Fribourg, 1 March 2006

SiRi Company welcomes AIS as new Spanish Network Partner

On March 1st, Analistas Internacionales en Sostenibilidad (AIS) was officially presented to the investment community as the new Spanish partner and shareholder of SiRi Company. AIS will provide the analysis of the Spanish, Portuguese companies for SiRi Company. AIS has been founded through a joint venture between Triodos Group and ECODES (one of the most important Spanish environmental NGOs).

AIS is the first for profit ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) research and rating agency established in Spain, which offers professional products and services to asset managers. AIS provides services for introducing ESG issues in the portfolio selection of investment funds and pension funds.

AIS is the first company in Spain fully dedicated to sustainability research and corporate rating. Relevant members of the joint venture were in charge of the speeches during the presentation on March 1st, including AIS’ Managing Director, Carlos Bendito; Triodos Bank’s President, Esteban Barroso; ECODES’ Director, Víctor Viñuales; and SiRi Company’s Sales & Marketing Director, Marcel Jeucken.

Mr. Bendito: “AIS is pleased to build upon the SiRi Research Methodology and SiRi Pro. SiRi Pro is a unique Internet based client-servicing platform, enabling clients to simply and quickly integrate their unique sustainability vision and sustainability risk investment policy into company assessments on the basis of ESG issues.”

Mr. Spicher: “SiRi Company is very pleased to welcome AIS as a new partner in our global network, to further grow our research and client-servicing in Spanish-speaking markets”.

Download the AIS Press release. (Pdf)

For more information, please contact:

Mr. Philippe Spicher, Managing Director, SiRi Company, www.siricompany.com
Phone number +41 (0) 79 24 35 955

Mr Carlos Bendito, Managing Director, AIS, www.ais.com.es
Phone number +34 (0) 917 88 60 10