Dow Jones Sustainability Group Index: One Year On

Richard L. Sandor

Chapter 13 in How I Saw It:Analysis and Commentary on Environmental Finance (1999–2005), 2017, pp 49-52 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: On 8 September 1999, the Dow Jones Sustainability Group Index — a stock index that tracks the performance of the top 10% of the leading sustainable companies in the Dow Jones Global Index — changed the asset management business in Europe. The index includes companies on the basis of best-in-class sustainability in terms of financial, environmental, and social performance. In the inaugural issue of environmental finance, this column described the launch of that new index. This is the promised update…

Keywords: Environment; Emissions; Trading; Finance; Derivatives; Water; Energy; Carbon; Catastrophe; Weather; Sustainability; Fisheries; Greenhouse Gases; Sulfur Dioxide; Acid Rain (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q50 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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