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climate-damaging greenhouse gas emissions and water consumption). Raiffeisen KAG regularly takes on board the
impulses and information provided by these initiatives while contributing its own experiences.
Progress in the stakeholder process
The advisory board for sustainable investment that was established in 2017 has met regularly ever since. Its
purpose is to provide Raiffeisen KAG’s activities in the area of sustainable investments with substantive, academic
and inputs motivated from various stakeholder groups’ perspectives. The advisory board acts as a specialized
body representing the key stakeholder groups for sustainable investments.
As a manager and provider of investment funds and asset management products, Raiffeisen Capital Management
intends to continue to intensify its dialog with customer and stakeholder groups above and beyond its service range
in order to position itself even more strongly as a central point of contact for all issues relating to sustainable
investment. Among other things, this will be supported by the information platform focusing on sustainable
investment – www.investment-zukunft.at.
In 2018, the event series INVESTMENT ZUKUNFT was organized for the first time. This is a platform for the
exchange of interest and information with stakeholders such as customers, companies, science, and the Raiffeisen
Banking Group. Three events with the general topic of “water” attracted a high degree of public interest and
resonance. This serves as good motivation to continue this event series in future. The “nachhaltig investieren”
newsletter was also relaunched in order to offer space to a wide range of articles on specific topics, including by
external experts in particular. The new edition continues the tradition of the existing newsletter (20 issues in five
years).
INVESTMENT ZUKUNFT in Vienna, November 22, 2018, ©Raiffeisen KAG INVESTMENT ZUKUNFT in Vienna, November 22, 2018, © Sabine Klimpt
Other new elements of stakeholder integration include a commitment to “Fondsfrauen”, a network for the
promotion and equal treatment of women in the German-language investment fund industry. The aim is to
connect women across hierarchical levels in order to enable a regular dialog and to support them in achieving
their private and professional goals.
Raiffeisen Bank International | Sustainability Report 2018