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Emissions Data Disclosures Jump, MSCI Report Says
More companies are reporting their greenhouse gas data – including Scope 3 emissions – to investors and regulators, according to a report that suggests yawning gaps in corporate ESG records may be closing. Scope 3 data, which tracks the emissions of businesses within corporate supply and distribution chains, is now reported fully or in part…
Colmore Integrates Dasseti Sustainability Tech into PE Data Portal
Post-investment services firm Colmore is the latest company to engage sustainability software provider Dasseti in private markets data processes. The unit of British alternative assets business Preqin coordinates data gathering and other services for limited partners (LPs) and allocators – which largely comprise financial institutional investors. It has integrated Dasseti Collect into its suite of…
New Bloomberg Indices Provide Sovereign Bond Climate-Tilted Benchmarks
Investors seeking to integrate measures of climate transition risk into the portfolio management process **can now benchmark against countries’ climate preparedness via a new set of Bloomberg indices. The Bloomberg Government Climate Tilted Bond Index family integrates carbon-reduction performance and other factors into sovereign bond indices. They are built with Bloomberg’s proprietary Government Climate Scores, which…
$10m Cash Injection Adds Fuel to IDL Growth
Iceberg Data Lab’s (IDL) meteoric growth has been given another boost. The Paris-based ESG data start-up last week received a US$10 million cash injection in a series A funding round. The company, which uses artificial intelligence to power a data model that founder Matthieu Maurin boasts has “no data gaps”, received backing from investors including…
Regulations to be put Under Microscope at ESG Data and Tech Summit
Regulatory rollouts over the next 12 months are likely to be pivotal in setting the scene for the next stage of the ESG data and technology space as political attitudes towards sustainability diverge from the demands of investors. Pushback against sustainability markets has already seen several regulatory codes, both implemented and proposed, watered down. At…
GRESB Launches Real Estate Tool to Benchmark Individual Buildings
A new suite of tools has been launched to help investors and fund managers assess the sustainability of real estate assets in their portfolios. REAL Benchmarks, one of several new services created by real estate ESG-data provider GRESB, enables the identification of individual buildings with poor performance compared with peers to encourage owners to begin…
ESG Data Keeps on Evolving, but are Financial Institutions Keeping Pace?
By Yann Bloch, head of product and pre-sales Americas at NeoXam. Earlier this month, Bloomberg published their much-anticipated annual European ESG Data Trends Survey report, carrying with it some fascinating findings on the current state of the market. The survey, taken by respondents from London, Stockholm, Geneva, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Paris, and Milan throughout 2023, posed questions about…
UK Moves Dial on ESG Data Assurance and Regulations
The UK has moved further along the dial of sustainability and reporting regulations with a slew of developments that suggest new rules are imminent. Announcements covering data assurance and biodiversity disclosure standards were announced a week after the Chancellor of the Exchequer signalled in his annual budget speech that ratings companies will come under the…
Confluence Adds MSCI ESG Research Data into Style Analytics
Confluence Technologies, a solutions provider to the investment management industry, has integrated MSCI ESG Research data into its factor investing analytics solution, Style Analytics. The data will help asset managers and fund selectors by offering in-depth analysis, comparison, and enhancement of portfolios. Damian Handzy, managing director, analytics, at Confluence, comments: “Style Analytics’ integration of MSCI’s…
Vendor Strategy: Impact Cubed Has a 3D Vision for ESG
The novelty of the ESG data space has inspired many innovations to help financial institutions build their sustainability investment and risk programmes. Most have sought to fill gaps in the nascent data market. Impact Cubed, however, found its impetus in a very different experience: disenchantment with what was already on offer. The investment solutions company was…