As ESG investing becomes mainstream, asset managers face growing pressure to align with sustainability goals. From stricter regulations to greenwashing risks and the need for operational excellence, this blog explores how firms can adapt their strategies to thrive in an increasingly ESG-focused investment landscape.
Learn how a leading Oil & Gas firm gained complete Scope 3 visibility, improved reporting credibility, and built internal sustainability capabilities through a structured partnership with Evalueserve.
Asset managers face ESG data challenges like inconsistency and regulatory complexity. This piece highlights the need for harmonization and outlines a clear strategy to enable smarter, sustainable investing.
The February 2025 edition of Sustainability Watch highlights crucial regulatory updates worldwide, including EU’s sustainable finance reforms, North America’s climate policies, and APAC’s renewable energy advancements. Stay informed on key sustainability trends and compliance requirements.
January 2025’s Sustainability Watch highlights regulatory shifts worldwide, from ESG risk guidelines in the EU to evolving climate policies in North America and sustainable finance frameworks in South America and APAC.
Discover the future of Asset & Wealth Management in 2025. Find out how technology impacts efficiency and revenue streams.
Amid rising geopolitical tensions and economic uncertainties, businesses face increasing pressure to balance sustainability with profitability. Discover how companies are adapting their ESG strategies in response to global political and economic shifts.
Discover the concept of double materiality and its significance for asset managers. Learn how integrating ESG factors can enhance risk management and create long-term portfolio resilience.
Businesses are embracing nature-positive strategies as awareness of biodiversity loss grows. Discover how COP15’s 30×30 and new regulations are reshaping sustainable practices.
Explore COP29’s goals to limit global warming, set new climate finance targets, and advance carbon markets, loss and damage, and national climate plans.
Forced labor in global supply chains is under increased scrutiny with new regulations. Evalueserve’s ESG tools offer solutions to help companies ensure compliance and manage risks effectively.
GH2 India 2024 will be the best opportunity in 2024 to engage directly with potential hydrogen
buyers, infrastructure, energy and tech companies designing the supply chain. It will bring
together key stakeholders and help fast track the growth in the hydrogen industry.
Sustainable finance is a key driver in the global roadmap to achieving the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030. Learn how financial strategies and innovations are supporting environmental, social, and governance initiatives to create a more sustainable future.
Discover how the circular economy can reduce CO2 emissions, cut costs, and create jobs while extending resource life cycles.
Discover the snacking industry’s evolution from indulgent treats to essential diet components, driven by consumer trends and regulations.
Explore the stages of financed emissions reporting maturity and the challenges faced by banks. Gain insights on overcoming data issues and improving accuracy in our in-depth report.
Explore the evolving landscape of ESG regulations in South America, highlighting key advancements, challenges, and the impact on international trade and investments.
Discover how the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS) revolutionize sustainability reporting, enhancing transparency and comparability for asset managers, and enabling informed sustainable investment decisions.
Uncover the rising trend of greenwashing, its sophisticated tactics, and the regulatory measures being implemented to ensure transparency and accountability in environmental claims.
Explore the latest trends in Green Bonds, ISSB implementation, and regional ESG news, highlighting China’s lead in Green Bond issuance and the rapid adoption of ISSB guidelines.
Navigate the rapidly evolving landscape of ESG regulations, understand the political influences impacting their approval, and learn how these changes affect businesses across Europe and beyond.
Discover how international collaboration is driving the sustainable development of China’s renewable energy sector and shaping the future of green finance.
Celebrate Earth Day 2024 by integrating sustainability as a fundamental value in your business and implementing comprehensive strategies for environmental protection and prosperity.
Explore the new draft guidelines for mandatory sustainability reporting in Mainland China, aiming to standardize ESG disclosures and align with international frameworks.
Explore the transformative power of ESG disclosure in driving corporate accountability, fostering informed investment decisions, and improving access to capital.
Explore the evolution of the ESG Disclosure ecosystem, the role of ISSB in standardizing the process globally, and the emerging concern of greenwashing.
In this live discussion, Evalueserve’s ESG Center of Excellence will explore lessons learned from 20 years of producing ESG data.
Explore China’s Sustainability Newsletter for Q4 2023, featuring updates on carbon trading, hydrogen energy guidelines, green bonds, and more, as the country advances towards carbon neutrality.
Becoming a sustainable business is now an essential requirement for organizations across all sectors. The growing demands from customers, regulators, and shareholders to decrease carbon emissions are influencing the course of action for procurement, distribution, and utilization of resources.
The 2023 proxy season saw a significant increase in ESG-related proposals, constituting 55% of the 889 submissions, with social issues being the dominant theme.
Scope 3 emissions often constitute the bulk of a company’s carbon footprint. In this blog, we outline how companies can reduce their impact.
This report offers valuable insights into the evolving landscape of ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) data, drawing on Evalueserve’s over two decades of specialized expertise in this domain.
Explore China’s Sustainability Newsletter for Q3 2023, featuring updates on carbon trading, hydrogen energy guidelines, green bonds, and more, as the country advances towards carbon neutrality.
The United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) face a critical juncture. At the halfway point to 2030, the world is not on track to achieve the SDGs agreed to in 2015.
