Erste AM integrates sustainability in funds & on corporate level

Ridhima Sharma
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Erste Asset Management (Erste AM) has expanded in the area of ethics and environmental issues. It issued the first sustainable mutual fund as early as in 2001, and since 2006, the fund has been co-managed by WWF. With a total of 15 sustainable mutual funds and numerous special funds with assets under management of €6.6bn, the company is taking the next step by making sustainable criteria an integral part of a large number of its investment decisions. This will raise the assets under management that explicitly take into account ESG criteria to €13.4bn (as of 31 January 2020).  "It is our ...

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