Minimum requirements
Valid for all mutual funds of Erste AM
The minimum requirements apply to all Erste Asset Management’s publicly offered funds. They form the basis of our sustainable exclusion criteria. Certain companies, business sectors and countries are thereby excluded from investment.
Direct investments in issues by companies
Controversial activities
zero tolerance
maximum 5% of revenues
In order to keep exclusion criteria operationally feasible in the sense of a detection limit, these refer to practicable / available reference values such as company turnover, share of total reserves for companies or GDP for countries. The exclusion criteria also apply to consolidated shareholdings (> 50% shareholding).
Publications and policies mentioned
Policy against speculation on food and agricultural commodities
August 2026: Complete revision and redesign of the exclusion criteria.
July 2025: Companies - Fossil Fuels - Renaming from „Refining and liquefaction of hard coal and lignite" to „Fuels produced from coal“, max. 5% of reveues added to minimum requirements.
June 2025: Companies - Weapons and Armaments - Manufacturers of banned weapons and/or their essential components: Criteria has been added.
Disclaimer
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