An investor initiative in partnership with UNEP Finance Initiative and the UN Global Compact
"Implementation of the Principles by the global investment community will ultimately ensure businesses who respect the environment, their community and financial stakeholders have a lower cost of capital and a competitive advantage and HESTA aims to help make this happen."
HESTA Super Fund
"With signing the Principles for Responsible Investment PGGM recognizes very clearly that institutional investors need to integrate the opportunities and risks that ESG factors bring to their investment process"
Else Bos, CEO, PGGM
"We are proud to endorse the Principles, which recognize that social and environmental issues can be material to the financial outlook of a company and therefore to the value of our shares in that company"
Denise Nappier, Treasurer of the State of Connecticut
"We at CalPERS found that these principles are consistent with our own corporate governance efforts and in accounting for environmental and social factors to enhance our investment returns"
CalPERS
"We strongly endorse the PRI because they are simple, they will give encouragement to others, and they reflect our view that corporate ESG performance can have a significant impact on shareholder value."
Bill McClory, Member of the Trustee Board, BT Pension Scheme

PRI core documents

The following documents help explain more about the PRI.

Read the full
Report on Progress
for 2009

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Read the Annual Report of the PRI Initiative, 2009.

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PRI in Person 2010
5-6 October, San Francisco

Registration for the PRI’s annual event is now open. The event is exclusively for PRI signatories and the only opportunity of the year for all signatories to meet, collaborate and learn with peers

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UN Secretary-General Ban ki Moon

"I applaud the leadership of the institutions that have committed themselves to this undertaking, and urge other investors around the world to join this historic effort."
Ban Ki-moon,
UN Secretary-General

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Santander's Eugenia Buosi (Sao Paulo, Brazil) says the PRI's biggest challenge is to keep up the momentum, and to encourage remodelling of investment strategies. Ms Buosi explains Santander's initiative to report on slave labour and human rights abuses in supply chains. She says investors will be able to better understand companies that are transparent in their reporting of these issues.

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New signatories

  • Adveq, Switzerland
  • Socopa - Corretora Paulista, Brazil
  • Environmental Capital Group, USA
  • Actera Group, Turkey
  • The Oblate International Pastoral Investment Trust, Italy
  • Capital5 Strategic Advisory (Pty) Ltd, South Africa
  • Par Equity LLP, UK
  • Academy of Corporate Governance, India
  • Harbour Asset Management, New Zealand
  • Vantage Capital, South Africa
  • KEY Associados, Brazil
  • AAG Investment Management Pty Ltd, Australia
  • Cartesian Capital Group, USA
  • Quotient Investors, USA
  • Praesidian Capital, USA
  • ISPT Super Property, Australia
  • Citola Capital Partners, UK
  • Illac, UK
  • LD Invest A/S, Denmark
  • Resolution Capital Limited, Australia

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