The Sustainable Investment Research Analyst Network

The Sustainable Investment Research Analyst Network (SIRAN) is an analyst network that supports more than 150 North American sustainable investment research analysts from 30 investment firms, research providers, and affiliated investor groups.

Sustainable research analysts evaluate corporate policies and performance on various issues of corporate social responsibility (CSR). CSR includes issues such as environment, health and safety, diversity and human resources policies, and human rights and the supply chain.

This research may be used in:

• creating investment portfolios.
• engagement with companies to encourage improved CSR performance.
• corporate benchmarking.
• financial and risk analysis.

SIRAN has five primary goals:

• Help analysts coordinate meetings with companies to research and review CSR policies and performance.
• To provide a forum through which analysts can share best practices, thoughts on emerging issues, and resources.
• Articulate a collective voice on issues relevant to social investment research.
• Provide professional support to social investment research analysts.
• Serve as a resource to companies by providing a point of contact into the social investment research analyst community.

More about SIRAN at www.siran.org >