Bloomberg Offers Full Funds Data Suite, Including ESG

Bloomberg has included ESG information in a major new product that provides transparency into almost 150,000 funds and exchange traded products. The Funds Data Solution also offers foundational, holdings, corporate actions, risk and regulatory data.

Linedata Publishes 2023 Global Asset Management Survey

Linedata has published the results of its 2023 Global Asset Management Survey, revealing a focus on operational efficiency, digital transformation, and client experience. The survey is designed to provide insights into the priorities and challenges asset management firms are facing and includes responses from 265 industry leaders across the Americas, Europe, and Asia-Pacific.

The report notes factors that are shaping asset management, including continuing digital transformation led by automation, data integration pain points exemplified by ESG, outsourcing, AI adoption, and the journey to cloud. In support of these factors, it identifies key trends across the asset management community including the need to increase operational efficiency – which is top of the strategic agenda, technology spending priorities on risk management, including compliance, and portfolio and operational risk; intensifying demand for ESG data; and acceleration towards adopting flexible operating models.

Novata Platform Incorporated into IQ:EQ ESG Offerings

Novata, an ESG data provider to private markets and investors, has signed a deal to embed its services with investor assistance group IQ:EQ. US-based Novata’s portfolio assessment platform will be incorporated into IQ:EQ’s various ESG solutions, which enable clients to gather, manage and deploy sustainability data.

WEF Convenes Team to Oversee ISSB Standards

The World Economic Forum (WEF) has brought together a team of experts to offer best-practices guidance to the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB). The group will monitor implementation and adoption of ISSB’s first set of standards, which are set to be unveiled by the end of this month, and offer insights and advice.

Arabesque Builds ESG Index with HSBC

Data vendor and asset manager Arabesque has jointly created an AI-supported ESG index with HSBC. The ESG Risk Improvers Index uses publicly available data and data from Arabesque’s ESG Book, a sustainability metrics platform built for financial institutions in conjunction with several large international banks.

GaiaLens Builds News Sentiment Tracker

A news sentiment scoring tool has been created to help investors gauge the ESG performances of listed companies. AI-backed GaiaLens Momentum AI assesses the scores against the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals, giving investors real-time visibility into their investments’ activities before they issue their periodic reports.

KX Collaborates with AWS to Make kdb Insights a Managed Service on Amazon FinSpace

KX, creator of the kdb+ time series and analytics database, has teamed up with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to make kdb Insights available as a fully managed service on Amazon FinSpace. Managed kdb Insights enables investment banks and hedge funds to launch, configure, run, and scale capital markets analytics and AI workloads with just a few clicks. Firms already using applications that rely on kdb Insights can migrate to AWS in days without modifying queries or workflows, and gain the agility, scalability, high availability, and security of AWS.

Ashok Reddy, CEO at KX, says: “With the launch of kdb Insights on Amazon FinSpace, our customers can experience unparalleled levels of price versus performance thanks to the market-leading capabilities of our Data Timehouse technology and the powerhouse that is AWS.”

ISS ESG and Qontigo Launch Joint Biodiversity Index

ISS ESG, the sustainable investment arm of Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), and index compiler Qontigo have created a jointly branded biodiversity benchmark timed for release on the United Nations’ International Day for Biological Diversity. The ISS STOXX Biodiversity Index Suite enables investors to align their portfolios with biodiversity impact targets and applicable UN Sustainable Development Goals.

SwanCap Implements Canoe Intelligence to Manage Alternative Investment Documents and Data Processes

Munich-based SwanCap Partners, an independent investment boutique, is working with Canoe Intelligence, a provider of alternative investment solutions, to automate and manage its document collection and data management processes, specifically for its capital calls, distributions, and account statements.

SwanCap has implemented two Canoe solutions: Canoe Connect, to automatically collect alternative investment documents from portals and email inboxes using API connectivity and deliver the aggregated documents to Canoe Intelligence; and Canoe Intelligence, to categorise, extract, and validate relevant private market investment data, and deliver clean, actionable insights to clients’ downstream systems.

Gryphon Fund Group Selects Linedata Mfact

Gryphon Fund Group, a fund administration firm servicing registered and private investment companies, has selected Linedata Mfact to streamline fund accounting, NAV calculation and reporting processes onto a single global platform. Gryphon says Linedata Mfact has helped it to simplify a number of back-office operations and integrate the daily workflow with other reporting requirements allowing its team of accounting experts to focus on client technical matters rather than processing client data.