AXA joins the Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes
News
Group, September 19, 2007
The AXA Group has announced its integration into the Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes, which select the top 10% most advanced companies in terms of sustainable development in the world. This evolution is an independent confirmation of the relevance of the Group's sustainable development strategy since 2005.
« The AXA Group is proud to join the Dow Jones Sustainability STOXX and World Indexes. This is in recognition of our commitment to sustainable development. For AXA, the challenges linked to sustainable development are part and parcel of the practice of our Financial Protection business. This belief contributes to the definition of our corporate responsibility and to our desire to innovate to better serve our clients», declared Henri de Castries, Chairman of the AXA Group's Management Board.
AXA was able to add its name to these indexes thanks to the quality of its risk management processes, the growth of sustainability-oriented insurance products, its customer relations management efforts, its brand strategy, the corporate philanthropy's risk prevention and employee volunteering initiatives, the access to financial products and services for low-income populations (micro-finance and micro-insurance), its sustainable development procurement programme, and the roll-out of the Environmental Management System.
The Group's final aggregate score (67/100) and its sub-component scores (economic, environmental, social) have increased sharply, while 90% of the various items scored reveal that AXA ranks above the sector's average.
Investors and insurers play a key role in the search for responses to the most complex societal and environmental challenges, such as the climate risk or financial exclusion.
Further information
The Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes : www.sustainability-indexes.com
The SAM rating agency : www.sam-group.com
The AXA Group's sustainable development strategy : http://www.axa.com/en/responsibility
The AXA Group's main extra financial ratings : http://www.axa.com/en/responsibility/performance/sriratings