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ISS ESG
Financial Services
Rockville, Maryland 45,589 followers
ISS ESG is the responsible investment arm of Institutional Shareholder Services Inc.
About us
ISS ESG is the responsible investment arm of Institutional Shareholder Services Inc., the world’s leading provider of environmental, social, and governance solutions for asset owners, asset managers, hedge funds, and asset servicing providers. With more than 30 years of corporate governance expertise and 25 years of providing in-depth responsible investment research and analytics, ISS ESG has the unique understanding of the requirements of institutional investors. With its comprehensive offering of solutions, ISS ESG enables investors to develop and integrate responsible investing policies and practices, engage on responsible investment issues, and monitor portfolio company practices through screening solutions. It also provides climate data, analytics, and advisory services to help financial market participants understand, measure, and act on climate-related risks across all asset classes. In addition, ISS ESG delivers corporate and country ESG research and ratings enabling its clients to identify material social and environmental risks and opportunities. Along with these robust ESG offerings, the unit provides institutions with an established standard in measuring, analyzing, projecting, valuing, and discounting a firm’s underlying economic profit.
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External link for ISS ESG
- Industry
- Financial Services
- Company size
- 201-500 employees
- Headquarters
- Rockville, Maryland
- Type
- Privately Held
- Founded
- 1993
- Specialties
- Rating Agency, Responsible Investment, SRI, ESG Research, Climate Research, Governance Research, Norm Based Research, Climate Data, and ESG Index
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Employees at ISS ESG
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Berrak F. Dogruer
Global Leader - Lived and worked in three continents | Go-to-Market Strategy and Execution | B2B Marketing | Product Strategy | Build and Scale |…
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Edouard Ruelle
Vice President, ESG Client Success Specialist
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Madhavi Botla
Responsible Investing Sales Specialist | ESG and Climate Integration | Mission-Driven | Learner
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Nathan Worthington
Updates
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ISS ESG Quarterly Engagement Update – Q2 2024: Net Zero Is the Top Priority Topic, with the Launch of the Second Cycle of the Net Zero Thematic Engagement ISS ESG’s Quarterly Engagement Update series highlights key trends that emerge through activities conducted on behalf of participating investors under ISS ESG’s Collaborative Engagement Services. These services allow investors to participate in cost-effective joint outreach and dialogue with companies on material sustainability-related themes. ISS ESG facilitated engagement on behalf of signatory investors with a total of 172 companies across 202 topics. ISS ESG conducted engagements with 50 companies under Norms-Based Engagement, the Thematic Engagement solution facilitated engagement with 122 companies, and seven companies were engaged with both solutions. Among environmental topics, most ISS ESG-facilitated engagements during Q2 2024 related to net zero, followed by environment norms, biodiversity, and water. Among social topics, most engagement related to human rights norms, followed by gender equality and then labor rights norms. Read more of the analysis, authored by authored by Shweta Shah, Sujay Pan, and Georg Präauer, at: https://lnkd.in/ewswbazg #ESG #Biodiversity #NetZero
ISS ESG Quarterly Engagement Update – Q2 2024: Net Zero Is the Top Priority Topic, with the Launch of the Second Cycle of the Net Zero Thematic Engagement
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Healthcare is moving towards digitization and increasing reliance on information technology tools to provide essential health services. This makes the healthcare sector a prime target for cyber-attacks. Investors may want to ensure portfolio companies tighten their information security management systems and practices to safeguard the protection of personal health data. Download ISS ESG’s Actionable Insights: Top ESG Themes in 2024 - Mid-Year Review to learn more: https://lnkd.in/edP8DJY5 #Healthcare #ESG #CyberSecurity
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Are the issuers in your portfolio on track to reach net zero by 2050? ISS ESG can help you report on your progress and integrate granular insights into your investment analyses in three steps. Stay ahead of the curve by harnessing the broadest and deepest #climate data in the market. Assess your portfolio’s alignment with low-carbon scenarios at: https://lnkd.in/enppeY-X #Sustainability #NetZero #Data
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ESMA Fund Naming Guidelines: A Path Towards Greener Portfolios The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) recently published its final report on guidelines for fund names that use ESG or sustainability-related terms. ESMA aims to protect investors from the risk of greenwashing arising from the use of ESG and sustainability-related terms in the fund names. To achieve this, ESMA has laid down clear criteria for fund managers to ensure that fund names are fair and clear and are not misleading; however, applying these criteria is open to various interpretations. The new guidelines will apply to fund managers domiciled in the EU as well as to external fund managers that market funds in the EU. Furthermore, index-tracking funds will need to ensure that their benchmark methodology aligns with the new ESMA guidelines. ISS ESG plans to launch a dedicated solution to support investors who need to comply with the fund naming guidelines. The new solution will help clients rebalance/reconstruct their fund portfolios in line with the guidelines and meet the reporting obligations for each fund name category. In the meantime, quickly and effectively evaluate & benchmark the ESG performance of equity and bond funds globally using the ISS ESG Fund Rating service. Learn more at: https://lnkd.in/d_W8vxP Read more of the analysis, authored by authored by Ria Modh, Navaneet Desai, Rupali Goyal, and Bharat Juyal, at: https://lnkd.in/e5Pn88za #Europe #ESG #Sustainability
