FTF FOCUS: ESG News Roundup

Investments based upon environmental, social and governance (ESG) goals were never going to be easy and noncontroversial. The ESG push among investors is experiencing major cultural and political ripples and backlashes. Far from those arenas are Ops staffs, performance measurement teams, and client reporting groups that have to meet investors’ demands for integrating ESG data, ESG reporting, and ESG systems implementation. This is a more nuts-and-bolts struggle. How do these teams find and manage unstructured ESG data that has to be vetted, analyzed, and integrated with conventional investment data? What are the standards for ESG-based investments? Which industry groups and providers are onboard with the concept? Through our coverage, illustrated in this supplement, FTF News attempts to provide in-depth reporting upon the ESG phenomenon and its aftermath.