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January 23, 2025
Sustainalytics Insight: Shareholder Democracy and the Challenge of Dual Class Share Structures
Unequal share class structures, where companies have multiple share classes with differing voting rights, are a threat to fair proxy voting and can distort corporate governance, according to a new report from Morningstar Sustainalytics.
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January 7, 2025
Sustainalytics Insight: ESG in Conversation - Morningstar Experts Weigh in on Double Materiality
As we enter 2025, new double-materiality reporting rules as part of the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) are affecting thousands of companies domiciled in Europe and beyond. And, while investors may benefit from information on how companies impact the world around them – referred to as “double materiality” - in addition to the specific environmental, social and governance risks to their businesses, the jury is still out on the utility of impact measures. Morningstar Indexes & Morningstar Sustainalytics President Ron Bundy recently convened a diverse panel of experts to review the double materiality issue from a wide range of perspectives.
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December 3, 2024
Sustainalytics Insight: COP29 Call to Action
As we unpack the results of the recently concluded 29th annual Conference of the Parties, or COP29, in Baku, Azerbaijan, in a new blog post COP29 participant Tom Eveson of Morningstar Sustainalytics shares his perspectives on key takeaways and what he sees as a clear “call-to-action” on climate for the global financial sector.
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October 24, 2024
Sustainalytics Insight: What is Biodiversity Risk & Why Does it Matter for Investors?
With COP 16 kicking off this week it’s a great time to revisit the material risks that biodiversity loss may present for global investors. According to Morningstar Sustainalytics, investing in companies facing high levels of biodiversity risk could have a material effect on long-term portfolio performance. The global ESG research, ratings and data provider uses hypothetical portfolios using its material ESG issue (MEI) data from its ESG Risk Ratings to illustrate this important point.
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February 21, 2023
Morningstar Introduces Global Sustainable Activities Involvement Indexes
Based on Sustainalytics’ ESG Impact Framework and powered by Morningstar Indexes, these new benchmarks help investors gain exposure to companies that align their revenue with the UN SDGs. CHICAGO, Feb. 21, 2023 -- Morningstar, Inc. (Nasdaq: MORN), a leading provider of independent investment research, today introduces a new family of impact-focused ESG indexes combining the strengths of leading global index provider Morningstar Indexes with the ESG Impact Framework of leading ESG research, ratings and data provider Morningstar Sustainalytics.
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May 6, 2022
Euronext launches the OBX® ESG index
Oslo– 6 May 2022 – Oslo Børs, part of the Euronext Group, today launched new OBX® ESG Index, that is now live and available to index users. This index identifies the 40 companies that demonstrate the best Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) practices. The launch of this sustainable index follows the successful launch of the French CAC40® ESG Index, and the Italian MIB® ESG Index and the announcement of the launch of AEX ESG in Amsterdam. ESG assessment of companies is provided by Sustainalytics, a Morningstar Company and a leading global provider of ESG research, ratings and data.
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January 11, 2022
Qontigo extends sustainability offering to portfolio construction and analytics tools
NEW YORK, January 11, 2022 – Qontigo, a leading provider of innovative risk, analytics and index solutions has made available ISS ESG, Clarity AI and Sustainalytics data within its financial optimizer, Axioma Portfolio Optimizer (APO). Sustainalytics will also be integrated into Axioma Portfolio Analytics (APA) for performance attribution and reporting as well as Axioma Risk Model Machine (RMM), which allows users to create custom risk models.
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November 29, 2021
Sustainalytics on Why a Sustainable Supply Chain Matters for Companies
Developing a sustainable supply chain starts at the top. Corporate procurement has traditionally been incentivized to find suppliers with the lowest cost. In a sustainable supply chain, business leaders need to broaden their procurement lens to consider ESG impacts, in addition to traditional metrics like cost and reliability.
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ESG Benchmarking: Helping Asia Pacific companies excel their sustainability performance
Hear from a panel of ESG thought leaders, sharing their insights on how Sustainalytics ESG Benchmarking Solutions supported them understanding its ESG position among industry peers, identifying gaps and communicating sustainability accomplishments to key stakeholders.
