Rio+20: The future we want?
| | Read our article From 20 to 23 June 2012, a large number of delegates from governments and companies, and an even larger number of NGOs, consultants and other wayfarers of sustainability will flock to Rio de Janeiro to attend the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development. |
The gathering has been dubbed “Rio+20” to commemorate the seminal Earth Summit that took place in the same city twenty years ago, and its theme will be "The future we want". |
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Pictet and Sustainability
| | Download our publication At Pictet, we define sustainability as economic activity that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. |
Our investment approach aims to meet our clients' financial objectives and their concerns about social, environmental and governance issues. |
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How to survive the next crisis: Is SRI the silver bullet?
| | A new approach to SRI Unsustainable business practices such as providing sub-prime loans to people who could not afford them, excessive risk-taking fuelled by dysfunctional incentive schemes and poor corporate governance were among the prime causes of the financial crisis. |
All of the above are also traditional concerns of Socially Responsible Investment (SRI). But although the crisis has vindicated many of the tenets of social investors, this did not materialise in a significantly better downside protection or superior financial performance of SRI portfolios during this difficult period. |
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Pictet Internal Environmental Management
| | 2011 Technical Report – Pictet Group
Pictet Group, providing information on the measures taken by the Group in terms of its carbon footprint, its policies on transportation and the use of telecommunications, as well as its approach to buildings management (installations using energy from renewable sources). |
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Carbon Disclosure Project's third survey for Switzerland
| | Survey of Switzerland's 100 largest companies
Given the increasing importance of the climate change issue, Pictet Asset Management and Ethos Foundation have decided to conduct the CDP survey for the 100 biggest capitalisations of the Swiss stock market for the third time since 2007. |
Signatory to the Carbon Disclosure Project, Pictet promoted this important initiative in Switzerland during three consecutive years (2007-2009), in association with Ethos. |
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The SRI performance paradox 
| | What do socially responsible investments really achieve?
Today, socially responsible investments are assessed solely on the basis of their financial performance. In their latest study entitled The SRI performance paradox: how to gauge and measure the extra-financial performance of Socially Responsible Investment, however, the two authors, Christoph Butz and Olivier Pictet, from the Geneva private bank Pictet & Cie claim that this is paradoxical. |
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A Viewpoint on SRI: Back to Sustainable Development
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Time for a rethink on responsible investing
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Do Stock Markets Reward the Creation of Jobs?
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Less can be more: A new approach to SRI research
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Decomposing SRI performance
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