
The head office is located in Brussels, the financial heart of Europe. It also has an extensive private banking network in eight Western European countries. Besides focusing on providing retail and private bancassurance services, KBC is active in asset management and private equity, and in the field of corporate banking, leasing, factoring, re-insurance, insurance, brokerage, project and trade finance in Belgium, Central and Eastern Europe and elsewhere (mainly in Europe). KBC Asset Management NV KBC Asset Management NV is part of the KBC Group KBC is a multi-channel bancassurer with a geographic focus on Europe, catering mainly for retail and private banking customers and small and medium-sized enterprises. Now with access to the ASSET4 system, which contains the world’s largest database of ESG information, an ESG news tracking capability and our recently announced carbon emission estimates, the KBC Asset Management sustainability team has an enormous new reservoir of information to rely on for the development of the industry-leading socially responsible funds." "The combination of their in-house Sustainability Research Department with the independent monitoring coming from their External Advisory Board for Sustainability Analysis and their Environmental Advisory Committee truly sets them apart. "KBC Asset Management has been a pioneer in socially responsible investment, and we are proud that they have chosen the ASSET4 solution," said Peter Ohnemus, ASSET4 President and CEO. Since 1992 we have been the SRI leader in Belgium and now with access to ASSET4’s universe of over 2,600 companies and its 250 key performance indicators and 900 data points, we can continue to expand and deepen our SRI research and screening processes."

Whether an analyst is investigating a company’s performance on human rights, carbon emissions or corporate governance the in-depth ASSET4 data will provide a new resource to consider. "With the product and its Excel Add-In functionality, our SRI analysts can seamlessly integrate ASSET4’s ESG data into their current best-in-class and environmental research. "We have selected the assetmasterProfessional(TM) solution because of the objectivity and scope of its data as well as the transparency that is built into the entire solution," said Geert Heuninck, KBC Asset Management's Head of SRI Department. KBC Asset Management plans to integrate the ASSET4 data into its in-house Sustainability Research Department’s on-going analysis and screening processes. JKBC Asset Management, the largest structured funds operator in the Belgian market for institutional investors and private investors, and ASSET4 AG, the leading provider of objective and measurable environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) information, jointly announced today that KBC Asset Management has acquired a subscription for the ASSET4 information solution.
