CSRHub Blog Research on ESG metrics and comments on sustainability best practice

CSRHub, a leading provider of ESG (Environment, Social, Governance) consensus ratings, is pleased to announce it has partnered with Intrinio, a financial data marketplace that provides fintech data and applications for developers and investors. ESG data is becoming an important component of investment decision processes. Intrinio has partnered with CSRHub to help combine signals about corporate ESG / sustainability performance with the many other data sets it has curated for its system.

Both CSRHub and Intrinio are committed to making financial and ESG data affordable and easy to access so investors and analysts can save money and time building meaningful outcomes.

Investors and researchers increasingly want to integrate their financial data with ESG data for more efficient and impactful analysis. CSRHub data can be used to benchmark ESG performance, increase corporate market value, uncover portfolio opportunities and risks, back-test theories about ESG behavior, and integrate ESG trends into other Business Intelligence data sets.

Using a patented algorithm that aggregates and harmonizes disparate data from 690+ ESG sources, CSRHub generates a consensus score for the ESG performance of 19,000 companies from 134 industries in 143 countries. With many disparate sources of ESG information available, centralizing and interpreting ESG metrics has become burdensome for many firms. CSRHub streamlines ESG data and makes it useful and powerful.

“Partnering with Intrinio to deliver both their analytics and CSRHub’s ESG data to clients will enable investors to leverage powerful insights and enhance their decision-making processes,” said Cynthia Figge, CEO of CSRHub.

“Many of our customers see us as their dedicated data partner and one-stop shop for a variety of financial data feeds. Joining forces with CSRHub to offer their innovative data is a crucial step for us when it comes to serving our clients as they develop cutting-edge apps, algorithms, platforms, and websites,” said Rachel Carpenter, CEO of Intrinio.

For more information, see https://intrinio.com/products/csrhub-esg-ratings.

About CSRHub

CSRHub offers one of the world’s broadest and most consistent set of Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG) ratings, covering 19,000 companies. Its Big Data algorithm combines millions of data points on ESG performance from hundreds of sources, including leading ESG analyst raters, to produce consensus scores on all aspects of corporate social responsibility and sustainability. CSRHub ratings can be used to drive corporate, investor and consumer decisions. For more information, visit www.CSRHub.com. CSRHub is a B Corporation.

About Intrinio

Intrinio is a financial data partner powering innovation by providing high-quality data, cutting-edge tools, and world-class support to quant funds, fintech companies, and academic institutions. Intrinio’s powerful application programming interface (API) is designed for the needs of engineers and developers and supported by more than 200 financial data feeds that can be easily integrated into applications, websites, algorithms, and other financial tools. Learn more at https://intrinio.com.

New York, June 18, 2020 -- CSRHub, the leading provider of ESG (Environment, Social, Governance) consensus ratings, today announced that it has partnered with FinMason, a FinTech firm and investment analytics provider that enables WealthTech platforms to accelerate development and time-to-market, to redistribute its ESG ratings via FinMason’s award-winning API. 

“CSRHub’s multifaceted approach to standardizing ESG data and rankings, and the ability they offer to drill down to several subcategory levels, gives investors a holistic and normalized basis upon which to compare the sustainability performance of various firms,” said Kendrick Wakeman, CEO of FinMason. “We’re excited to contribute the scalability and ease-of-use that our API delivers to help make CSRHub’s ESG data more readily accessible to WealthTech firms and, ultimately, end investors.”

CSRHub helps investors, corporations, and API partners integrate ESG data into their decision-making processes. Using a patented algorithm that aggregates and harmonizes disparate data from over 650 ESG sources, CSRHub generates a consensus score for the ESG performance of more than 19,000 companies from 134 industries in 143 countries. With many disparate sources of ESG information available, centralizing and interpreting ESG metrics has become burdensome for many firms. CSRHub streamlines ESG data and makes it useful and powerful. CSRHub data can be used to benchmark ESG performance, increase corporate market value, uncover portfolio opportunities and risks, back-test theories about ESG behavior, and integrate ESG trends into other Business Intelligence data sets.

“Partnering with FinMason to deliver both their analytics and CSRHub’s ESG data to clients via a single API will empower platforms and investors to leverage powerful insights and enhance their decision-making processes,” said Cynthia Figge, CEO of CSRHub. “The ease of integration that their API offers, and the synergy that their analytics have with our ESG data for better-equipping investors, make them a natural choice as a partner.”

Firms interested in learning more can contact CSRHub at www.CSRHub.com or FinMason at www.finmason.com.

ABOUT CSRHub

CSRHub offers one of the world’s broadest and most consistent set of Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG) ratings, covering 19,000 companies. Its Big Data algorithm combines millions of data points on ESG performance from hundreds of sources, including leading ESG analyst raters, to produce consensus scores on all aspects of corporate social responsibility and sustainability. CSRHub ratings can be used to drive corporate, investor and consumer decisions. For more information, visit www.CSRHub.com. CSRHub is a B Corporation.

ABOUT FINMASON INC.

FinMason, a data redistributor and one of the world's largest investment analytics engines for financial services platforms, enables WealthTech platforms to accelerate development and time-to-market while retaining control of their user experience. Built with speed, flexibility, and scalability in mind, the financial technology firm calculates and delivers more than 700 analytics on every publicly-traded asset in the world via one simple API. For more information, visit www.FinMason.com and follow FinMason on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.

Alexandria, VA  - Telemet America, Inc. a provider of integrated financial information, analytical applications, and charting has added ESG sustainability data to its popular Telemet Orion investment platform sourced from CSRHub®.

CSRHub’s sustainability data adds to a growing list of new services from Telemet in recent years.

