Sustainability
"Don't cut down more trees than you plant". Sustainability is environmentally-friendly and socially responsible behaviour in today's society
Sustainability enables us to fulfil our needs without restricting the coming generations in theirs.
MEAG's sustainability approach takes into account three additional sustainability pillars for investments in equities or bonds, alongside the traditional investment principles of earnings, risk and liquidity:
- The ecological pillar: environmental standards and environmental management
- The economic pillar: corporate guidelines, risk and crisis management
- The social pillar: social standards, employee programmes
The future will be marked by increased diversification coupled with a reduced risk profile, especially for pension funds, foundations and churches. The sustainable investment policy answers not only to the desire for investment security in these institutions, but also to increased transparency requirements.
In the MEAG decision-making process for sustainable investments, the earnings potential of established, responsible enterprises is combined with the innovativeness of small and medium-sized companies. The companies are selected systematically together with Munich Re and SAM (Sustainable Asset Management), the well-known analyst company for sustainable investment.
This concept is the basis of the highly successful MEAG Nachhaltigkeit (Sustainability) (I-share solution for Institutional Investors) mutual fund.
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