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Raiffeisen Capital Management also offers ethical-ecological investment funds:
Sustainability does not mean sacrificing returns!
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The primary interest of profiting from the returns on financial investments by no means conflicts with ethical principles.
”Earning returns with a clear conscience
When you invest money you expect to earn an appropriate return. However, financial investments can also represent an opportunity to have a positive influence on social change – especially if you decide to go with an ethical-ecological form of investment.
There is a wide array of sustainable investment products spanning all of the various categories: environmental savings accounts, microcredit investments, investment funds such as money market funds, equity funds, mixed funds, sustainable hedge funds and so forth, as well as direct investments (e.g. renewable energy sources), pension investments, life insurance plans and similar products.
There are also many different approaches to selecting the securities that make it into the portfolio. On one hand, there are elimination criteria that prevent investments in fields such as nuclear power, defence, alcohol/tobacco, genetic engineering or in companies that infringe on human rights. On the other, there are positive criteria such as supporting environmental technologies or renewable energy sources. Additional information
Sustainability is a factor in the financial success of companies and investors. This applies on both the international stock exchanges and the domestic stock market, where the companies that do business in the most sustainable manner are included in the VBV Österreichischer Nachhaltigkeitsindex (VÖNIX). The VÖNIX sustainability index has outperformed the ATX Prime Index by several percentage points in recent years.
The majority of sustainable investment products offered in Austria are investment funds. In contrast to other countries, the sustainable investment trend did not start here until the late 1990s. According to the Sustainable Business Institute (SBI), there were a total of 301 sustainable funds approved for sale in Germany, Austria and Switzerland as of 30 June 2009. At that point, these funds had a volume of around EUR 25.5 bn.