ESG Analytics | Insights

Unlocking Company Performance: ESG Analytics

This blog post delves into the importance of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) factors in contemporary business operations and investment decisions. It introduces ESG Analytics, a data provider that employs sentiment-based analytics to evaluate company performance from an ESG perspective. The post explains how ESG Analytics uses natural language processing and machine learning algorithms to analyze data from various sources, offering a more holistic view of a company's performance beyond traditional financial metrics. This comprehensive understanding aids investors in making informed decisions and helps companies identify areas for improvement in their ESG performance. The post concludes by emphasizing the growing significance of ESG Analytics in addressing ESG risks and opportunities as ESG concerns continue to rise in importance.

Qayyum Rajan

August 8, 2020

The SASB Framework: An Overview of ESG Analysis

The blog post provides an overview of the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) framework, a tool for analyzing companies from an environmental, social, and governance (ESG) perspective. The SASB framework comprises 26 industry-specific standards, categorized into five areas: environment, social capital, human capital, business model and innovation, and leadership and governance. These standards help investors compare companies within an industry based on their ESG performance. The SASB framework is gaining traction among companies and investors due to its focus on financially material topics and industry-specific guidance. The post concludes by listing the 26 SASB topics and suggesting resources for further learning about the SASB framework and ESG analysis.

Qayyum Rajan

August 8, 2020

ESG Pulse and Beta for April 26th 2023 - Financials somehow continue to avoid controversy risk

Here is a quick industry overview of how industries are responding to ESG for April 26th, 2023

Qayyum Rajan

August 8, 2020

Introducing the ESG Beta Score

ESG Analytics has just announced the launch of a new exciting metric called the ESG Beta - a novel measure that uses the flagship ESG Pulse, regressed on a company's stock price, to determine the correlation between external ESG sentiment and company stock prices. This new metric is set to change the game in ESG investing.

Qayyum Rajan

August 8, 2020

ESG scores for private companies, but how ?

Creating ESG scores for private companies has been a challenge as they do not disclose as much information as public companies. To overcome this challenge, ESG Analytics has developed a unique approach that uses its AI engine, natural language processing (NLP), and external data sources to create ESG scores for private companies

Qayyum Rajan

August 8, 2020

The Ultimate Overview of ESG Databases

In today's world, Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) factors are becoming increasingly important for investors to consider when making investment decisions. As a result, ESG databases have emerged to provide investors with data on the ESG performance of companies. In this blog post, we will provide an overview of some of the ESG databases that exist today.

Qayyum Rajan

August 8, 2020

Everything You Wanted to Know About Alternative Data [2023 updated]

Alternative data is becoming increasingly important in finance, and it is important to understand why. In this article, we will explore what alternative data is, how alternative data differs from traditional data, why alt data it's important, who uses alternative data, and what it means for fintech.

Qayyum Rajan

August 8, 2020

5 Criteria to Analyse Alternative Data

As the world becomes increasingly data-driven, businesses are looking for new ways to gain insights and stay ahead of the competition. Alternative data, which refers to non-traditional data sources such as social media, satellite imagery, and credit card transactions, can provide valuable insights that are not available through traditional data sources. However, analysing alternative data can be challenging because it often lacks the structure and standardisation of traditional data sources. In this blog post, we will discuss five criteria typically used to analyse alternative data for scarcity, granularity, history, structure, and coverage.

Qayyum Rajan

August 8, 2020

Top 10 ESG Data Vendors

ESG Data vendors are companies that provide environmental, social, and governance data to investors, companies, and other stakeholders. This article has a list of the Top 10 ESG Data vendors and an explanation of why you need a ESG Data Vendor as part of your toolkit.

Qayyum Rajan

August 8, 2020