HIP Investor - Climate GHG Impact ESG: Municipal Bond Data, Metrics and Ratings
Data category
- Environmental data
- Governance data
- Indices/Exchange data
- Rankings
- Ratings
- Research data
- Social data
The data offers solutions for:
- Carbon footprinting
- Climate scenario analysis
- Environmental impact analysis and insight
- Fund ratings
- Geospatial/location data
- Investment decisions and portfolio insight
- Nature-based information
- Nature-based information: Water
- Norms-based screening
- Physical risk
- Reporting: CSRD
- Reporting: EU Regulations
- Reporting: ISSB standards
- Reporting: Impact
- Reporting: Other Regulations
- Reporting: SEC climate
- Reporting: SFDR
- Reporting: TCFD
- Reporting: TNFD
- Reporting: UN SDGs
- Social impact analysis and insight
- Temperature alignment
- Transition plan assessments
- Transition risk
- Value at risk
Who are the data users?
- Corporates
- Financial institutions
- Government
- Investors
- Trustees
What asset class does the data cover?
- Credit/loans
- Fixed income
- Forestry
- Real assets
- Real estate
Brief description of the data offering
HIP Investor offers climate, impact and ESG ratings, metrics, pillars and data on more than 275,000 issuances across 141,000 municipal issuers and impact entities, covering over 18,000 school districts, 6,100 universities and communities colleges, 1,700 Electric Utilities, 32,000 Cities and Places, 3,100 Counties, all 50 states, 4,900 hospitals, 14,700 CCRCs and skilled nursing facilities, 3,700 housing agencies, 2,300 transit agencies, 460 road authorities, 52,600 water utilities, and 216 sovereign countries. HIP data can typically be mapped to 90-95% of most indexes and their constituents. HIP also provides Municipal ESG Ratings, Pillars, and metrics, along with Climate Data, SDG Ratings, and Opportunity Zone Mapping. HIP offers ratings and metrics on over 15,000 corporations globally. HIP provides EU and SFDR regulation data support, issuer second party opinions, and municipal climate action funding guidance.
Reduced Risk
HIP Municipal ESG Ratings are considered a measure of risk. Not only have we seen defaults in municipalities with historically low impact ratings, but HIP Investor clients have reported tighter spreads and lower price volatility for impact entities with ratings above 50%.
HIP Ratings & Metrics are refreshed and enhanced with the best available data. When new data sources become available, HIP will amend its scorecards and build out analysis to best capture social and environmental impact.
When a municipal agency is not fulfilling its stated mission, it is likely to be at a higher risk of mismanagement or default. When a hospital has poor patient outcomes or a University has low graduation rates, it may not attract future patients or students (revenue). And when an energy utility is not preparing for a low-carbon future, long-term solvency could be questioned.
Product Offerings
In addition to these data and ratings products offered by HIP Investor, we have maps available to map HIP's framework to other popular frameworks, such as the UN SDGs.
- Impact Entity Ratings
- Weekly Primary / New Issuance Ratings
- Batch Secondary Market Issuance Ratings
- Pillar & Metric Ratings
- Comprehensive Data
Where and how do you source your data?
The data used to generate HIP Ratings is collected through publicly available resources, as well as through non-public subscription databases. To be considered for inclusion in a sector's scorecard, a data source must meet the following three requirements:
- Values must be a quantitative metric of an issuer's impact on people, planet, or trust.
- There must be a direct relationship between the data point and the future risk potential of a bond issuer at any point across the full duration of the bond.
- Data set must deliver significant coverage across the peer universe, providing a performance range and appropriate context for data verification and comparison.
In sourcing data, HIP strives to acquire the most quantitative, comparable, and comprehensive metrics according to these criteria that apply to each given sector.
HIP sources data from dozens of sources, including:
- Issuers and obligors of muni bonds
- Government databases
- Non-profit datasets
- For-profit databases
- Academic research
HIP sources, cleans, quality-checks, and tests the distributions of the results. As HIP produces, publishes, and licenses Ratings, our analysts are very attentive to quality, accuracy, and analytical rigor.
What is the cost for your data offering?
Prices for Municipal HIP Ratings start at $5,000 per month, covering 141,000 municipal entities; additional fees for HIP Pillars and HIP Metrics. HIP Structured Data starts at $10,000 per month, covering 5 million data points annually. Special pricing for SDGs, Climate, and Opportunity Zone datapoints.
Contacts
Nick Gower
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HIP Investor Inc.
Direct: +1 (864)420-4210
www.HIPinvestor.com