An investor initiative in partnership with UNEP Finance Initiative and the UN Global Compact
"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"
Rob Feckner, President, 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
"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."
Beth Mohle, Chair, HESTA Super Fund
"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
"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

PRI Core Documents

The following three documents help explain more about the PRI.

Read the overview
of the Principles
themselves
and FAQs

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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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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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The Business Case

Institutional investors talk about the financial value of incorporating environmental, social and corporate governance factors into their investment decisions

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What's New

New signatories

  • Bentall LP, Canada
  • Grupo Ecopart, Brasil
  • Totem Investimentos, Brasil
  • Treasury Asia Asset Management (TAAM), Australia
  • Northern Trust Global Investments, USA
  • Agenta, Sweden
  • Relational Investors LLC, USA
  • Simply Finance, UK
  • Nef Capital Ethique Management, France
  • Turner Investment Partners, USA
  • EM Capital Management, LLC, USA
  • Van Lanschot Bankiers, Netherlands
  • VOGA, Brazil
  • Global Fund Exchange Holdings LLC, USA
  • Sustainable Capital Ltd, Mauritius
  • UNISON Staff Pension Scheme, UK
  • Korea CSR Research Service, South Korea
  • AMF, Sweden
  • Wealth Limited, New Zealand
  • Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE), South Africa

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