Assessing data and disclosure challenges in ESG investing

Marie Lehmann and Beate van Loo-Born

This chapter focusses on the role data management plays in ESG investment decision-making. Naturally, data sits at the source of the investment community’s decision-making processes, not only when it comes to risk versus return predictions and the constant search for alpha, but also when and where decisions are being made to integrate ESG into investment decision-making.

For instance, investment management companies invest in bonds issued by companies and governments that wish to finance their environmental and social projects. Meanwhile, global assets under management also continue to grow. The AUMs of the world’s largest 500 asset managers have reached US$119.5 trillion (Willis Towers Watson, 2017).

Moreover, in its 2020 Global Sustainable Investment Review (2020), the GSIA found that sustainable investment assets in the five major markets on which its study focused (Australasia, Canada, Europe, Japan and the US) had witnessed a 15% increase within two years, reaching US$35.3 trillion as at the beginning of 2020, equal to 36% of all professionally managed assets across the regions covered in this report. Global interest in ESG investing from institutional investors has

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