Discover how Evalueserve helped an asset management firm optimize portfolio allocations using Modern Portfolio Theory, ensuring accuracy and resilience in ESG-focused investments.
Discover how Evalueserve’s comprehensive validation of ESG scoring methodologies empowers asset managers to make responsible investments and drive innovation.
Discover how Evalueserve’s comprehensive validation of an asset management firm’s carbon emissions model ensures accuracy and compliance, supporting sustainable investment strategies.
Discover how a leading asset manager enhanced their ESG funds through a validated in-house rating model, enabling informed investment decisions and strategic alignment.
Learn how Evalueserve’s thorough validation of a climate risk model empowers asset managers to make informed decisions, enhance financial performance, and meet ESG goals.
Comparing Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) data across companies can be challenging due to issues with data quality and completeness, as well as the lack of standardization. This report highlights the difficulties users face when attempting to use ESG data to make meaningful comparisons.
Explore how the DOL’s new rule enables retirement plans to consider ESG factors, impacting stakeholders and paving the way for sustainable investment options.
Discover the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) and its impact on large companies, including Scope 3 emission reporting requirements and adherence to European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS).
Evalueserve leverages its research and modeling capabilities to support its client, a multinational financial services firm, and its ESG advisory teams in its CIB division. The partnership yielded significant benefits such as disseminating ESG knowledge, providing holistic insights, and aiding in target screening, demonstrating Evalueserve’s commitment to promoting a more responsible financial landscape.
Explore how Evalueserve’s library services support helped a top global investment bank gain efficiency and achieve significant cost savings. The partnership increased productivity, saved substantial costs, and improved quality, solidifying Evalueserve’s position as a valuable knowledge process outsourcing partner for the bank’s global operations.
Explore how Evalueserve’s library services support helped a top global investment bank gain efficiency and achieve significant cost savings. The partnership increased productivity, saved substantial costs, and improved quality, solidifying Evalueserve’s position as a valuable knowledge process outsourcing partner for the bank’s global operations.
Discover the importance of monitoring ESG controversies for asset managers and learn how to reduce risks while maintaining a positive reputation
Despite political polarization and state-level restrictions, global ESG regulations are on the rise, and the pending EU Corporate Sustainability and Reporting Directive will impact thousands of companies worldwide, indicating the continued importance and growth of ESG reporting. Read about this and more in our Q2 2023 ESG Newsletter.
Discover the latest insights in our sustainability newsletter, covering China’s sustainability trends, green finance news, carbon trading, and policy updates.
Explore the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s proposed rule for climate-related disclosures, including Scope 3 emissions reporting, reactions from industries, and potential scenarios. Stay ahead in the journey to net-zero emissions.
Explore Evalueserve’s innovative C.A.S.E. methodology for comprehensive ESG controversy assessments, empowering investors to make informed decisions and build resilient, sustainable portfolios.
To effectively shape a company’s ESG strategy and communicate its performance, it is crucial to have a benchmarking process in place, but relying on scores alone is risky; enhanced insights drive effective decisions.
Evalueserve’s ESG Intelligence Program provides tailored solutions to asset and wealth management clients. These solutions equip ESG asset managers with custom ESG research, which allows for the curation of ESG data specific to an asset manager’s investment philosophy, process, and reporting needs.
Discover the key challenges facing companies in the future mobility landscape, from technological advancements and infrastructure development to regulatory frameworks and public acceptance. Learn about the importance of sustainability, integration and interoperability, and security and cybersecurity.
The start of 2023 sees sustainability at the top of businesses’ priority lists. A recent survey conducted in Q1 found that 71% of respondents ranked sustainability as their top near-term (next six months) priority. Respondents were collectively optimistic about their progress, with over 90% suggesting they were somewhat or extremely successful in reaching their sustainability goals over the past 12 months. Further, they expressed increased optimism about meeting goals for the next year (72%) and for 2030 (77%).
In this quarter, China has taken various actions to promote the renewable energy transition. Domestically, China government launched a national Climate Prediction Model for wind and solar resources. Internationally, China Energy has proposed the construction of a 1,000-megawatt floating solar plant in Zimbabwe and LONGi Green Energy plans to build a $600 Million Solar Panel Plant in the U.S.
Our client wanted to launch new ESG funds for European investors. For this, the client wanted to track current and prospective portfolio companies on various economic (E), social (S), and governance (G) parameters using a prioritization framework. The client also wanted to continuously monitor portfolio companies as required by the SFDR, SEC, and other ESG regulations.
Discover how the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) affects asset managers. Learn how complying with this EU regulation can reduce risk exposure and improve financial performance.
2022 marked a tumultuous year for ESG and sustainability. The recent COP27 talks required overtime to produce a final document to avoid derailing years of progress on climate change. Moreover, geopolitical events and their economic impact upset the momentum fueling the prolific ESG investing of late. Nevertheless, despite headwinds, ESG-related investments remain substantial.
One of the biggest challenges in ESG reporting according to investors is the lack of transparent and consistent data. It is important to understand and distinguish the challenges across the ESG data and insights value chain and then follow a piecemeal approach to address each of them. In this article, we will explore the three levels of the ESG data value chain and address these challenges and how to meet them.
