EIRIS Survey Can be Completed Online Using OneReport

Published 06-20-05

Submitted by SRI World Group

Brattleboro VT, - Major publicly traded companies throughout the world are in the process of completing Ethical Investment Research Services' (EIRIS) annual survey of corporate responsibility. Corporate respondents can choose to complete the full survey online for free utilizing SRI World Group's OneReport FreeNet service.

EIRIS is a leading socially responsible investing research provider that analyses 2,800 companies from around the world. EIRIS takes the information it receives through the survey and analyzes it for clients, which include 80 major institutional investors, socially responsible mutual funds, and FTSE Group for their leading SRI index, FTSE4Good. The deadline for reporting information for inclusion in the FTSE4Good index is July 1, 2005.

The EIRIS survey covers governance, environmental, and social performance indicators. A company can choose to report data using the EIRIS questionnaire or OneReport's online reporting platform. EIRIS has password-protected access to released company data through the OneReport network.

OneReport FreeNet allows publicly traded companies free access to the OneReport network. Benefits of using OneReport FreeNet include:

Secure online system which allows manipulation of data before finalization. The system also allows the flexibility of providing separate comments and uploading relevant documents.

Reporting to up to 22 participating research and rating firms covering 25 financial markets around the world on shared data points. A complete list of participating research and rating agencies is available at http://www.one-report.com/data_users.html

Ability to upgrade to versions of OneReport that offer simultaneous reporting to multiple research and rating agencies, the complete Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) framework, and workflow management tools.

OneReport was launched in April 2004 as the first global electronic database of corporate sustainability performance information. OneReport makes the process of reporting on corporate responsibility more efficient for companies, and makes the research of these issues more efficient for investment analysts and other data users.

SRI World Group is a leading provider of corporate sustainability reporting solutions. Through its OneReport system, SRI World Group offers companies the ability to report their sustainability data to a global network of research and rating agencies and other data users. SRI World Group is the publisher of SocialFunds.com, the Web's largest personal finance site devoted to socially responsible investing, and is the founder of CSRwire,a global newswire service that features press releases and other information services related to a wide range of corporate responsibility issues.

SRI World Group

SRI World Group, Inc., founded in 1999, is a leading provider of online corporate social responsibility and social investment information services. The company’s history and expertise in these two areas, along with its technical skill in creating and managing sophisticated online databases, has made it uniquely qualified to develop the OneReport network.

EIRIS Survey Can be Completed Online Using OneReport

EIRIS Survey Can be Completed Online Using OneReport

SRI World Group

SRI World Group

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