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For the second consecutive year, Ethos Service has been named “Best For The World” for its governance practices. This distinction recognises B Corp companies that meet the highest standards of social and environmental performance, responsibility and transparency.

The Ethos Foundation publishes today its position on the consultation on the ordinance on climate reporting by large Swiss companies. While Ethos welcomes the Federal Council's desire to legislate in the field of companies' non-financial and climate reporting, Ethos regrets that the current project does no…

The annual general meetings of the Ethos Foundation and Ethos Services SA were held this morning in Bern. All the items on the agenda were approved, starting with the climate action plan which should enable Ethos to achieve its goal of net zero CO2 emissions by 2050. This afternoon, a conference dedicated…

Organised on Thursday 9 June in Bern, this conference will bring together a panel of experts who will discuss the role of companies, but also of investors and regulators. The conference will be broadcast live from 1:45 p.m. on the Ethos Foundation website.

Ethos and Raiffeisen announced today an extension of their collaboration in the field of active ownership. Ethos will now also conduct shareholder dialogue on ESG issues to Swiss and international companies on behalf of Raiffeisen Switzerland. This new collaboration is part of Ethos' commitment to broaden…

Ethos has published this Tuesday the summary reports of the Swiss and international Ethos Engagement Pools (EEP) for 2021. These reports present the dialogue activities carried out by Ethos with listed companies regarding issues related to the environment, social or governance. Detailed reports are however…

On Monday, the bank published its responses to the request for information filed by the Ethos Foundation and seven Swiss pension funds concerning the “Greensill” and “Swiss Secrets” cases. These answers are a first step to enable shareholders to better understand the Greensill affair. However, Ethos consid…

Ethos and seven Swiss pension funds have filed a shareholders' resolution at Credit Suisse's 2022 general meeting calling for a special audit of the bank in connection with the Greensill affair – and the “supply chain finance funds” debacle that followed – and the recent so-called “Suisse Secrets” revelati…