Traded on the Major Exchanges -  Large-Cap and Mid-Cap companies.

CRD Analytics examined in depth more than 3,000 publicly-traded companies traded on all major exchanges, reducing the potential universe for the index to 500 companies, then 300…100…and finally, to the top 50 most sustainable companies - covering all markets and exchanges.  The top 50 companies that make up the NASDAQ OMX CRD Global Sustainability 50 Index are listed below in alphabetical order. The Index was re-balanced November 1, 2009; 23 securities were added to the Index; a number of companies were removed.

The Index is an equally-weighted equity index that serves as a benchmark for stock or companies that are taking a leadership role in sustainability performance reporting and are traded on a major US stock exchange.  The companies voluntarily disclose their current environmental, social and governance risks as well as their revenue opportunities and how it will affect future performance.

The companies that made it into the Top 100 but did not make the Top 50 Index can be viewed here (NEXT 50)

SmartView^TM is a proprietary investment analytics platform that distills large sets of complex financial and extra-financial data to produce comprehensive, relevant and actionable information for investors and executive decision makers. The extra financial data is gathered and processed to quantify relevant information that provides decision makers with a view on previously unquantifiable risk and hidden alpha potential.

SmartView^TM constantly screens and filters its database of over 5,000 global companies to evaluate an investment’s sustainable performance value – a rating of a company’s total environmental, social and governance performance. Through extensive statistical analysis and testing, this system has determined the Metrics that Matter. SmartView^TM uses 200 metrics that has been proven to have a strong correlation with outperformance and improved shareholder value.