ESG/Sustainability Third Party Profiles Added to Governance & Accountability Institute's Sustanability HQ ™ Web-based Platform

(New York, NY, July 19, 2011) -- Governance & Accountability Institute today announced the addition of four new ESG/Sustainability profiles on its proprietary web platform, SustainabilityHQ™   (SHQ) .

Links below are accessible for G&A client organizations and SHQ subscribers. The new profile additions are:

• Responsible Endowments Coalition - (added July 07, 2011)
  The beginning of the Responsible Endowments Coalition mission statement reads: "The Responsible Endowments Coalition (REC) works to build and unify the college and university-based responsible investment movement, both by educating and empowering a diverse network of individuals to act on their campuses, and by fostering a national network for collective action."  This group is coordinating responsible and sustainable investment on US campuses.
• Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC) - (added July 07, 2011)
  The Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC) is, according to its Web site, "…a forum for collaboration on climate change for European investors." As of June 2011, IIGCC claimed more than 70 members with combined assets under management of roughly 6 trillion Euros.
• Manifest Information Services - (added July 07, 2011)
  Manifest Information Services calls itself "Europe's independent, corporate governance and global proxy voting service." The company's mission is "to make things clear."  Manifest says it is the United Kingdom's "first fully on-line proxy voting agency to offer fully-customised, electronic proxy vote management." Manifest lists three categories of clients: investors, advisors, and quoted companies.
• Stoxx Limited - (added July 07, 2011)
  Stoxx has eight (8) European sustainability indices and a Europe faith-based (Christian) index.  Owned by Deutsche Börse and SIX Group. Partners include Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes, Eurex.  Stoxx describes itself by stating: "STOXX Ltd. operates as a globally integrated index provider, covering the world markets, developing, maintaining, distributing and marketing a comprehensive global family of strictly rules-based and transparent indices
  
  

Those interested more information about SustainabilityHQ can contact Governance & Accountability Institute via email (info@ga-institute.com).   There is also information and samples of profiles, news, and more on the public access pages here: www.sustainabilityhq.com  Journalists interested in a demo of the platform can contact Peter Hamilton at: phamilton@ga-institute.com

Hank Boerner, Chairman and CEO of Governance & Accountability Institute, in announcing the additions said: “Rapidly growing investor interest in Sustainability/ESG topics by investors and corporate executives has spurred the growth of new ESG tools and resources for investment decision-making. Literally dozens of third party researchers, providers of analytics and related services in North America, Europe, Asia and the Pacific region are researching, assembling and distributing ESG data, making recommendations to help guide investors.  These are the “watchers,” and G&A Institute’s SustainabilityHQ™ helps both investors and corporate managers understand who these third party organizations are, how they operate, what their interests are, and what companies they focus on in their research. These are effective resources for positive corporate engagement with third parties and stakeholders.”

The information and resources within SustainabilityHQ are organized in “content silos” (categories).

Note to Editors:  SustainabilityHQ’s ESG/Sustainability content is organized by topic and issues in focus: Profile Categories, ESG Research and Financial Analysis; ESG Influencers; Corporate Governance;  Corporate Social Responsibility ; Investor Coalitions; Carbon Issues; ESG Stock Indexes; Investment Banks; Credit and Risk Rating Agencies; Consulting Organizations; United Nations Initiatives; Media; Business & Industry Collaboratives; Think Tanks/ Research Centers; and Archived Profiles, all with comprehensive individual sub-categories.