With ASSET4, professional investors can:

• Implement a full range of responsible investment strategies, including negative screening, best-in-class analysis, compliance and risk monitoring, engagement and integration.
• Drive down research costs by delivering systematic, verified and integrated information.
• Increase revenue by enhancing investment research capabilities and empowering new, innovative financial products incorporating ESG aspects.

With ASSET4, corporate executives, CSR managers and IR professionals can:

• Reduce risk by tracking, managing and benchmarking of ESG policies and practices.
• Enhance corporate governance with access to objective and transparent information.
• Stay current on industry changes or issues by monitoring ESG-related news.
• Expand accountability, transparency and trust to increase liquidity and achieve a fair share price.

Why choose ASSET4?

• Coverage – 4300+ listed companies including MSCI World, MSCI Europe, STOXX 600, NASDAQ 100, Russell 1000, S&P 500, FTSE 100, ASX 300 and MSCI Emerging Market.
• Database depth – 750+ data points and 250+ key performance indicators give you the most in-depth coverage in the industry.
• Objective – using only publicly available information, our 120 specially trained analysts scour through company reports and other public sources, and transform the results into comparable and consistent units to enable assessment of different entities.
• Flexible – select only the issues that are most important to you.
• Transparent – view the source of each individual data point.
• News – access ESG-related news information relating to each company allowing you to monitor the status of companies dynamically.
• Timely – the only company whose ratings reflect the most recent controversies that companies face.
  

ASSET4 assetmasterExecutive offers:

Industry-Specific KPIs – monitor the CSR performance and risk of your company and its peers using customizable KPI configurations.

ESG Best Practices – identify CSR best practices within your index, sector, industry or benchmark.

Leading and Lagging KPIs – review the companies within the top and bottom quartile to see how you measure up.

Customized Benchmarks – select from the thousands of companies in ASSET4's ESG database to define a benchmark. Then compare the performance and risk of your company against the benchmark.

Original Source Data – drill into each KPI to understand how it was calculated – and access the original data and sources.

ESG-related News – monitor stories on issues, such as emission reduction, controversies and employee health & safety, and link to the original news story. Set up daily email alerts to notify you of news that matches your criteria.

Datastream Professional offers:

Benchmarking – evaluate the ESG performance of your portfolio against a sector, industry, other portfolio, or one company versus another to better understand strengths and weaknesses.

Charting – advanced Datastream charting functionality makes it possible to create complex and simple times series based data visualizations using ESG and financial information.

Coverage – environmental, social and governance data on 4300+ listed companies including MSCI World, MSCI Europe, STOXX 600, NASDAQ 100, Russell 1000, S&P 500, FTSE 100, ASX 300 and MSCI Emerging Market.

In-depth Information – 750+ ESG data points covering every aspect of sustainability reporting combined into 250+ KPI including a normalized score and the actual computed value. 

History – back to fiscal year 2002 on over 1000+ companies. 

"Apples to apples" comparison – analysts take the ESG data, which lacks fully accepted reporting standards, and transform it into consistent units to enable quantitative analysis of this qualitative data. 

Environmental factors – energy used, water recycled, CO2 emissions, waste recycled, spills and pollution controversies, etc. 

Social factors – employee turnover, injury rate, accidents, training hours, women employee, donations, health & safety controversies, etc. 

Corporate governance factors – executive compensation, board experience, board diversity, anti-takeover devices, compensation controversies, etc.

ASSET4 ESG DATA OFFERS:

Coverage – environmental, social and governance data on 4300+ listed companies including MSCI World, MSCI Europe, STOXX 600, NASDAQ 100, Russell 1000, S&P  500, FTSE 100, ASX 300 and MSCI Emerging Market.

In-depth Information – 750+ ESG data points covering every aspect of sustainability reporting combined into 250+ KPI including a normalized score and the actual computed value.

History – back to fiscal year 2002 on over 1000+ companies.

"Apples to apples" comparison – analysts take the ESG data, which lacks fully accepted reporting standards, and transform it into consistent units to enable quantitative analysis of this qualitative data.

Environmental factors – energy used, water recycled, CO2 emissions, waste recycled, spills and pollution controversies, etc.

Social factors – employee turnover, injury rate, accidents, training hours, women employee, donations, health & safety controversies, etc.

Corporate governance factors – executive compensation, board experience, board diversity, anti-takeover devices, compensation controversies, etc.