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 – 3400 listed companies including the S&P 500, Russell 1000, MSCI Europe, FTSE 250, ASX 300, the MSCI World Index and the 250 MSCI emerging markets companies.
• 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 100+ 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.

ASSET4 assetmasterProfessional offers:

Dynamic Ratings – take advantage of default equal-weighted ratings and user-customized ones that reflect the up-to-date ESG performance of companies – a unique capability in the industry.

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.

Track a Portfolio – upload an existing portfolio and its weights or build one based on very specific ESG criteria and weights for analysis.

Customized Frameworks – define your own ratings. Select from 750+ data points and 250+ indicators and then weight and score (point-based, z-score or percentile ranking) them to match your specific investment mandates.

Original Source Data – drill into each data point and indicator 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.

Excel Add-In – integrate any of the 750+ data points or 250+ key performance indicators into Excel-based reports and analysis.

ASSET4 ESG DATA OFFERS:

Coverage – Environmental, social and governance data on 3400+ global companies covering FTSE 250, S&P 500, NASDAQ 100, DJ STOXX, Russell 1000, S&P ASX 200 and MSCI World indices.

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 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.