Responsible Investments

Responsible Investments

Objectives :
  • To continue to fulfil our Environment and Social (E&S) responsibilities through solidarity investments,
  • To strengthen our collaboration with NGOs in the environment sector.
Highlights 2009 :
  • Ongoing partnership with French NGO, GERES, with the Group continuing to lend its support to the organisation's different projects,
  • Pursuit of SRI research and in particular the definition of "no bias" SRI rankings,
  • Continued growth of orbeo on the global carbon markets which won four Energy Risk Rankings 2009 awards.
A distinguished team of analysts across Europe :
2009 was an extremely difficult year for the world's financial markets, particularly the equity markets. On a more positive note, Société Générale's number one ranking in Europe by investors for the second year running in 2009 (Thomson Extel Survey) comes in recognition of the quality of the Group's SRI research and services. Our ambition is still the same: “To be the best at what we do”.
To achieve this, the Group's financial research department, SG Global Research Services, is able to draw on the collaboration between a dedicated team and its sector specialists, economists and strategists.
"Farsight Award" – one of the Sustainable City Awards obtained in 2010
100% sustainable development certificates :
Société Générale is the first French bank to have developed a range of stock market products aimed at diversifying investment in sectors linked to sustainable development (biofuel, solar energy, bioenergy, alternative energies, waste management, water, forestry resources, SRI approach to equity markets, fight against climate change, etc.).
Launched in March 2006, the 100% sustainable development certificates offer investors the opportunity to join forces with companies operating in this universe. The offer was further supplemented in 2007 by two Lyxor tracker funds (ETF or exchange trading funds) which, based on a concrete approach, provide easier access to socially responsible “equity” investments, and then by two new certificates devoted exclusively to the fight against climate change in 2008.