ESG Impact

ESG Impact, UN SDGs • November 26, 2021

Impact Investing: Measuring What Matters

The measurement of Impact investing currently has many dialects but no lingua franca. The Global Impact Investment Network (GIIN) defines impact investments as “investments made with the intention to generate positive, measurable social and environmental impact alongside a financial return.” While this definition provides a theoretica...

ESG Impact, UN SDGs • November 25, 2021

Impact Investing and Financial Sectors

Clarity AI has a holistic approach to societal impact when aggregating all the different dimensions of impact for the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). What companies have the greatest levels of impact when all different impacts are evaluated and compared, and what is the source of that impact? Ultimately, it is the job of investor...

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ESG Impact, UN SDGs • November 1, 2021

Quantifying Corporate Societal Impact Using United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals

Access the second in a series of Clarity AI and Qontigo research papers focusing on how the SDGs framework can be used to produce estimates of companies’ impact.

ESG Impact • August 25, 2021

Impact Investing as a Tool to Address Climate Change and Wealth Inequality

Despite significant regulatory evolution and increase in financial flows as indicated by the growth in assets, many of the critical environmental and social challenges facing the world have become even more acute and have led to systemic risks emerging. The most mainstream sustainable investment (SI) practice of ESG (environmental, social...

ESG Impact • August 24, 2021

Choose an Impact Framework that Bridges the Gap Between Theory and Practice

Many investors choose to start their impact measurements by evaluating company level impact, but that often fails to measure the magnitude of the impact likely to be driven by the company and considers all SDGs as equal. In light of this phenomena we found that the framework provided by the World Benchmarking Alliance (WBA) and […]

ESG Impact • August 23, 2021

Common Elements Among Impact Investing Frameworks

There are three widely referenced frameworks (see table below) to derive a baseline of the impact components. The second column in the figure summarizes the frameworks’ descriptions of the key defining features of impact investments, while the third column lists the mechanisms by which investors can create impact through investment proc...

ESG Impact • August 22, 2021

Impact Investing is Highly Appealing, But Are Investors Ready to Incorporate It into Their Portfolios?

As we discussed in our article, Highlighting Consistency Across Impact Investing Frameworks, we established that intentionality, additionality, and inclusivity are the baseline for a sound impact investment approach, but it’s vital to look at how real-world investor approaches are currently embedding these components in their produc...

ESG Impact • August 21, 2021

Just How Big Is the Market for Impact Investing?

Although a widely accepted definition of impact investing has emerged from the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN), there are still many measurement frameworks. In line with this divergence in understanding and measuring impact investing, there is currently no perfect methodology for determining the size of the Sustainable Investment (...

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ESG Impact, UN SDGs • August 1, 2021

On the Way to Impact Investment: Mind the Gap between Theory and Practice

Clarity AI collaborated with Qontigo to deep dive into the theory and practice of impact investment, define the gaps and propose the reconciliation methods between the two.

ESG Impact • October 25, 2018

What Banking and Phone Data Tell us about the Socioeconomic Groups and Their Consumption Patterns?

Clarity AI's published paper on "What Banking and Phone Data Tell us about the Socioeconomic Groups and Their Consumption Patterns?" demonstrates the feasibility and capabilities of Big Data sources to understand the consumption behaviour of the population, overcoming some of the limitations of traditional approaches in terms of coverage ...

ESG Impact • August 1, 2018

The New Physics of Financial Services

Understanding how artificial intelligence is transforming the financial ecosystem: "Clarity AI quantitatively tracks the social responsibility of firms, which can be used by fund managers to optimize socially responsible portfolios."