This report presents our approach to sustainability and uses the Sustainability Reporting Guidelines of the Global Reporting Initiative (G3) for guidance on reporting criteria.  A GRI Index is located towards the end of this report.  The report focuses on reporting issues of material interest. We have allocated ourselves a self-rating of B.

This report will no longer be called a sustainable development report but rather known as Our Business Responsibility Report.

To minimise our paper consumption, we no longer distribute hard copies of this report.  A chapter on Our Business Responsibility has been incorporated into the 2008 Investec Annual Report, with links to this electronic report.

Internal Audit statement

Investec Internal Audit performed a limited review of the statements and quantitative data contained in the OBR report. The review covered the following sections of the OBR Report i.e. Employees, Corporate Social Investment and the Environmental Statistics table. Based on the results of our work performed, in our opinion the sustainability report

• Is a fair statement of the Investec’s corporate responsibility policies and initiatives; and
  
• The quantitative data in the sustainability report is free from material misstatement.

Contact

For any queries on the 2008 Our Business Responsibility Report or any other sustainability issues within Investec, please contact:

Carole Mason / Natalie van der Bijl
Corporate Affairs
100 Grayston Drive, Sandown, Sandton 2196, South Africa

Telephone : +27 11 291 3076
Email: ourbusinessresponsibility@investec.co.za