ESG data provider Integrum ESG has launched software designed to aggregate ESG ratings from ratings providers and give investors the ability to monitor short-term and long-term trends in the market.
The Consensus ESG Ratings module is said to provide asset manager clients with a tool to see the consensus ESG score for any company, either as an absolute rating or a relative percentile ranking, across a 10-year time series. The scores it provides indicate how the capital markets have ‘priced in’ a company’s ESG performance.
It is hoped this will allow users to quickly understand the market’s view on a company and easily conduct relative ESG analysis on the positions they hold within their portfolio.
This regularly updated data is provided by CSRHub, a provider of consensus ESG ratings that aggregates and normalises ratings from a range of licensed sources – from large ESG ratings firms such as MSCI, ISS, S&P Global and Sustainalytics, to specialists such as CDP and Better World Companies.
Shai Hill, founder and CEO of Integrum ESG, commented: “Many investors have told us they want a sense of ‘what is priced in’ in terms of a company’s ESG performance, so they can compare this to what any one ESG ratings firm is saying. CSRHub is the only firm to have credibly achieved this, thanks to a model refined over years and a vast data lake – so we are delighted to be partnering with them.”
Bahar Gidwani, co-founder of CSRHub, added: “Investors need to fine tune their ESG-related investment strategies to improve their returns and better match the preferences of their clients. Combining CSRHub’s expert outside-in, consensus view of ESG with Integrum ESG’s detailed real-time data stream provides a strong solution for these needs.”
