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February 4, 2025
Sustainalytics Insight: Sustainable Value Chains - Top 10 Trends & Companies for 2025
In a new report Morningstar Sustainalytics ESG Research Associate Director Martin Vezer and his coauthors present what they see as 10 important ESG themes for investors to watch in 2025. The report highlights 10 companies that are well positioned relative to peers to capitalize on each of the themes.
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January 30, 2025
Sustainalytics Insight: Asset Managers, Proxy Voting & ESG - The Widening Gap
Asset manager support for environmental and social proposals saw a significant decline in the 2024 proxy season with particular challenges in US asset managers, according to a new report from Morningstar Sustainalytics.
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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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November 16, 2021
Forbes 2021 Green Growth 50
To build this list [Forbes] partnered with Sustainalytics, a division of Morningstar, to screen American public companies according to their emissions reductions. Limiting the search to companies with more than 100,000 annual tons of emissions and market cap greater than $5 billion yielded roughly 100 companies. Next, utilizing data from FactSet Research Systems, we looked at profitability. Only half made the cut — having increased profits (mostly measured by cash flow or EBITDA, but in some cases, we had to use net income) since 2017.
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September 15, 2021
SS&C Launches New ESG Reporting Solutions
SS&C Technologies Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: SSNC) today announced the launch of its ESG reporting solutions platform for asset managers to better monitor and report on ESG exposure in their portfolios. SS&C’s platform will support compliance with the EU Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) and deliver greater insights and transparency into ESG portfolio risks.
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June 21, 2021
Sustainalytics Weighs in on EU Taxonomy’s State of Flux
On May 7th, the European Commission published draft rules on how corporates and financial institutions should report on their alignment with the EU Taxonomy. The draft rules are laid out in a very technical document and not an easy read. This might explain why certain changes with significant impact on timelines and scope of the EU Taxonomy Regulation have flown under the radar of media and investors. Some of the impacts even escaped the attention of financial market participants responding to the consultation on the rules.
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June 18, 2021
Foxberry to Offer Sustainalytics’ ESG Research And Ratings via the foxf9® Platform
Foxberry today announced it is collaborating with Sustainalytics, a Morningstar company and a leading global provider of ESG research, ratings and data, to offer institutional investors access to a wide range of ESG information through the foxf9® platform. Leveraging Sustainalytics’ rich set of ESG ratings and data, investors can create unique indexes and assess their performance. Foxberry’s foxf9 platform enables clients to seamlessly assess multiple data sources in one place and the foxf9 calculation and back testing engine can provide a deeper level of understanding ESG data.
