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Central positive criteria (examples): exclusion criteria (examples)
Responsible dealings with employees Weapons
Active environmental policy Nuclear power
Sustainable products Serious deficits in democracy or human rights violations
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a complete provider in this service sector. Smatrics has the first comprehensive high-performance charging
network in Austria, which is powered by 100 percent renewable energy. Naturally, assistance and advice
is also provided for the establishment of independent charging points at customer locations.
• Cooperation with electric car manufacturers:
Raiffeisen-Leasing has been known for many years as a long-time, competent co-operation partner among
electromobility manufacturers. Here, the co-operation with the vehicle manufacturer TESLA should be
mentioned in particular. This alliance continues to attract a large influx of stakeholders. We are also delighted
to announce that in 2017 the vehicle fleet of electric vehicles has increased considerably. For example,
5,433 electric vehicles were registered, of which around 12 percent were financed through Raiffeisen-Leasing.
New additional services have also been developed for the customers, which are well received by the
“electromobilists”.
Valida Vorsorge Management
The Valida staff provision fund is responsible for processing the obligatory contributions under “Abfertigung Neu”
for a total of 2.3 million employees and self-employed persons. The contributions it manages are in the amount of
approx. € 2.7 billion. The “Valida Staff Provision Fund: sustainability concept” defines the ethical criteria for
capital investment.
The consultancy firm Mag. Reinhard Friesenbichler Unternehmensberatung (rfu),
a specialist in sustainable investment, reviews the level of sustainability for the
entire corporate assets of the Valida staff provision fund investment community
(VG 1) twice each year. The individual investments are rated on a scale of 0 to
200. Investments with a sustainability score of 100 points or more are to be
regarded as sustainable. The scores of the individual portfolio positions are aggregated at the level of the overall
portfolio and result in an overall sustainability score.
Additionally, the investments are assigned to one of the following sustainability classes:
1) Sustainability funds
2) Sustainable individual titles
3) Sustainability-oriented funds
4) Conventional funds (not sustainable)
The goals for the sustainable capital investment of the Valida staff provision fund are as follows:
• It should be possible to assign all investments to one of three sustainable investment classes.
At the 2017 reporting date, the Valida staff provision fund held no conventional funds. This means that 100
percent of the assets were invested in the above three classes of sustainability.
• The sustainability score for the entire portfolio should be over 140 points.
At the reporting date of December 31, 2017, the Valida staff provision fund exceeded the reference value with
153 points.
Thus, Valida clearly met all of the goals of sustainable investment.