Robeco shares sustainable investment IP to drive industry collaboration on data

Sustainable Investing Open Access Initiative

Robeco is sharing its sustainable investment data with industry participants and academics in a push to streamline transparency and ESG standards.

The asset manager's Sustainable Investing Open Access Initiative will provide a group of clients and academics access to its portal of investee company SDG scores, generated using its proprietary framework. Robeco's framework quantifies an investible company's contribution to the SDGs and is a method used for many of its client portfolios. The framework assesses positive and negative SDG contributions within a portfolio and investigates the extent to which businesses positively or negatively impact each of the SDGs. For years, data quality has been cited as one of the biggest chall...