Vision
PPT Sustainable Finance has developed a strategic management process in order to integrate the social, environmental and governance (SEC) dimensions into its analysis and management process.
We believe that companies that integrate those dimensions will outperform businesswise and that their stocks will also outperform. In fact, De Pury Pictet Turrettini has signed the PRI (Principles for Responsible Investment), and sponsors the World Microfinance Forum and Sustainable Finance Geneva.
Our vision is based on 3 management priorities:
- Investment : we believe that an investment manager must be able to grasp the major long-term investment themes since the growing pressures on the planet’s ecological and human capital are going to have fundamental consequences on market investments.
- Responsibility : we observe that the various economic players, e.g. companies, employees, suppliers, customers and shareholders) have a responsibility for the risks they generate, e.g. pollution, management ethics and security, and that the equity markets will learn to punish companies that don’t measure up.
- Sustainability : we believe that a long-term investment approach can no longer ignore the future drivers of value creation, i.e. sustainable growth opportunities that arise in energy, water, forest and waste management, not to mention the inclusion of billions of people in an appropriate financial and health system.
Our management process in sustainable finance integrates the most highly specialized partners in that area and is based on specific principles laid down by our team to guide the way we invest.
We use a number of criteria to select investment vehicles: quality of the management company in terms of responsible investment, e.g. has signed up to PRI, as well as experience and philosophy, type of action, e.g. shareholder involvement rather than ruling out certain companies and investment impact, e.g. actual outcome for environmental, social and governance aspects.