Refinitiv ESG scores enhance and replace the former ASSET4 ESG ratings and reflect a new strategic ESG framework.
Get an overview of the content from LSEG's website
More than 450 datatypes/data points are available under the following categories:
| Corporate Governance | Social | Environmental |
| Management | Workforce | Resource use |
| Shareholders | Human rights | Emissions |
| CSR strategy | Community | (Product) Innovation |
| Product responsibility |
In 2019 new Thomson Reuters ESG Scores were added to Datastream. The ESG Scores are calculated and available for all companies and fiscal periods.
ESG scores provide a rounded and comprehensive scoring of a company’s ESG performance, based on the reported information pertaining to the ESG pillars, with the ESG controversies overlay captured from global media sources. The main objective of this score is to discount the ESG performance score based on negative media stories.
For more information look into Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Scores from Refinitiv (April 2020)
From within Datastream Excel add-in, ESG is included as a Datatype option under the Equities category.
If you want to find the companies with ESG data, use the constituent lists from Datastream. It is included in the Excel file.
Open Datastream in Excel the usual way. Click on the Datastream ribbon tab, go to the Utilities group and click Templates.
You now have access to the Eikon Template Library: Choose Categories > Env & Social Governance. Now you choose among 7 ESG Templates.
ESG Custom Scoring Template includes also an industry analysis.
Then you get access to Datastream for Office Tearsheets.
In this example the button ESG ASSET4 - Sector Industry Analysis is ticked:
Workspace is a financial economic data source and analysis tool.
It consists of company and market related data. You can use it to find information on markets, stocks and stock indices, historical financial data, companies, economic information and more.
For an overview of the content look here
ESG overview APP gives a wealth of information including downloadable fact sheets and links to other useful ESG Apps.
Search for ESG in the search box and choose the Environmental, Social and Governance App.
For a detailed analysis of ESG Data at a single company level, use the ESG tab on the company page:
Use the Screener combined with the Data Item Library to identify companies based on specific ESG data variables
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Bloomberg is a global financial markets database providing news, analytics, and real-time pricing for over 5 million securities world-wide plus extensive historical pricing and stock charts.
Bloomberg covers more than 11,000 companies in 102 countries with ESG data and more than 7,500 companies with executive compensation data in 65 countries.
ESG data is fully integrated with all of Bloomberg’s data analysis, such as the Equity Screener (EQS), Portfolio Analytics (PORT), Relative Value (RV) and Excel-based analytical models, including ESG Scorecard and Carbon Risk Valuation Tool.
ESG data with 10+ years of history.
Morningstar Direct contains ESG Scores of mutual funds, among other things.
Inside Morningstar, you can access training videos.
MSCI ESG Direct measures the social, environmental, and governance performance of nearly 9,000 corporations, 8,000 with current ESG scores and reports.
All company, industry and thematic reports can be accessed in PDF format and/or through a data screener, which allows for export to Excel, TAB, or CSV files.
ESG Direct is organized in two main tabs: Companies and Publications.
MSCI is a leading authority on socially conscious investment research.
It includes company rankings on investment involving social issues regarding the environment, gay and lesbian policies, community, charitable giving, corporate governance, diversity, employee relations, human rights issues in specific nations, products, alcohol, firearms, gambling, military involvement, and tobacco.
Coverage is from 1991 and forward.
Note! ESG Data is not part of the CBS Library subscription. The CBS Library subscription includes access to the Private Equity module.
Prequin contains comprehensive global research on the investment industry and covers institutional investors, fund performance, fundraising, deals, fund managers, and fund terms, for all fund types.
ESG Indicators: Preqin’s quantitative scoring for a fund is based on the industry and parent company headquarters of its underlying assets.
BoardEx contains information about public company board members, directors and senior management for companies worldwide.
BoardEx (North America, Europe, United Kingdom and Rest of the World) consists of compensation, employment, and relationship data on publicly listed companies and notable private company boards, board directors and senior managers - from companies around the globe.
BoardEx provides data on e.g. age, gender, educational background, prior employment and the networks of the individuals.
BoardEx is divided into four regions:
BoardEx datasets in WRDS are available as individual level datasets, e.g. Individual Profile and Compensation Analysis data and as company level datasets e.g. Company Organization Summary and Company Profile.
BoardEx contains details on over 20,000 companies with about 70% of them being publicly listed and 30% being private companies.
In total, BoardEx has profiles on over 750,000 individuals and information on over 1 million non-profiled organizations.
The database is updated daily and contains information from 1999 - present.
BoardEx is part of WRDS - Wharton Research Data Services.
Execucomp is part of S&P Global Market Intelligence.
Find top executives' salary, bonus, and stock option data.
The database also has company-specific financial statement information to supplement the compensation data.
Coverage is from 1992 and forward. The database contains over 3.400 companies, both active and inactive. The universe of firms covers the S&P 1500 plus companies that were once part of the 1500 plus companies removed from the index that are still trading, and some client requests. Data collection on the S&P 1500 began in 1994. However, there is data back to 1992 but it is not for the entire S&P 1500 – it is mostly for the S&P 500.
Execucomp is part of WRDS - Wharton Research Data Services.
In Factiva, you can find articles on ESG issues related to companies and business life.
