Erste Asset Management (Erste AM) 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. The company issued the first sustainable mutual fund 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 "It is our task to manage the capital we have been entrusted with to the best of our abilities...
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