Indian IT major Infosys has been inducted into the prestigious Dow Jones Sustainability Indices (DJSI) announced on September 7 and is now part of the DJSI World and DJSI Emerging Markets Indices. Company said that this recognition is a testimony to its corporate sustainability leadership in the IT services & Internet Software and Services industry.
S&P Dow Jones Indices (S&P DJI) is one of the world’s leading index providers, and RobecoSAM, is an investment specialist focused exclusively on Sustainability Investing (SI). Launched in 1999, the DJSI World represents the gold standard for corporate sustainability and is the first global index to track leading sustainability-driven companies based on RobecoSAM’s analysis of financially material Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) factors and S&P DJI’s robust index methodology.
RobecoSAM assesses the world’s largest companies via its Corporate Sustainability Assessment (CSA), which uses a consistent, rules-based methodology to convert an average of 600 data points per company into one overall score. This score determines a company’s inclusion in the DJSI.