ESMA Fund Naming Guidelines: A Path towards Greener Portfolios
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How Prepared Is the Industrial Sector to Meet the TNFD Value Chain Disclosure Standards? Learn about our analysis on the performance of 31 industrials companies and the expected implications for investors by downloading our new report, Actionable Insights: Top ESG Themes in 2024 - Mid-Year Review. Access the report here: https://lnkd.in/edP8DJY5 #ESG #SupplyChains #Investors
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World Water Week, an annual event during which global water-related challenges and solutions are discussed, is now taking place. #Data is key. More accurate data on freshwater ecosystems is needed to guide interventions to where the need is greatest and improve sustainable water management. Similarly, data is crucial not only for companies' water strategies but also for institutions that need to make informed investment decisions. ISS ESG’s Water Risk Rating enables investors to assess water risks in their portfolios by providing a holistic assessment of a company's overall freshwater-related risks and efforts at mitigation. Our data shows that: 👉 Around 16 percent of 7,800 rated companies have high exposure to freshwater risks that are unaddressed or inadequately managed. 👉 More than 40 percent have a medium risk. 👉 Forty-one percent of companies fall into the negligible or low water risk categories, which is a slight improvement on the data from two years ago. Learn more about ISS ESG’s Water Risk Rating: https://lnkd.in/dVSAYvKx #Water #ESG #Sustainability
Water Risk Rating
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ISS ESG’s Governance QualityScore (GQS) indices are sector-neutral and composed of well-governed and responsible companies as defined under the GQS methodology and based on ISS ESG’s norms-based and controversial weapons research. The series tracks large- and mid-cap companies in the United States, Europe, and Asia-Pacific region. GQS is a data-driven assessment of corporate governance quality across four key categories: board structure, compensation, shareholder rights, and audit and risk oversight. In addition to a holistic assessment of corporate governance, all companies with verified failures to respect established norms on human rights, labor standards, environmental protection, and business malpractice, as well as verified involvement in controversial weapons, are excluded. The charts show the governance performance of the U.S. index based on sample metrics embedded within GQS. As shown, the U.S. GQS index significantly enhances its parent universe’s metrics in board leadership independence, problematic pay practices exposure, and unequal voting structure. The parent universe is Solactive GBS US Large & Mid Cap (SUSLMCP). The index guideline for ISS ESG Governance QualityScore Index Series, is available at: https://lnkd.in/e4J_gheB. Learn more about this index and ISS ESG’s index offering, at: https://lnkd.in/eEFZiCm. #ESG #HumanRights #Climate
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ESG Performance Chartbook: Consumer and Energy, Materials, & Utilities ISS ESG, the sustainable investment arm of ISS STOXX, today released a report on ESG performance within the consumer and energy, materials, & utilities sectors. The purpose of the ESG Performance Chartbook series is to provide the reader with insights into the distribution of ESG performance scores per industry within a sector. The charts are based on the underlying data from ISS ESG’s proprietary ratings methodology and are illustrated using histograms and box & whisker charts. Reviewing ratings distributions allows the reader to appreciate how similar or dissimilar discrete categories are within a particular industry. The discrete categories within this report focus on environmental, social, and governance data and their contribution to an issuer’s overall performance score. They also illustrate the key issues for each industry, which reflect industry-specific materiality mapping. Read more key findings from the report, authored by Jhanavee Sheth, Mirtha Kastrapeli, Lisa Häuser, Emily Helms, PhD, and John Whitehead, at: https://lnkd.in/eymJ5nYz #ESG #Biodiversity #Sustainability
ESG Performance Chartbook: Consumer and Energy, Materials, & Utilities
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🚨New Episode Alert🚨 In this special episode of ESGForeword, ISS ESG’s podcast series designed to deliver a succinct view and forecast on all things ESG across the globe, we look at issues that are explored in ISS ESG’s recently released Actionable Insights: Top ESG Themes in 2024 — Mid-Year Review. Our featured host for this episode, candice coppere, the Global Head of Climate & Nature Innovation Lab at ISS ESG, speaks on the key themes surfaced in this latest report. Listen to the full episode and follow ESGForeword on all major streaming services: 🎙ESGForeword: https://lnkd.in/gkMtiqFJ 🎙Apple: https://lnkd.in/evYt4e6G 🎙Spotify: https://lnkd.in/eX6pnpQP #ESG #Climate #Sustainability
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