EU-domiciled investment funds use Sustainability Indicators to measure the attainment of the environmental or social characteristics they promote or the attainment of the sustainable investment objective on the portfolio level. The Sustainability Indicators used for a specific investment fund are defined in the product’s legal documentation and are reported on in the annual report.
Overview of Sustainability Indicators
The table below provides information of Sustainability Indicators used by Credit Suisse Asset Management.
Important note: Each investment fund only uses a subset of the Sustainability Indicators listed below. Data
Sustainability Indicators in the form of third-party ratings, scores or raw data are generally sourced from MSCI unless stated otherwise in reporting. For further information, please refer to: msci.com/our-solutions/esg-investing/esg-ratings. Sustainability Indicators that are based on a Credit Suisse Asset Management’s proprietary methodology may integrate data from multiple third-party providers such as MSCI, Sustainalytics, Lucror, RepRisk, or Siemens (for real estate investments).
Credit Suisse Asset Management aims to provide Sustainability Indicators that are transparent, accessible, and comparable for clients to assess and compare the sustainable investing performance of our investment funds. However, given the absence of global standards for measuring and disclosing ESG data underlying some of these metrics, data quality and data availability may be limited.