{"id":36360,"date":"2021-10-31T16:44:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-31T14:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eticasgr.com\/storie\/news-events\/ribi-etica-sgr-ottava-al-mondo"},"modified":"2021-12-27T11:41:00","modified_gmt":"2021-12-27T09:41:00","slug":"ribi-etica-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eticasgr.com\/en\/storie\/insights\/ribi-etica-funds","title":{"rendered":"RIBI: Etica 1st place in Italy and 2nd boutique in the world for the promotion of sustainability"},"content":{"rendered":"\nThe RIBI (Hirschel &amp; Kramer Responsible Investment Brand Index) is an independent analysis identifying which asset-management companies around the world are <strong>sincerely committed to environmental, social and governance themes<\/strong>.\n<h2>The outcome for Etica Funds<\/h2>\nIn the 2021 edition, Etica has been awarded gold medal in Italy, as <strong>top \u201cAvant Gardist\u201d operator<\/strong> in the <strong>ESG field<\/strong>, standing out for its strong commitment, well above average, in <strong>promoting sustainable development through its brand.\u00a0<\/strong>Outside Italy, it secured a place in the <strong>Top 10<\/strong>, coming in <strong>sixth position in Europe<\/strong> and <strong>eighth in the world (the only Italian brand)<\/strong>, out of over 500 asset managers.\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-36407 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.eticasgr.com\/app\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Avant-Gardist-logo.jpg\" alt=\"ribi avant-gardist logo\" width=\"100%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eticasgr.com\/app\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Avant-Gardist-logo.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.eticasgr.com\/app\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Avant-Gardist-logo-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.eticasgr.com\/app\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Avant-Gardist-logo-1024x677.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.eticasgr.com\/app\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Avant-Gardist-logo-768x508.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.eticasgr.com\/app\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Avant-Gardist-logo-400x264.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.eticasgr.com\/app\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Avant-Gardist-logo-800x529.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/>\nThe RIBI also publishes a <strong>ranking of boutique asset managers<\/strong> (asset managers with up to \u20ac 20 million in assets at 31 December 2020). In this category, Etica came <strong>second in the world<\/strong> (again the only Italian brand), demonstrating once and for all that a commitment to sustainability is not dependent on the size of managed assets.\n<h2>The RIBI\u00a02021 report<\/h2>\n<img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-31913 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.eticasgr.com\/app\/uploads\/2020\/11\/HK-Responsible-Investment-Brand-Index-2020-Etica-Sgr-al-6-posto-in-Europa1.jpg\" alt=\"HK-Responsible-Investment-Brand-Index-2020-Etica-Sgr-al-6-posto-in-Europa1\" width=\"100%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eticasgr.com\/app\/uploads\/2020\/11\/HK-Responsible-Investment-Brand-Index-2020-Etica-Sgr-al-6-posto-in-Europa1.jpg 648w, https:\/\/www.eticasgr.com\/app\/uploads\/2020\/11\/HK-Responsible-Investment-Brand-Index-2020-Etica-Sgr-al-6-posto-in-Europa1-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.eticasgr.com\/app\/uploads\/2020\/11\/HK-Responsible-Investment-Brand-Index-2020-Etica-Sgr-al-6-posto-in-Europa1-400x200.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\" \/>\n\nThe complete RIBI 2021 report is freely available to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ri-brandindex.org\/\">download online<\/a>. Now in its fourth edition, it analyses companies on two fronts:\n<ul>\n \t<li>the <strong>commitment of the asset manager<\/strong>to invest responsibly through \u201c<strong>concrete action<\/strong>\u201d, such as participation in collective sustainable-development initiatives or publication of proxy-voting activity. Seven criteria are evaluated in this category, including quality of listed equity voting, strategy and governance of responsible investment.<\/li>\n \t<li><strong>how the company\u2019s intentions are communicated through the brand<\/strong>. This category involves evaluation of eight criteria, including purpose statements and how value systems are expressed aimed at making a positive difference for the company.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>The RIBI ranking<\/h2>\nThe RIBI analysis then applies two ratings: <strong>\u201cresponsible investment Commitment\u201d<\/strong> and <strong>\u201cresponsible investment Branding\u201d<\/strong>, with a numerical scale. This allows classification of asset managers into four different types.\n\n<img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-36067 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.eticasgr.com\/app\/uploads\/2011\/10\/RIBI-quadrante.png\" alt=\"RIBI quadrante\" width=\"100%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eticasgr.com\/app\/uploads\/2011\/10\/RIBI-quadrante.png 1021w, https:\/\/www.eticasgr.com\/app\/uploads\/2011\/10\/RIBI-quadrante-300x170.png 300w, https:\/\/www.eticasgr.com\/app\/uploads\/2011\/10\/RIBI-quadrante-768x434.png 768w, https:\/\/www.eticasgr.com\/app\/uploads\/2011\/10\/RIBI-quadrante-400x226.png 400w, https:\/\/www.eticasgr.com\/app\/uploads\/2011\/10\/RIBI-quadrante-800x452.png 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1021px) 100vw, 1021px\" \/>\n<ul>\n \t<li><strong>Avant-Gardist<\/strong>: above average on Commitment rating and Brand rating.\u00a0<strong>This category includes Etica Funds<\/strong>.<\/li>\n \t<li><strong>Aspirant<\/strong>: above average on Brand rating but modest Commitment.<\/li>\n \t<li><strong>Traditionalist<\/strong>: strong involvement in sustainability but weak Brand rating.<\/li>\n \t<li><strong>Laggard<\/strong>: those lagging behind, below average on both ratings.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nAll of the data required to calculate the RIBI ratings originates from information in the public domain.\n\nA full description of the methodology is available here:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ri-brandindex.org\/\">www.ri-brandindex.org<\/a>.\n\n<hr \/>\n\n<em>Please read the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eticasgr.com\/avvertenze\"><em>Notes<\/em><\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RIBI 2021: Etica Sgr nella Top 10 a livello mondiale e si posiziona all\u2019ottavo posto come gestore Avant-Gardist\u00a0in ambito ESG<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31910,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"custom-templates\/single-avanzato.php","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[590],"tags":[2089,323,1016,22721],"yst_prominent_words":[27221,27223,27228,27226,27218,27227,26859,27224,27222,27219,27217,27220,26958,27216,26957,27207,27211,27215,27229,27225],"class_list":["post-36360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-insights","tag-awards","tag-esg","tag-esg-en","tag-responsible-investment","temi-responsible-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eticasgr.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36360"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eticasgr.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eticasgr.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eticasgr.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eticasgr.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36360"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.eticasgr.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36414,"href":"https:\/\/www.eticasgr.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36360\/revisions\/36414"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eticasgr.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eticasgr.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eticasgr.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eticasgr.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36360"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eticasgr.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=36360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}