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The Sustainable Development Investments Asset Owner Platform (SDI AOP) helps investors assess companies’ contributions to sustainability themes using the UN Sustainable Development Goals. The asset owner-led effort provides a robust SDG-alignment framework and data, and is already used worldwide by investors for implementation and tracking of sustainability strategies, and engagement with multiple stakeholders.

The Sustainable Development Investments Asset Owner Platform (SDI AOP) and Qontigo, its exclusive distribution partner, have announced the launch of the SDI Innovation Outlook. The new dataset provides forward looking information, by analyzing the alignment of companies’ patent portfolios with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

Qontigo, a leading provider of innovative risk, analytics, and index solutions, has partnered with Ortec Finance, a leading global provider of technology and solutions for risk and return management, to provide climate stress testing capabilities within Qontigo’s Axioma Risk for clients to assess climate risks in their portfolio.

In this paper, our goal is to show how sustainability ETF exposures to a number of sustainability-related factors may vary. It is eminently clear to us that investors with a view about key sustainability features cannot rely on the fund name, but instead need to do more digging into whether their fund meets the required criteria.

At the Sustainable Investment Forum North America 2022, Saumya Mehrotra, Associate Principal, Sustainable Investment shares how the combination of our open ESG data and architecture, index platform and analytic capabilities enable our clients on their journey to full sustainability integration.

The Sustainable Development Investments Asset Owner Platform (SDI AOP) helps investors assess companies’ contributions to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. With the latest enhancement to its dataset, investors can also imbed information around products and services that have a negative impact.

The SDI AOP and Qontigo have announced significant enhancements to the SDI AOP dataset as part of the August 2022 data release. The data analyzes corporate alignment with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

The ROOF methodology can capture the ‘sentiment’ of a portfolio relative to its benchmark. We run ROOF scores to determine the risk appetite of investors holding four portfolios aligned with respective Sustainable Development Goals.

Courtney Scharff, Qontigo’s Global Head of Strategic Partnerships recently spoke with RepRisk’s CEO, Dr. Philipp Aeby to discuss the partnership. The conversation touched on how RepRisk differentiates its ESG data offerings through full transparency, the challenges of creating ESG data and how asset managers should think about ESG.

In a recent three-minute interview conducted at the Sustainable Investment Forum Europe, Kaylash Patel speaks about the role external sustainability data plays in the portfolio construction process.

Many investors want to incorporate Sustainable Development Goals in their portfolios. This blog shows that it is possible to create a portfolio that significantly improves the exposure to SDGs without taking on too much active risk.

This paper focuses on creating SDG portfolios that maximize exposure to one, two or all SDGs. The study shows that it is quite possible to create a portfolio that significantly improves the exposure to SDGs without taking on too much active risk. An optimizer can help manage that active risk.