McKinsey Quarterly cites: “More than 2,000 academic studies have examined the impact of environmental, social, and governance propositions on equity returns, and 63 percent of them found positive results (versus only 8 percent that were negative).”

Timely ESG data can help mitigate risk. Wirecard AG’s insolvency was foreshadowed by timely ESG data, underscoring the importance of ESG data for all investors.

Veriti In the News: Institutional Investor quotes Dennis Hammond piece: “A passive 60/40 portfolio of stocks and bonds earned 9.3 percent, according to statistics from Dennis Hammond that Ennis cited in his study. The 60/40 triumphant in four of the five decades that Hammond looked at.”

Your portfolio says it all. Clearly and undeniably. In black and white. And in dollars and cents.

Responsible investing is the practice today of replacing agnostic stock indices with one or more responsibly-built stock portfolios which closely track a given benchmark. Responsible portfolios are readily constructed by screening out bad corporate actors…

Investors, like many consumers today, are deciding now is the time to eschew profits from goods and services based on these materialistic practices and products. There is a problem inherent in making these judgements…

As a specialist in socially responsible investing (SRI), Veriti believed that self-reported corporate data at infrequent intervals did not provide a complete picture of responsible behavior. The firm needed a means of collecting objective, up-to-date data to augment its research.