Sustainable investment opportunities
Sustainable Investment Opportunities
1. Sustainable Equity Funds
2. Responsible investment for ING Private Banking clients
Sustainable Equity Funds
ING offers investors socially responsible investment (SRI) opportunities such as the ING IM global sustainable equity funds. The managers of the funds combine conventional financial analysis with the assessment of environmental and social policies and performance.
The funds do not invest in companies involved in:
- weapons trade
- nuclear energy
- tobacco
- gambling
- pornography
- fur trade
- genetically modified crops
Furthermore, companies can be excluded on the basis of social or environmental criteria, like forced labour, child labour or discrimination.
Our analysts select the top 50% of the remaining companies within each sector with the most sustainable and best financial performance.
Results over the past few years show that the attention paid to environmental, social and governance criteria has not been at the expense of the investment return.
The funds are marketed through ING’s business units in Europe, the US and Australia under the following names.
Netherlands:
Australia:
Luxembourg:
Responsible investment for ING Private Banking clients
A fast-growing number of private banking investors are not only interested in financial value, but also want to know how companies realise profits. Besides receiving the usual financial information about a company, they take environmental, social and ethical criteria into account.
ING in the Netherlands has been gathering this relevant additional information since 1999 and offering it to investors, including charities and foundations.
Valuable information
ING Bank’s Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) department selects companies that meet responsible and sustainable criteria and gathers information on their environmental and social performance.
This additional information will help investors to incorporate SRI investments into their portfolios to enhance sustainable aspects.
Responsible investment strategy
ING in the Netherlands now offers retail customers the option to invest according to five different approaches.
One of these five approaches is ‘Socially Responsible Investing’ , which builds portfolios by taking ‘People, Planet and Society’ issues into account.
Customers can choose either select investment funds from ING or from other providers, or they can select individual companies that meet the ING criteria on sustainability.
Sustainable investment funds
ING provides clients in the Netherlands with information on the sustainable investment funds offered by a wide range of providers, not just funds managed by ING. ING selects funds that distinguish themselves by certain sustainability topics and/or themes and meet general ING criteria.
ING Liric
ING Private Banking in the Netherlands offers its customers the ING Liric Duurzaam Top 50, an eight-year sustainable structured product with a guaranteed 100% refund of the initial investment.
The 50 companies selected for this product form the ING Socially Responsible Investment Index which is powered by HOLT (part of Credit Suisse).
The ING SRI Index is quoted on Bloomberg, ticker ISRII. The sustainable criteria are formulated by ING Bank’s specialised SRI department and contain both positive and negative sustainable selection criteria and meet general ING criteria.
For more information please visit www.ing.nl , or contact your local ING Bank.