ISS STOXX - ESG Raw Data
Data category
- Environmental data
- Governance data
- Social data
- Verification/Certification/External opinion
The data offers solutions for:
- Environmental impact analysis and insight
- Investment decisions and portfolio insight
- Nature-based information
- Nature-based information: Biodiversity
- Nature-based information: Land use
- Nature-based information: Water
- Norms-based screening
- Reporting: CSRD
- Reporting: ISSB standards
- Reporting: Impact
- Reporting: Other Regulations
- Reporting: SEC climate
- Reporting: SFDR
- Reporting: TCFD
- Reporting: TNFD
- Social impact analysis and insight
- Transition plan assessments
Who are the data users?
- Corporates
- Financial institutions
- Government
- Investors
- Trustees
Brief description of the data offering
ISS STOXX offers a comprehensive set of environmental, social, and governance data points with no additional assessment or scoring overlay, enabling investors to:
- Develop customized models to inform sustainable investment decisions
- Directly compare company performance and disclosures
- Gain detailed insight into company risk across all ESG dimensions
- Track the sustainability criteria and trends most pivotal to their investment strategies
The data set comprises over 950 data factors and includes associated source factors. Topics covered include:
- 300+ Environmental data factors covering Climate Change
Environmental Risks and Opportunities
Natural Resources
Waste and Pollution - 450+ Social data factors covering Business Ethics
Labor, Health, and Safety
Stakeholders and Society
Workplace Diversity and Inclusion - 200+ Governance Raw Data, including: Board Level Statistics and Committee Memberships
Incentive Metrics and Goals for Performance-Based Pay
Director and Executive Diversity
Transparency and Disclosure
Where and how do you source your data?
Data is primarily sourced from publicly available information, including a company’s own disclosure, proxy statements, reputable news, governmental and international institutions, recognised international or local non-governmental organizations, and non-biased subscription databases.
Director data and Compensation data are driven by publicly disclosed filings and annual reports to ensure consistency.
Voting Analytics Data is primarily sourced from publicly available information, including public filings, press releases, and company websites. Mutual fund voting records are sourced from the SEC's N-PX filings (for US mutual funds) and other public sources (for non-US funds).
What is the cost for your data offering?
Pricing for this solution is available upon request.
What are the key attributes that differentiate the data you offer?
E&S Raw Data
- Transparent and high-quality data. Each individual data point is rigorously validated by our expert analysts and – where applicable – labelled with detailed information on its source.
- Holistic insight into corporate risk. The E&S Raw Data set offers a 360° view of company disclosures and corporate risk profile based on three decades of expertise across the E and S domains.
- Clients can complement their ratings assessments on climate, human rights, the UN SDGs and other relevant areas with ESG Raw Data.
Unique data sets within the raw data offering include:
Director Data
- By examining the director profile for key experiences, you can determine if directors possess the necessary qualifications for a given company to uncover potential risks and opportunities in your portfolio.
- Data can also be used as signals of possible management changes or considerations for events, such as a boardroom turnover.
Executive Compensation
- Executive Compensation Analytics allows investors, as well as ESG and governance professionals, to analyze executive compensation plan design, better understand executives’ incentives & decision making, examine the link between pay and performance, uncover problematic pay practices, and more.
Voting Analytics
- Over 15 years of shareholder vote results data from Annual General Meetings
- Convenient and efficient solution for gathering and tracking meeting results.
- Historical meeting results available for select markets, including the United States, Australia, United Kingdom, and Canada
- Meeting results captured in critical client and internal proxy reports.
- Ability to perform trend analysis of voting decisions and policy recommendations with actual vote outcomes.
- Meeting results information applicable to regular proxy policy reviews and formulation processes.
- Integration of meeting results into daily voting workflow
Most recent significant update:
Q4 2024
- ExecComp Profile Reports enhancement
Expanded coverage for unique Executive Compensation Profile Reports from US-only to US, Canada, Australia and Europe. Data includes ISS Pay for Performance Assessments, Incentive Metrics and Compensation Details.
Planned future enhancements:
Areas of focus for 2025 include:
- Voting Analytics: Complement existing mutual fund vote records with institution-level data following new SEC regulations
- Executive Compensation Analytics: Improve European compensation data collection with the addition of value at grant date to complement existing realized pay data
What trends are you seeing in terms of customer demand?
The trend of increasing interest for raw ESG data stems from two developments: Some investors want to take ratings and scores apart to understand drivers but also to create unique methodologies, others are shifting away from catch-all ESG scores and ratings and take a more selective approach focusing on specific themes, such as modern slavery, cyber security, physical risks, director compensation, sanctions, etc. The ISS STOXX raw data offering allows clients here to pick topics that are seen as material to investments, also by investors without an explicit ESG commitment.
Contacts
Till Jung
Global Head of Sustainability Business, ISS STOXX
[email protected]
+49.89.46.2248162
