Standards & organisations

Through annual questionnaires we provide extensive details of our entire sustainability agenda to a variety of analysts and interested stakeholders. Whilst these provide insight into external expectations, they accredit our standing as a leading sustainability-driven company.

Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DSJI)

The Dow Jones Sustainability Indices are the first global indices to track the financial performance of the world’s leading sustainability-driven companies. A cooperative initiative from Dow Jones Indexes and SAM Group (Sustainability Asset Management), they offer asset managers reliable and objective benchmarks to help them manage sustainability portfolios.

For the fifth year running Man has been selected as a member of the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index and the Dow Jones Sustainability Europe Index, placing it among the top 10% of the biggest 2,500 companies in the Dow Jones Global Total Stock Market Index, in terms of sustainability (economic, environmental and social criteria). We remain the only hedge fund in the DJSI, and our overall scores put us near the top of our sector, with areas of particular strength including our environmental footprint and our environmental and social reporting.

FTSE4Good

Man Group remains a member company of the FTSE4Good Index: the responsible investment index calculated by global index provider FTSE Group. The FTSE4Good Index Series has been designed to objectively measure the performance of companies that meet globally recognised corporate responsibility standards covering environmental, social and governance practices.

Carbon Disclosure Project

Every year, Man participates along with over 3,000 organisations in 60 countries around the world in the Carbon Disclosure Project, measuring and submitting its greenhouse gas emissions and climate change strategies.

The Prince's Mayday Network

The Mayday Network is a collaboration of businesses taking action on climate change and resource depletion. Mayday businesses work together and with partners to seek out and promote the best solutions to the major environmental challenges.

CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme

The CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme (formerly the Carbon Reduction Commitment), the UK's mandatory climate change and energy saving scheme, was launched in April 2010 and is administered by the Environment Agency.

Central to the UK’s strategy for improving energy efficiency and reducing carbon dioxide emissions, as set out in the Climate Change Act 2008, it has been designed to raise awareness in large public and private organisations, and to encourage changes in behaviour and infrastructure.

Man’s electricity consumption in 2008 exceeded the half-hourly metered threshold of 6,000 MWh for participation. The first CRC Performance League Table was published by the Environment Agency in November 2011 but ranked participants in terms of their ‘early action metrics’ only, future tables will be based on their efforts to improve efficiency. The table covers the period April’10 – March’11 for which our reported emissions totalled 13,049 tonnes CO2. This significantly differs from Man’s reporting approach that is based on operational boundaries that exclude emissions relating to sub-tenants but include properties occupied by Man for which the landlord is responsible for utilities.