addition to the ecological, social and financial analysis, the companies are also put through an external plausibility test using independent sources."