Document summary
The European SRI Study 2012 shows that all responsible investment strategies surveyed have outgrown the market, and four out of six have grown by more than 35% per annum since 2009. The combined growth of all strategies at European level continues to outpace the overall investment market, demonstrating the continuous appetite by investors to take into account Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) factors, despite (or maybe due to) the ongoing economic and market turmoil. This report presents seven individual SRI strategies including Sustainability themed investment, Best-in-Class investment selection, Norms-based screening and the integration of ESG factors in financial analysis. It focuses exclusively on the self-reporting of asset managers and self-managing asset owners and it includes both retail and institutional assets.