Responsible investment - achievements

Due to its strong sustainability performance, Magyar Telekom Group has gained the attention of socially responsible investors (investors taking into consideration environmental and social factors as part of their investment criteria).

CEERIUS

Magyar Telekom has been included in the Central-Eastern European responsible investment index CEERIUS (Central and Eastern European Responsible Investment Universe) since its launch. The index was launched by the Vienna Stock Exchange (Wiener Börse) in 2009 and it includes the companies from eight countries of the region that perform the best from environmental, social and economic points of view. 

The companies have been evaluated on the basis of their responsible stakeholder relations. In the evaluation, they studied, among others, the relation of companies to their own employees, to customers, market partners, to the society as a whole and to the environment.
You can read more about the index at http://en.indices.cc/indices/details/riu.

SAM Yearbook

Magyar Telekom was the only Central European company to be included in the 2009 yearbook published by Sustainable Asset Management (SAM), which includes the top 15% of the 2500 rated companies from 57 sectors.

Oekom

For the first time in 2009, an independent rating agency, Oekom Research, audited the Group’s environmental and social performance. Magyar Telekom achieved a Prime rating (recommended). In other words, Oekom recommends Magyar Telekom as a socially responsible investment to its clients, which manage funds worth around EURO 90 billion on the basis of its research.

Dow Jones Sustainability Index

Magyar Telekom was rated for the second time in 2008 with the aim of being admitted into the Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI). This index incorporates the top 10% most sustainable companies among the top 2500 largest companies in the world. Whilst the Group was not admitted into the index at this time for technical reasons, despite the fact it scored higher than that the company with the lowest score within the DJSI World Index.