Scientific Beta

Benefits and Pensions Monitor: "The incorporation of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) dimensions into investment analysis and decision-making processes and reporting has traditionally been optional and a low priority for institutional investors outside the ethical and socially responsible investment sphere. However, this is changing rapidly owing to both push and pull factors, says Scientific Beta’s enhanced ESG and climate risk reporting paper."

Benefits and Pensions Monitor 15/07/2019

"(...) The incorporation of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) dimensions into investment analysis and decision-making processes and reporting has traditionally been optional and a low priority for institutional investors outside the ethical and socially responsible investment sphere. However, this is changing rapidly owing to both push and pull factors, says Scientific Beta’s enhanced ESG and climate risk reporting paper. On the one hand, institutional investors are increasingly required, or expected, to explain how they factor in ESG dimensions and, notably, climate change into investment decisions and to report on their ESG incorporation processes and the ESG performance of their investments. On the other hand, a growing number of institutional investors consider that the ESG characteristics of investments may have a material impact on investment risks and returns or recognize that an increasing share of end-investors wish to see the environmental and social impacts of investments considered together with their financial characteristics. Comprised of ESG norms and climate change analytics, its enhanced ESG reporting assists investors with the incorporation of ESG dimensions in investment management. " (...)"