As of this year, all of the companies listed on BM&FBOVESPA will have the opportunity to simulate their participation in the selection process for the Corporate Sustainability Index (ISE). The announcement was made today during the launch of ISE 2014/2015, which was held at BM&FBOVESPA.
In this new category, named SIMULADO (Simulated), the interested companies will be able to answer the questionnaire any time during the year (previous year’s questionnaire), up to twice a year. Immediately after completion they will receive the result of their answers and a comparison with the minimum, average and maximum scores of the previous year’s participants.
Simulado will allow all of the listed companies, in particular those that are beginning their sustainability journey, to have an instrument for a practical and rapid qualified diagnosis. Furthermore, they can prepare themselves as future candidates for ISE portfolio membership with a greater familiarity with the process.
Simulado joins the two standing categories of ISE participation, both of which are open only to companies with the 200 most liquid equities on BM&FBOVESPA. The categories are: Elegível (for companies that want to compete to be part of the next portfolio) and Treineira (for companies that want to train for participation in the process in the current year, without competing to join the portfolio).
During the event, there was also the presentation of the ISE 2014/2015 timetable and the activities foreseen for the commemoration of 10 years of the index, to be celebrated in 2015. Companies will have from March 10 to August 08 to register in the process. Answers to the questionnaire must be delivered between July 22 and August 22. More information is available at www.isebvmf.com.br.