ESG Impact

AI, ESG Impact • July 27, 2022

Achieving Values Alignment in ESG and Impact Strategies

The ESG and Impact universe has proliferated in recent years. As asset owners increasingly commit to reaching net zero emissions and contributing to the UN Sustainable Development Goals, managers have raced to provide investment products that offer ‘ESG’ or ‘Impact’. In practice, however, these terms are often vaguely defined and ...

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ESG Impact • June 24, 2022 • In Partnership with Additiv

Can Personalized Investment Enable Impact Investing?

How improved ESG reporting software makes values-aligned investment accessible It’s been over 20 years since the founder of Apple, Steve Jobs said “Get closer than ever to your customers. So close that you tell them what they need well before they realize it themselves”, and yet the message is more important than ever before; especi...

ESG Impact, UN SDGs • November 26, 2021

Impact Investing: Measuring What Matters

Underscoring the need for a consistent approach to ESG impact reporting measurement 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...

ESG Impact, UN SDGs • November 25, 2021

Impact Investing and Financial Sectors

Research on impact investing shows 41% of results can be explained by a company’s sector 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 evalu...

ESG Impact • August 25, 2021

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

ESG data emphasizes the urgency to incorporate impact analysis when investing 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...

ESG Impact • August 24, 2021

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

Measuring ESG impact using the World Benchmarking Alliance (WBA) and Clarity AI’s Frameworks 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 phe...

ESG Impact • August 23, 2021

Common Elements Among Impact Investing Frameworks

The three main components of ESG impact measurement 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...

ESG Impact • August 22, 2021

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

Study shows most investors aren’t ready to incorporate ESG impact into their investment strategy 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...

ESG Impact • August 21, 2021

Just How Big Is the Market for Impact Investing?

The Latest ESG Data: Chart shows growth in thematic ESG fund flows 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 m...

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ESG Impact, UN SDGs, Whitepapers • 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."

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Achieving Values Alignment in ESG and Impact Strategies