Introduction
Investment information: Exclusive and protected
The investment industry is, for good reason, extremely careful about the way that it handles, uses and transfers information. For both commercial and investor protection reasons, rigorous safeguards exist to ensure that information is only communicated by appropriate people through appropriate channels to appropriate recipients.
These important controls, however, can have the unintended consequences of making the investment research process unchallenging, sterile and exclusive.
The SRI-CONNECT website aims to:
- facilitate communication between companies, investors & their advisors on sustainability issues
- accelerate the inclusion of sustainability factors in 'mainstream' analysis & investment
- double the impact of users' SRI activity while halving the time taken (a ‘Factor 4’ goal)
It does this by:
- Creating an online market place where analysts and portfolio managers can come together with company executives and experts on different aspects of sustainable development to present themselves, to exchange views, to report on their progress and to listen to and learn from the experiences of others
- Facilitating SRI communications processes that engage both parties in detailed and considered dialogue that leads to sustainable development becoming a fundamental part of investment decision-making.
