STOXX Innovate2Invest 2018
Big Data and Advanced Technology for Sustainable Investment
Philipp Aeby, CEO, RepRisk AG London, April 25, 2018 [email protected]
RepRisk AG, Zurich, Switzerland | www.reprisk.com | RepRisk® is a registered trademark. An age of transparency and hyper-connectivity
2 Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) and business conduct risks
Source: www.careeraddict.com/10-companies-that-still-use-child-labor
3 ESG risks materially impact a firm’s social license to operate and its bottom line
Business conduct risks
Environmental Social Governance Pollution, waste, Human rights abuses, Corruption, bribery, climate change labor, discrimination tax evasion, fraud
Compliance risks Reputational risks Financial risks
4 How can businesses navigate the endless stream of open-source intelligence?
5 Daily screening of big data to systematically identify and assess ESG risks
Big data: Daily screening of +80,000 sources and stakeholders
NGOs News sites Research Gov’t firms agencies Newsletters Twitter Think Regulators tanks Blogs Print media
Identify, curate, assess, and quantify
ESG risks
6 Sources in 16 languages supports the early identification of risks
▪ Risks often appear earlier at the local level in local languages ▪ Research in 16 major business languages supports the early identification of risks
Arabic English Italian Portuguese
Chinese Finnish Japanese Russian
Danish French Korean Spanish
Dutch German Norwegian Swedish
7 Narrow Artificial Intelligence enabled and enhanced by Human Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence Human Intelligence Due Diligence Tool
Aggregator Admin RepRisk Platform
500k news Curation and Metrics per day Feedback Classifcation
>>> Daily updates >>>
8 Narrow Artificial Intelligence enabled and enhanced by Human Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence Human Intelligence Due Diligence Tool
AggregatorText extraction, NLP Admin RepRisk Platform Deduplication of sources
Tagging: company, issue, topic tag, 500k news Curation and Metrics per day country, severity,Feedback source Classifcation Relevancy classification
>>> Daily updates >>>
9 Narrow Artificial Intelligence enabled and enhanced by Human Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence Human Intelligence Due Diligence Tool
Aggregator Admin RepRisk Platform
500kUnstructured news ESG Curation and Metrics per day risk data Feedback Classifcation (500k per day)
>>> 10 years of data>>>
10 Narrow Artificial Intelligence enabled and enhanced by Human Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence Human Intelligence Due Diligence Tool
Aggregator Admin RepRisk Platform
Curated data used for 500kUnstructured news ESG Curation and structured Metrics per day risk data Feedback machine Classifcation learning (500k per day) (10-12k per day)
>>> 10 years of data >>>
11 RepRisk runs the world’s most comprehensive database on ESG risks
Global Developed, analysis emerging, frontier
All sectors and +100,000 +25,000 industries companies projects +30-50 per day +10-20 per day
Listed, non-listed, Factories, mines, pipelines, state-owned plantations, dams, ports, etc.
12 RepRisk ESG Risk Platform: Risk Profiles
13 … covering any listed and private company
14 Investment Management Use Cases
1. Compliance and reputational risks ▪ Identify and assess business conduct and ESG issues in violation of internal policies or international standards (norm-based screening) and manage related reputational risks
2. Investment risk and ESG alpha ▪ Leverage metrics and underlying data points for quantitative strategies ▪ Use company profiles for company engagement and active ownership ▪ Consider business conduct and ESG risks in investment decision-making processes (ESG integration)
15 Case study – Norwegian Government Pension Fund: Applies norms-based exclusions
RepRisk Monitoring RepRisk Platform Report Platform
Serves as source Lists companies Further due of research and and incidents diligence using metrics used to associated with RepRisk Platform prepare the high compliance Output and other customized risks, in line with sources on high- Portfolio the Fund’s ethical risk companies Monitoring Report guidelines
Violation of policy In line with policy
16 Stakeholders: ESG as focus area of investors
A company’s ability to manage environmental, social, and governance matters demonstrates the leadership and good governance that is so essential to sustainable growth, which is why we are increasingly integrating these issues into our investment process.
− Larry Fink, Chairman and CEO of BlackRock, in his 2018 annual letter to CEOs “A Sense of Purpose”
17 Research Scope Appendix Our research scope: Comprises 28 ESG Issues in line with key international standards
ENVIRONMENT SOCIAL GOVERNANCE Environmental Footprint Community Relations Employee Relations Corporate Governance Global pollution (Climate Human rights abuses and Forced labor Corruption, bribery, change and GHG emissions) corporate complicity extortion, money laundering Local pollution Impacts on communities Child labor Executive compensation issues Impacts on ecosystems and Local participation issues Freedom of association and Misleading communication landscapes collective bargaining Overuse and wasting of Social discrimination Discrimination in employment Fraud resources Waste issues Occupational health and safety Tax evasion issues Animal mistreatment Poor employment conditions Tax optimization
Anti-competitive practices
Cross-cutting Issues Controversial products and services Products (health and environmental issues) Supply chain issues
Violation of national legislation Violation of international standards Note: The 28 RepRisk ESG Issues map the Ten principles of the UN Global Compact
19 Our research scope: Also covers 45 Topic Tags – ESG “hot topics” that are specific and thematic
Agricultural commodity Abusive/Illegal fishing Alcohol Animal transportation Arctic drilling speculation Automatic and semi- Asbestos Cluster munitions Coal-fired power plants Conflict minerals automatic weapons Depleted uranium Coral reefs Deep sea drilling Diamonds Drones munitions Genetically modified Endangered species Forest burning Fracking Gambling organisms (GMOs) Genocide/Ethnic High conservation Human trafficking Hydropower (dams) Illegal logging cleansing value forests Involuntary Indigenous people Land grabbing Land mines Migrant labor resettlement Mountaintop removal Monocultures Negligence Nuclear power Oil sands mining
Palm oil Pornography Predatory lending Privacy violations Protected areas
Rare earths Sea-bed mining Soy Tobacco Water scarcity
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