Screen, Research & Analyze Company Performance
Screen and research companies based on criteria of importance to you, or to fulfill specific client mandates.
Our ESG experts bring extensive expertise across a full range of ESG issues, having worked with leading asset owners and asset managers to design tailored solutions to integrate sustainable and responsible investing into their approach and inform investment decisions.
Our ESG experts provide on-going monitoring and research on company practices, assessing information through numerous sources and following through with expert analysis and consultation.
Analysts gather information through the media and other public sources, conduct interviews with stakeholders, and collect information on company policies and practices. Extensive company and stakeholder dialogue, coupled with strict verification, ensures objectivity and exhaustiveness of the research.
The datasets are available through ISS DataDesk for institutional investors to view and screen data across companies, search by company, and monitor portfolios and watchlists.
- Norm-Based Research & Screening
- Environmental & Social QualityScore
- Carbon and Climate Data
- Custom ESG Ratings
- Controversial Weapons Screening
- Ethical Screens
- Energy & Extractives Screens
- Global Sanctions Screening
- Sovereign Research & Screening
- Fund Screening
- Governance QualityScore
Norm-Based Research & Screening
Assesses companies’ adherence to international norms on Human Rights, Labor Standards, Environmental Protection, and Anti-Corruption.
Norm-Based Research Company Reports provide an overall assessment and signals, categorized by degree of verification, severity of impact, and company responsiveness. Commentaries ensure the most critical risks are in focus.
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Environmental & Social QualityScore
Environmental & Social QualityScore provides a data driven approach to measuring the quality of corporate disclosures on environmental and social issues, including sustainability governance, and to identify key disclosure omissions.
Carbon and Climate Data
Carbon and climate data, Scope 1&2 and Scope 3 emissions, for 25,000+ listed companies and issuers of corporate debt. Advisory services are available for all asset classes, including Private Equity, Fixed Income, Real Estate, Loan Books, Infrastructure, Hedge Strategies, Forestry, Agriculture and Green Bonds.
Custom ESG Ratings
A unique and flexible rating solution that helps investors and money managers quickly identify investments that best meet investment guidelines and client expectations.
Controversial Weapons Screening
Assesses companies’ involvement in banned or controversial weapons, including: cluster munitions, anti-personnel mines, depleted uranium, nuclear weapons, and biological and chemical weapons.
Ethical Screens
Assesses companies’ involvement in sectors or products such as alcohol, tobacco, gambling, pornography, weapons, animal welfare, correctional facilities, factory farming & pork, predatory lending, GMOs, pesticides, cannabis and more.
Energy & Extractives Screens
Assesses companies’ exposure to oil, gas, coal, oil sands, arctic drilling, and hydraulic fracturing, as well as power generation from sources such as oil, coal, gas, hydro, solar, wind, geothermal, biomass, and nuclear, and provides carbon reserves data.
Global Sanctions Screening
Assesses companies with ties to countries of concern and/or countries under UN, EU or US sanctions.
Sovereign Research & Screening
Assesses government capacity to protect basic human rights (long-term social impact, governance, multi-lateral sanctions).
Fund Screening
Allows for large scale monitoring of funds on the basis of their underlying holdings. Allows for screening of multi-level fund holdings, fully extendable to underlying fund-in-fund structures.
Governance QualityScore
Governance QualityScore provides data and scores for companies across board structure, compensation/remuneration, shareholder rights, and audit & risk oversight.
