Nasdaq OMX CRD Global Sustainability
50 Index
The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:NDAQ) and the CRD
Analytics introduced the NASDAQ OMX CRD Global Sustainability
50 Index (Nasdaq:QCRD) on 15th June 2009. The index
enables investors to track the performance of the companies
that are taking a leadership role in sustainability
performance reporting. These companies have voluntarily
disclosed their carbon footprint, energy usage, water
consumption, hazardous and non-hazardous waste, employee
safety, workforce diversity, management composition
and community investing. The NASDAQ OMX CRD Global Sustainability
50 Index is the latest index launched by the NASDAQ
OMX Global Index Group and underscores its commitment
to designing and calculating relevant world-class indexes.
"The NASDAQ OMX CRD Global Sustainability 50 Index
tracks the companies on the leading edge of self-reporting
sustainability activities," said NASDAQ OMX Executive
Vice President John Jacobs. "With the changing
global ecological environment, the component companies
are taking positive steps to take advantage of the new
economic and regulatory realities we face."
"The NASDAQ OMX CRD Global Sustainability 50 Index
is a landmark in making sustainability more investable.
The companies are force ranked based on a more holistic
set of risk-adjusted performance metrics," said
CRD Analytics' President, Michael Muyot. "Using
a quant-based, Triple Bottom Line methodology allows
companies to be compared on an apples-to-apples basis.
This has helped elevate extra-financial analysis into
mainstream investing."
The NASDAQ OMX CRD Global Sustainability 50 Index is
powered by CRD Analytics' SmartView(tm) system based
on over 150 quantitative financial, environmental, and
social performance indicators of a global universe of
equities. Each component of the NASDAQ OMX CRD Global
Sustainability 50 Index must:
* produce a publicly available corporate sustainability/
responsibility report;
* disclose compatible sustainability data according
to (GRI) G2/G3 guidelines;
* report at least 20% of total core environmental performance
indicators;
* report at least 20% of the total core social performance
indicators; and
* report at least 70% of the total financial performance
indicators.
The Index is calculated in real-time and began calculation
with a value of 1,000.00 on June 15, 2009.
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