Sustainability Investing is one of the major topics in  the field of finance today, generating an increasing  amount of interest among a wide range of investors. And the numbers speak for themselves: the UN Principles for Responsible Investment (UN PRI), an initiative that promotes the integration of sustainability factors into investment decisions, now has signatories representing assets worth more than USD 14 trillion globally. Institutional investors can no longer ignore the importance of sustainability factors.

What is the added value of integrating sustainability criteria into traditional financial valuation models? Can financial performance be enhanced by investing in sustainable companies? These are the questions to be answered in this white paper. It starts by briefly introducing SAM's research
philosophy and assessment process before presenting
the results of the latest empirical study.