Are companies in the AuSSI continuously monitored and if necessary excluded from the index?
Yes, based on the ongoing review process, both the Corporate Sustainability Monitoring and changes due to IPOs, spin-offs, mergers & takeovers etc. can lead to the exclusion of a company. The objective of the Corporate Sustainability Monitoring is to verify a company’s involvement and management of critical areas such as illegal commercial practices, human rights abuses, workforce conflicts and large accidents. The monitoring process is based on a daily media and stakeholder analysis covering newspapers and newswires from around the world. Once a crisis situation is identified, the analysts will use a much broader selection of sources including stakeholder reports and contacts to the company to assess the severity of the crisis and the quality of crisis management. An AuSSI member that gets involved in a severe crisis and does not show a proactive and transparent way of handling it, can be excluded from the index at any point in time. The AuSSI index design committee is responsible for
