Partners

Independent Verification Panel

Within 12 months of a product achieving the status of Certified Responsible Investment, the Program Standard requires Certified Product issuers to be subject to an independent verification.

Current Panel Members

All new product applications and a selection of recertifying product applications where material changes have occurred between certifications, are subject to an independent Third Party Verification.

However an exception may be applied if the:

• Issuer has an existing Certified product – with the same or very similar RI approaches – that has been subject to an independent Third Party Verification.
• Third Party Verification over the existing product has been undertaken in the past two years and the outcome was favourable in reference to the selected Verification Scope(s) outlined below.
• RIAA Certification Team has sufficient comfort that a Third Party Verification is not additive to the objectives of the Program, particularly consumer protections.

ESG Research Partners

RIAA’s Responsible Investment Certification Program is the trusted source on quality responsible investment products and services in Australia and New Zealand.

The Program verifies and assures that a responsible investment product is delivering on its sustainability claims, meets high standards of delivering on those claims, and is transparent on the approach to responsible investment.

RIAA has recently partnered with 4 ESG Research partners to provide a further in-depth ESG analysis, to our long running and trusted Certification Program.

We are grateful to the following ESG Research Providers for their support of RIAA’s Certification Program.