Events
25 events specific to the SRI Week can be seen as a good achievement, involving nearly all Belsif's members and even outside:

 

Monday October 12th 2009
Belsif – Publication of the Belsif SRI Matrix

 

Saturday October 17th 2009
Réseau Financement Alternatif – Meeting with the « relais de FINANcité »
Hefboom – in the second hand shops

 

Sunday October 18th 2009
Netwerk Vlaanderen – Visit of windmills construction at the Thorntonbank, a boat trip to the powers of the future

 

Monday October 19th 2009
KBC Asset Management - Info-Evening: "The power of socially responsible investment"
Triodos Bank - Discovery Days Triodos (Liège – Mechelen).
Dexia Asset Management - Conference: "Climate change: the power of investors"
Réseau Financement Alternatif - Midday-formation on responsible and solidarity finance dedicated to the SRI report 2009

 

Tuesday October 20th 2009
Vigeo - Breakfast conference on "Restructuring & job cuts in Europe: a social and financial perspective", followed by a debate
Ethias in collaboration with Forum Ethibel - How to invest in an ethical and responsible way?  Ethias and Ethibel present you the advantages of a sustainable investment!

 

Wednesday October 21st 2009 
Triodos Bank - Discovery Days Triodos (Wavre – Gent).
Fortis Investments - Seminar 'Sustainability: key for a good future' with Dixie Dansercoer & wife, Stewart Armer and Greet Poulmans.
Hefboom – in the second hand shops

 

Thursday October 22nd 2009
Triodos Bank - Discovery Days Triodos (Namur – Hasselt).
Triodos Bank - Discovery Days Triodos (Brussels).
EIRIS – Breakfast Seminar: "Achieving responsible ownership through engagement"
Ethias in collaboration with Forum Ethibel - How to invest in an ethical and responsible way?  Ethias and Ethibel present you the advantages of a sustainable investment!
BNP Paribas Fortis - Workshop – Sustainable and Socially Responsible Investment
Réseau Finacement Alternatif and Netwerk Vlaanderen - "Press release and publication of the study: Evaluation report on the SRI management of the public money."
Bloomberg - ESG Going Mainstream- Integrating ESG into traditional financial analysis
Triodos Bank - Discovery Days Triodos (Brussels).

 

From October 15th to November 14th 2009
BNP Paribas Fortis Bank – Communication campaign for retail clients.

 

From September 23rd to November 3rd 2009
Argenta Belgium– Launch of a new SRI product: « Argenta-Fund Responsible Growth Fund »

 

News
Forum Ethibel – Database open to the public and Ethias Bank's full balance sheet certified

 

It is clear that if event attendance is used as a measure of success, then success of events was mixed.  However, in total, more or less 730 people attended those events. 

 

Beside the events, some other activities can be seen as a success: BNP Paribas Fortis Bank' s campaign where a part of the costs of SRI-funds was given to 4 NGOs raised about 100 million euros and the campaign was extended.  Forum Ethibel's website traffic also increased considerably.  
 

 

The campaign generated 7 press articles (De Tijd, Le Soir, 2 articles in La Libre Belgique and 1 article in Het Belang van Limburg, 2 articles in Test-Achats & Test-Aankoop), 2 "dossiers" were dedicated to SRI in De Tijd and in Netto/Mon Argent, 2 TV shows (one in NL and one in FR) on a financial channel (Canal Z), 1 radio interview (La première) in and around The SRI Week 2009.  Moreover, around 14 websites were speaking about the SRI Week

 

 

The SRI Week website operated as pages on the BELSIF site, in the three following languages: French, Dutch & English.  The website was used for the call for project and to describe the SRI Week in a first time, then used as only location to find the full program of the week's activities.  The site was managed by BELSIF.

Our average website traffic during October was 16.000 pages viewed in October, an increase of nearly 50%. 

 

 

"Without the SRI Week, Fortis' activities wouldn't have take place.  Fortis Investments organised an event for 55 clients.  The campaign from BNP Paribas Fortis Bank where a part of the costs of SRI-funds was given to 4 NGOs (Red Cross, Natuurpunt/Natagora, Max Havelaar and Plan Belgium) was a big success:  about 100 million euros were raised and the campaign was extended.  Moreover, people in the agencies reacted a lot about this campaign, both positively (high motivation) and negatively" - Greet Poulmans (Fortis Investments)

 

"The launch of the SRI Belsif week was a good incentive for us to set up an event targeting our Institutional Clients. Therefore, we organised an event for more or less 30 institutional clients about climate change, with a presentation of one of our analysts followed by a debate." - Cedric Van Neste (Dexia AM)

 

"The SRI Week allowed us to organise an event even if the budget for such events were reduced this year.  When your competitors are all organising something, you are obliged to also do something yourself." - Geert Heuninck (KBC AM)

 

"The boat trip was a success: the boat was full and the trip was very interesting (for the ones who weren't seasick).  You loose any notion of distance when you are there.  The 6 windmills already built are huge!"  - Luc Weyn (Netwerk Vlaanderen)

 

"The activities of RFA went well but it would be the same without the SRI Week.  I also attended Vigeo's event, which was very interesting" - Bernard Bayot (Réseau Financement Alternatif)