In the last quarter of 2022, Hong Kong jurisdiction unveils vigorous initiatives toward sustainable development. Meanwhile, China’s national ETS achieved a 10-billion-yuan (US$1.4 billion) transaction value in December.
Whether driven by investors’ concerns, regulatory mandates, or broader social norms, the number of corporations pledging net zero GHG emissions goals continues to increase. More than 750 of the world’s 2,000 largest publicly traded corporations have announced net zero goals.
In this quarter, China’s carbon emission trading market has turned one year old. The country’s cumulative trading volume of carbon emission quota had reached 194 million tons, with a total trading value of 8.49 billion yuan. Also, following the national Dual Carbon goal, provinces and cities in China have successively published their own Implementation Plan for Carbon Peaking.
On December 8, 2020, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) published the Guidelines on Environmental Risk Management for Insurers. These guidelines are aimed at improving the management of environmental risks by all insurers, in line with the expectations of the MAS.
A US-based investment management firm wanted to launch ESG funds for investors in Europe. It onboarded Evalueserve as a strategic partner to provide in-depth reviews of its target companies’ E, S, and G performance.
In this quarter, China is strengthening its disclosure by taking into effect the new ESG Disclosure Standard on 1 June. Also, a series of policies was published to promote energy efficiency and renewable energy transition for achieving the national Dual Carbon targets.
Check out the hottest news in ESG with the Q2 2022 edition of our ESG Newsletter.
ESG-focused asset management (AM) firms are facing increased regulatory pressure and scrutiny to prioritize and tackle “greenwashing”. The term greenwashing is generally used to represent the practice of identifying a business as more ‘sustainable,’ ‘green,’ ‘low-carbon,’ and ‘planet-friendly,’ when, in truth, an entity may be either creating a false impression.
ESG orientation is creating value through higher revenue growth, cost optimization, lower financing costs, higher employee productivity, etc. Few big players are leading the way to standardize ESG reporting and closely tracking KPIs for their portfolio companies, a trend that will be followed by other players.
More than one year has now passed since China’s initial announcement of achieving Carbon Neutrality by 2060, also known as “30-60” Goals. Following the announcement, various measures have been introduced across the country starting from the province/city level to the institution and company level to align with the national target.
Check out the hottest news in ESG with the Q1 2022 edition of our ESG Newsletter.
This update of the China ESG Newsletter from Q4 of 2021 covers a series of measures that aim to accelerate the development of a green economy have been taken in mainland China, Hongkong, Macao, and Taiwan.
Check out the hottest news in ESG with the Q4 2021 edition of our ESG Newsletter.
Evalueserve, a leading global research and analytics firm, has become a signatory to the UN-supported Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), emphasizing its dedication to helping clients progress responsible initiatives and build a sustainable future.
The 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26), held in Glasgow in November 2021, culminated in the Glasgow Climate Pact, which
Introduction The purpose of this blog is to construct and analyze the performance of an in-house ESG index for the Chilean
Let’s discuss the challenges that come with adopting ESG indexes, are they more than a green initiative, how and what does it mean?
Lets talks about ESG enablers – Data, Rating & Index Services, Consulting & Auditing Services, Software, Reporting & Analytics
Key takeways on ESG Data, it’s reliance, trends and best ways to achieve sustainability goals.
July 1, 2021
Strategic sustainability with a focus on long-term value creation goes beyond ESG data, Corporate Social Responsibility programs, standalone product innovations, and technology acquisitions.
ESG participants offer their thoughts based on their backgrounds, index providers, and academia.
The objective of the stress testing is to understand the resilience of UK-based Banks and Insurance agencies from physical and transition risks emanating from climate change.
When you think about sustainability, you probably won’t have Latin America at the top of your mind.
May 25, 2021
With emerging rules and regulations on ESG reporting and increased sustainability mandates, Investment Managers must take a deeper dive into their portfolios.
Lithium, the most important metals used in clean energy technologies and is widely perceived as the metal that will catapult the world into a low-carbon future.
We gathered our data from text extracted from PDF reports with different sections belonging to Environmental, Social, and Governance parameters. Based on a set of questions in the three parameters mentioned above, we need to find the answers from the text extracted.
An oil & gas giant envisioned reducing its carbon footprint by modifying its existing supply chain.
Asset managers rely on third-party composite scores for their investment decision-making. But how reliable and valid is this data, and does it truly meet their investment objectives? Let’s try and understand.
ESG investing – still not convincing financial advisors? See what will make them drive the demand for it and how asset managers can support them.
The key pillars for a strong ESG data strategy are smart data interventions, backed up by input from subject matter experts (SMEs). Here are four areas where that approach can help you overcome ESG data issues.
Sector & Account Intelligence
MICI for Asset & Wealth Management
CI for Management Consulting Firms
ESG Intelligence for Asset Managers Fund Marketing & Digital Marketing Intellectual Property Management MICI for Real Estate
ESG Controversy Monitoring for Asset Managers
Patent Analysis
RPA For Risk Model Management
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