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ISS ESG Enhances Biodiversity Tool to Offer Portfolio Report
The sustainable investment arm of ISS STOXX, ISS ESG, has enhanced its biodiversity assessment product with a new portfolio report, and has expanded the full solution’s coverage to over 17,000 companies. ISS ESG’s Biodiversity Impact Assessment Tool (BIAT) Portfolio Report add-on enables investors to compare a portfolio’s biodiversity risk and impact against a benchmark, and is…
2023 in Review: The Rise of the Machines
Artificial intelligence (AI) seemed to take on a life of its own in 2023. ChatGPT, the large language model-based (LLM) generative AI (GenAI), grabbed headlines with horror stories of hallucinations and doomy sci-fi predictions of lost jobs and machines running wild over humanity. Most ignored the fact that AI in its various forms had been…
Clarity AI to Expand ML and GenAI Product Development on AWS
Clarity AI has expanded its presence in the cloud to take advantage of new capabilities that will enable it to better develop artificial intelligence (AI) products and services. The US-based sustainability tech company will increase its presence on AWS and harness more of its tools to develop and test applications that Clarity AI can then roll out…
CFAI Teaches Finance Professionals Nuts and Bolts of ESG Analysis
The issuers of a world-renowned accreditation for financial analysts said that demand for specific expertise in sustainable investing is growing despite recent criticism of ESG. The CFA Institute (CFAI), which issues charters that are recognised as a mark of financial analytical proficiency the world over, is offering a certificate in sustainable finance. It will teach…
Iceberg Data Labs Confident its Model is Filling ESG Gaps
There’s no doubting Matthieu Maurin’s confidence in his company’s ESG data model. The founder and chief executive of Iceberg Data Labs, a fast-growing ESG data start-up that has netted clients such as Euronext, Aviva and HSBC in just four years of operations says it is solving for a range of challenges that keep chief data…
Euronext Launches ‘First of-its-kind’ Exchange-based ESG Tool
Europe-wide market provider Euronext is ready to launch a “first of its kind” ESG tool providing comprehensive data, free of charge, to the market. The company’s My ESG Profile is now available to listed companies, before its public release scheduled mid-November. Issuers are currently in the process of reviewing the data collected by Euronext, and…
Vendor Strategy: BIQH Adds Screening to ESG Data Tool Set
Screening is an effective means of ensuring financial products comprise the companies that suit a fund’s mandate. For ESG it’s been a potent tool for eliminating fossil fuel producers, tobacco companies, arms manufacturers and the gamut of businesses that are anathema to investment products built on the philosophy of doing good for humanity and the…
RIMM Tool Provides ESG Missing Link, Says Outspoken Expert Beslik
Sasja Beslik is an unusual figure within the ESG ecosystem. The newly appointed senior adviser to RIMM, a sustainability data and tech provider, is passionate about getting ESG right within the investment industry. But he is critical – to the point of damning – of the way it’s currently being managed. “The entire purpose with…
Financial Institutions Slow to Disclose Nature-Related Metrics: CDP
A prominent sustainability disclosures body has said data availability and accuracy are contributory factors in financial institutions’ slow reaction to addressing biodiversity loss linked to their investments. Only one in 10 banks, asset owners, asset managers and insurers disclosing metrics on their portfolios’ impacts forests and water security, the CDP said in its latest examination…
Model Behaviour: Testing the Tools that Underpin ESG Decisions
The quality of data and technology used in ESG systems is of growing importance to investors and regulators as they seek to do more with the information available, to comply with regulations and to arm themselves against accusations of greenwashing. Last week we discussed the emerging body of work that’s bringing accountancy-level assurance to ESG…