Keeping your finger on the pulse is one of the most important aspects of responsible investment. You need to stay ahead of changes in regulations in order to enhance transparency, improve decision-making, and ensure alignment with sustainability goals.
This is where GaiaLens can help. The latest AI-powered ESG solution for asset owners has been designed specifically to speed up processes and enhance accuracy.
What Are The ESG Challenges for Asset Owners?
If you’re an asset owner, particularly for responsible investments such as pension funds or charitable foundations, you run the risk of receiving sustainability reports from asset managers that can be outdated or lack the depth needed to inform key decisions.
On top of this, tracking the ESG performance of underlying investments across multiple portfolios can be challenging. Emerging controversies — such as violations of business ethics or environmental standards — can take you by surprise, leaving you scrambling to react.
GaiaLens’ latest ESG solution is designed to change that by simplifying complex ESG data and providing real-time updates for proactive analysis. It provides timely updates on controversies, allowing you to respond more quickly and effectively.
Subscribe to free controversy alerts for S&P 500 companies today, and start receiving daily emails and updates.
Proactive ESG Monitoring and Analysis
One of the key features of our platform is its ability to offer a comprehensive view of sustainability performance across all investments. By aggregating data at the allocation level, it allows you to monitor whether portfolios are meeting ESG benchmarks, at a glance — providing insights that were previously only accessible to the world’s largest asset owners.
With these tools, investment strategies become more informed, helping you align investments with sustainability objectives.
Tracking Sustainability Themes That Matter
Our ESG solution also offers thematic screens, allowing you to track topics such as modern slavery, climate transition, and business ethics. By using both structured (reported) and unstructured (news) data, the platform enables you to monitor the ESG issues that matter most and assess how your portfolios are performing on these key themes.
Any emerging controversies are flagged in real-time, providing an early warning system, and allowing you to be more proactive. This transparency is crucial in an era where greenwashing remains a concern.
Fighting Greenwashing with 360-Degree Insights
Greenwashing — where companies or funds misleadingly portray themselves as environmentally responsible — continues to be a pressing issue in the ESG space.
According to MainStreet Partners 2024 ESG Barometer reports, a quarter of all Article 8 funds could be accused of greenwashing, based on sustainability frameworks and practices.
The 24% of funds at risk of greenwashing marks a 4% increase from the 20% of funds at risk, flagged at the end of 2022.
Our ESG solutions tackle this head-on by combining the Fund Benchmarking and Controversy Detection capabilities. This provides a 360-degree assessment of any potential greenwashing risks associated with a fund, allowing you to make better-informed decisions and avoid falling prey to misleading ESG claims.
Empowering Asset Owners for the Future
As GaiaLens’ CEO and Co-Founder, Gordon Tveito-Duncan, explains: “Having listened closely to the needs of asset owners, we’re confident that our solution lies at the heart of the conversations they are having regarding ESG, whether it’s supporting allocation level analyses, communicating impact to stakeholders, or performing greenwashing risk assessments. We are proud to have developed a robust AI-powered solution that can empower asset owners to be more proactive with their managers when it comes to their responsible investment goals.”
By providing advanced tools to assess and manage investments, GaiaLens is helping to ensure that sustainability stays at the forefront of decision-making.
Whether you're focused on monitoring specific sustainability themes or mitigating greenwashing risk, GaiaLens’ new platform offers a state-of-the-art solution to meet these needs and more. Sign up today and discover how we can help.
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