Robeco and SAM team up for sustainability platform

Dutch asset manager Robeco and Switzerland-based Sustainable Asset Management (SAM) have launched a platform for sustainability investments. SAM is an asset manager focusing on sustainability investments, and is well known for constructing and licensing the Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes, a joint initiative with Dow Jones Indexes and STOXX.

The joint offering, which will lead to the creation of structured products based on sustainability investments, will be geared at both retail and private investors as well as sophisticated institutional parties like public pension funds.

Within this joint platform, Robeco takes a 64% stake in SAM and 36% is held by SAM's management and employees. No further details of the agreement were disclosed.

"We are confident that sustainability investing will become a dominant theme in asset management,"

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