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BNP Paribas maintained in the DJSI Stoxx and World indexes, improves its SAM rating
The Swiss agency Sustainable Asset Management (SAM), has published its evaluation of the Corporate Social Responsibility of over 1,000 listed companies worldwide. For the banking sector, BNP Paribas is one of 11 banks selected for the DJSI Stoxx index for 2009 and one of 25 banks worldwide to be part of the DJSI World Index. BNP Paribas is the only French bank to have been part of these two benchmark indexes for Socially Responsible Investment since 2002. The rating attributed to BNP Paribas rose from 71 to 73 out of 100, while the sector average fell from 52 to 51. Since September 2008, the DJSI Stoxx saw the exclu-sion of HBOS (which became part of Lloyd’s BG), Fortis and UBS. The number of banks in the DJSI Stoxx fell from 14 to 11.
Rating agency Vigeo selects companies committed to Sustainable Development and Corporate Social Responsibility for the Aspi and ESI indexes. BNP Paribas is present in the Aspi Eurozone index, which includes the 120 highest rated companies amongst the 1000 companies present in the Dow Jones EURO Stoxx. The rating attributed to BNP Paribas falls under Vigeo’s intellectual property rights since 2007.
Detailed information on the rating is however available upon request.
The British rating agency Ethical Investment Research Service (EIRIS) selects those companies that make the biggest efforts managing environmental risks as well as reducing their impact on the environment for the FTSE4Good sustainable investment indexes. BNP Paribas is included in the European FTSE4Good Europe Benchmark Index as well as the worldwide FTSE4Good Global Benchmark Index.