Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance - ESG

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Global Coverage

Thomson Reuters provides ESG data on over 5,000 listed companies including many of the primary, global and some regional indices like MSCI World, MSCI Europe, STOXX 600, NASDAQ 100, Russell 1000, S&P 500, FTSE 100, ASX 300 and MSCI Emerging Market.
In addition, Thomson Reuters offers takeover defense profiles on 10,000+ public companies with nearly 12,000 Poison Pill “Events”.

Depth and History

Thomson Reuters has in-depth coverage across 400+ ESG data points and 100+ ESG analytics back to 2002. We also provide 17+ years of history on over 1.8 million officers and director for over 80,000 public companies and over 1.1 million officers and directors for 135,000 private companies.

Timeliness and Quality

Our processes are designed to ensure the highest data quality levels with stringent quality control and methodology. Every company update goes through different levels of manual validations. In parallel, all data goes through automatic checks – looking for logical relationships between the data points, consistency across years and expected ranges of the quantitative data.

Standardized and As Reported Data

Thomson Reuters offers standardized and comparable ESG data thus solving one of the greatest challenges in using this information. Our data analysts capture the data as reported by the companies together with the link back to source and then standardize the values in common units across all companies. Full detailed transparency is provided by detailed information links to each data point.

Value Add Across Workflows

Professional investors use ESG data to define a wide range of responsible investment strategies and integrate it into their traditional investment analysis. Corporate executives (e.g. CSR and IR managers) use the content to benchmark their own performance against peers and track relevant news. Quantitative analysts use the ESG data within the Quantitative Analytics solution to identify a new range of signals. Issues such as climate change, executive remuneration and employee rights are becoming as important as traditional metrics for companies and investors, that is why having access to an objective and comparable database and analysis tools is so important.

Professional investors can:

• Implement a full range of responsible investment strategies, including negative screening, best-in-class analysis, compliance and risk monitoring, engagement and integration.
• Drive down research costs by delivering systematic, verified and integrated information.
• Increase revenue by enhancing investment research capabilities and empowering new, innovative financial products incorporating ESG aspects

Corporate Services Executives can:

• Reduce risk by tracking, managing and benchmarking of ESG policies and practices.
• Enhance corporate governance with access to objective and transparent information.
• Stay current on industry changes or issues by monitoring ESG-related news.
• Expand accountability, transparency and trust to increase liquidity and achieve a fair share price.

Thomson Reuters Corporate Responsibility Indices (TRCRI)

Track the performance of companies with superior ratings for environmental, social and governance practices.
Developed jointly with S-Network Global Indexes, and leveraging the Thomson Reuters ESG database, the Thomson Reuters Corporate Responsibility Indices (TRCRI) offer an objective and transparent, rules-based benchmarking solution for measuring ESG performance.

Unlike the majority of ESG indices, the indices mirror the performance of major global benchmarks via companies that have substantially higher than average ESG ratings.

The indices represent a comprehensive benchmarking system for CSR investors. The full transparency of both index and associated ratings methodologies, together with broad-based distribution of index data, make the indices understandable and accessible to all types of users.

ESG Metrics Covering all Sustainability Themes