Bringing greater clarity to measuring ESG-related risks
As more and more investors look to integrate ESG considerations into their investment portfolios, one of the growing challenges they face is the subjectivity that exists in assessing how a company is managing their ESG-related risks and how those risks may impact its operating performance.
To address this growing industry challenge, we have recently launched a proprietary measurement that assesses publicly traded companies in the context of financially relevant ESG criteria that could impact their operating performance.
To explore the Northern Trust ESG Vector Score in-depth, download the detailed brief.
For Asia Pacific and EMEA Markets, this information is directed to institutional, professional and wholesale clients or investors only and should not be relied upon by retain clients or investors.
At Northern Trust Asset Management (“NTAM”), we define Sustainable Investing as encompassing all of NTAM’s investment strategies and accounts that utilize values based and norms based screens, best-in-class and ESG integration, or thematic investing that may focus on a specific ESG issue such as climate risk. NTAM’s Sustainable Investing includes portfolios designed by NTAM as well as those portfolios managed to client-defined methodologies or screens. As the data, analytical models and aforementioned portfolio construction tools available in the marketplace have evolved over time, so too has NTAM. NTAM’s Sustainable Investing encompasses strategies and client assets managed in accordance with client specified responsible investing terms (historically referred to as Socially Responsible), as well as portfolios that leverage contemporary approaches and datasets, including ESG analytics and ESG thematic investing.
