Index-Launch CEERIUS - CEE Responsible Investment Universe

Date: 13.01.2009

The sustainability index CEERIUS (CEE Responsible Investment Universe) is a capitalization-weighted price index which is composed of the leading companies in reference to social and ecological quality that are traded on stock exchanges in the region of Central, Eastern and South- Eastern Europe. The index is calculated and disseminated on a real-time basis in EUR. It is designed as a tradable index and can be used as underlying for structured products and standardized derivatives (futures & options).

The base level of CEERIUS was set at 1,000 points on January 2, 2009.