ESG ratings and rankings drive perceptions of brand, risk and value.  As such they may affect a company’s business operations and investment performance.  They may also drive buy or sell decisions by asset owners and reveal differences in asset owning preferences.  These impact an institution’s ability to gather and maintain assets across generations.

About Telemet

Since 1979 Telemet has offered real-time market data, stunning charts, deep financial research and portfolio attribution analysis for investment professionals.   Telemet sustainability metrics are deeply integrated into the Telemet Orion investment platform and may be incorporated into portfolio reports to highlight ESG factors.   

About CSRHub®

CSRHub provides access to corporate social responsibility and sustainability ratings and information on  19,000 companies from 134 industries in 143 countries.  Investment and corporate managers and researchers use CSRHub to benchmark company performance, learn how stakeholders evaluate company CSR practices and seek ways to change the world.  Their data comes from socially responsible investing research firms, well-known indexes, publications, “best of” or “worst of” lists, NGOs, crowd sources and government agencies. By aggregating and normalizing the information from these sources, CSRHub has created a broad, consistent rating system and a searchable database that links each rating point back to its source.

For more information, contact Telemet at walker@taquote.com  703-548-2042

In case you missed it with all that is going on in the world these days, we thought we would curate a list of recent webinars for your ESG investing education.

CSRHub® co-founder Bahar Gidwani CTO gave a webinar presentation The Third Era of Integrating ESG Into Investment Processes in partnership with BrightTALK.

A wider range of asset owners are requesting investment products that have sustainability-related claims. This has prompted the creation of passive ETFs, single theme funds (e.g., gender lens, decarbonized), and various types of hedge funds (including long-short and short-only offerings).

Download the webinar to hear what third generation investors appear to be looking for, https://esg.csrhub.com/csrhub-webinar-3rd-era-esg-investing.

CSRHub® co-founders Cynthia Figge CEO and Bahar Gidwani CTO gave a webcast presentation Integrating ESG Consensus Ratings to Create Actionable Signals Business Intelligence in partnership with FactSet.

Watch the on-demand webcast here, https://bit.ly/38YJEQp. 

See more on CSRHub on the Open:FactSet Marketplace here, https://esg.csrhub.com/factset.

See CSRHub’s ESG Business Intelligence Open:FactSet catalog page here, https://open.factset.com/products/csrhub-esg-business-intelligence/en-us.

As a B Corporation, the CSRHub team members are all working remotely and are ready to continue serving your requests.

CSRHub offers one of the world’s broadest and most consistent set of Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG) ratings, covering 19,000 companies. Its Big Data algorithm combines millions of data points on ESG performance from hundreds of sources, including leading ESG analyst raters, to produce consensus scores on all aspects of corporate social responsibility and sustainability. CSRHub ratings can be used to drive corporate, investor and consumer decisions.

Skytop Strategies will launch its Generating Alpha, ESG as a Core Driver of Institutional Portfolio Performance on June 25^th in New York. CSRHub Co-founder and CTO Bahar Gidwani will be speaking on Topic Briefing: State of Play ESG Integrations, The Third Era and moderate an Armchair Chat, ESG and Alpha: Causation Versus Correlation as an Obstacle to Full Integration.

Network with asset allocators, fund managers, investment consultants and capital market experts on investment strategies in the ESG field.

Explore the latest practices in portfolio construction to generate portfolio returns including screening, due diligence and how fund managers benchmark performance against traditional investment strategies.

Identify the state-of-play tools in benchmarking and data analytics that supports long term alpha generation.

Topic Briefing: State of Play
ESG Integrations, The Third Era
Presenter:
Bahar Gidwani, CFA, FSA, Co-founder & CTO, CSRHub

Armchair Chat
ESG and Alpha: Causation Versus Correlation as an Obstacle to Full Integration
Moderator:
Bahar Gidwani, CFA, FSA, Co-founder & CTO, CSRHub
Panelists:
Joshua Linder, CFA, Credit Analyst, Fixed Income, APG, Asset Management US Inc.
Mark Hays, Director of Sustainable and Impact Investing, Glenmede Trust Company
Michael Carty, Investment Expert

June 25, 2020 
PENTHOUSE 45
432 WEST 45th STREET
PH SUITE

For the full program, click here. Receive a 35% discount off the dated price using coupon code CSRHUB2020. Register today.

Bahar Gidwani is CTO and Co-founder of CSRHub. Bahar has built and run large technology-based businesses for many years. Bahar holds a CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst) and was one of the first people to receive the FSA (Fundamentals of Sustainability Accounting) designation from SASB. Bahar worked on Wall Street with Kidder, Peabody, and with McKinsey & Co. He has founded several technology-based companies and is a co-founder of CSRHub, the world’s broadest source of corporate social responsibility information. He has an MBA from Harvard Business School and an undergraduate degree in physics and astronomy. He plays bridge, races sailboats, and is based in New York City.

CSRHub is the largest ESG and sustainability rating and information platform globally. We aggregate 230 million data points from 650+ data sources including leading ESG analyst databases. Our patented algorithm aggregates, normalizes, and weights data to rate 19,000+ companies in 143 countries across 134 industries. We track 97% of world market capitalization. We cover 12 subcategories of ratings and rankings across the categories of environment, employees, community and governance. We show underlying data sources that contribute to each subcategory’s ratings. CSRHub metrics are a consensus view (any 2 sources may have about a 30% correlation so we make sense of the disparate data). We tag companies for their involvement in 17 Special Issues. We provide Macro-enabled Excel dashboard templates, customizable dashboards, and an API. Our big data technology enables 85% full coverage of data across our rated companies and robust analyses. We provide historical ratings back to 2008.