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ESG data
35 products carry this category. Categories are tags, so several of these also appear elsewhere.
What is meant by ESG data?
Data describing environmental, social and governance characteristics of issuers and instruments: ratings, emissions and other metrics, controversy flags, and the classifications used to evidence a sustainability claim to a regulator or client.
Who uses ESG data?
Investment teams, compliance and client reporting.
What gets confused with ESG data?
Reference data. ESG data is substantially estimated and opinion-based, and providers disagree with each other far more than they do on identifiers. Treating it as factual reference data is a common and expensive error.
What should you ask a vendor about ESG data?
Ask what proportion of the metric is reported by the issuer and what proportion is modelled by the vendor.
This definition is Buyside Fintech’s own editorial work, not a vendor’s. The products listed below carry the sources we read.
ESG data products
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