Fribourg, April 26, 2004
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SiRi Company announces the launch of SiRi Pro, an Internet based tool for sustainability research and ratings. This development positions SiRi Company as the leading independent global provider of transparent, customizable, and online SRI research and consulting services for institutional investors and financial professionals.
SiRi Pro (Profiles and Ratings Online) is an innovative web-based rating tool that can be fully customized to client needs and builds upon high quality analysis of detailed and extensive SiRi Company Profiles. With SiRi Pro, the sustainability rating of companies becomes a fully transparent process. The rating tool enables clients to simply and quickly integrate their unique sustainability vision and sustainability investment policy into company assessments or use standard SiRi Company criteria. Clients can use the tool for benchmarking and individual company assessments, including best-in-class analysis and exclusionary screening.
SiRi Pro allows users to
- Customize weights for each of the over 200 indicators
- Set industry-group specific weights and country risks
- Select amongst a set of some 30 common exclusionary screens
- Upload client-specific company universes
- Save individual settings
- Access more than ten rating report formats
- Download SiRi Company Rating Summaries and detailed SiRi Company Profiles and
- Export files that include share listing codes to facilitate integration into financial tables.
According to SiRi Company, a range of its institutional clients has already begun to use SiRi Pro.
A demo version is available at www.siripro.com/demo for interested organisations.
SiRi Company is owned by the members of the former SiRi Group. These are Avanzi SRI Research (Italy), Centre Info (Switzerland), Dutch Sustainability Research (Netherlands), ECODES (Spain), GES Investment Services (Sweden), KLD Research & Analytics (USA), Michael Jantzi Research and Associates (Canada), Pensions & Investment Research Consultants (United Kingdom), scoris (Germany), Stock at Stake (Belgium) and Sustainable Investment Research Institute (Australia).
A brochure on SiRi Pro is available to download from the SiRi Company website at www.siricompany.com/pdf/SiRi_Pro_Brochure_2004.pdf
To access the demo site:
Please contact SiRi Company Ltd., Executive Director, Mr. P. Spicher (phone +41 (0) 79 24 35 955, mail: philippe.spicher@centreinfo.ch) or your local sales agent.
SiRi Company Website: www.siricompany.com
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