SAM (Sustainable Asset Management) was founded in 1995 as an independent asset management company for sustainability investments and has grown to become one of the world’s leading institutions in this field. Its clientele comprises banks, insurance companies, pension funds, family offices and private investors.

SAM has a comprehensive portfolio of theme-based products in areas such as new energy, water and climate. SAM seeks and identifies leading companies on the basis of company-specific sustainability criteria. Integrating those future-oriented factors into the company valuation and investment process represents the foundation of its investment philosophy. SAM’s know-how is based on its proprietary, independent research techniques and an active, international network of sustainability experts. SAM maintains the world’s largest sustainability database.

Together with Dow Jones Indexes and STOXX, SAM has launched a family of sustainability indexes and publishes and licenses the Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes to track the performance of companies that are industry leaders in terms of sustainability. For that purpose, SAM analyses over 1,000 companies a year.

SAM is headquartered in Zurich (Switzerland) and is among others present in Australia and North America. It employs close to 100 individuals.