News
September / 09.2023
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- Events
12.09.2023A webinar will be held on 19 September in Zurich, while two roadshows will be organised on 20 Sep-tember in Geneva and 21 September in Lausanne. The aim is to present the specific features of the Clartan Ethos ESG Europe Small & Mid Cap fund, which combines extra-financial and financial analy-sis to in…
July / 07.2023
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- Events
11.07.2023Created in 1997 to promote socially responsible investment among Swiss pension funds, the Ethos Foundation recently welcomed its 249th and 250th members. Together, the 250 members of the Ethos Foundation manage assets totaling over CHF 355 billion and have almost two million insured members.
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- Corporate Governance
04.07.2023The Ethos Foundation has decided to support the Lausanne-based legal start-up LegalPass in its legal action against the exchange ratio set in the context of the acquisition of Credit Suisse by UBS.
June / 06.2023
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- Events
29.06.2023On Thursday, Ethos unveiled a new methodology for assessing global warming caused by the activities of listed companies. The methodology also aims to measure the credibility of companies' climate transition plans and the risks that climate change poses to their activities. The "Ethos climate transition rat…
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- Events
13.06.2023The 2023 General Meetings of the Ethos Foundation and Ethos Services were held in Fribourg on Tuesday 13 June. All items on the agenda were approved. The current members of the Foundation board of Ethos and the board of directors of Ethos Services were all re-elected.
May / 05.2023
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- General meetings
19.05.2023Submitted by a coalition of international investors with the support of the Ethos Foundation, the shareholder resolution calls for greater transparency from the Zug-based company, in particular with regard to the compatibility of its production and investments in coal with a global warming limit of 1.5°C.…
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- General meetings
10.05.2023The proxy cards for the 2023 general meetings of Aevis and Swatch Group did not offer shareholders the possibility to delegate their voting rights, which the Ethos Foundation regrets as it makes it more difficult to exercise this fundamental shareholder right. The procedure for exercising such an option wa…
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- General meetings
04.05.2023Ethos considers that Holcim's climate report has sufficiently improved to be approved this year. The company has taken into account the main criticisms expressed by Ethos in last year’s vote. Ethos will re-evaluate its position next year based on the company's progress on climate issues. However, Ethos rec…