ESG and Sustainability Reporting
Simplify how you are asking for ESG data, make it easy to provide, consolidate into a single format so that you can quickly and easily meet regulatory requirements
Simplify how you are asking for ESG data, make it easy to provide, consolidate into a single format so that you can quickly and easily meet regulatory requirements
Gather 360 is an easy-to-implement SaaS tool, that solves one of the most urgent data problems facing asset managers today – the need for easily-accessed, high quality, validated and standardized data for ESG, ethical and sustainability reporting.
Whilst ESG has been mainstream for the last decade, investor appetite in the 2020s is taking greater account of sustainable value, with ESG being viewed as a key contributor to financial performance and long-term value. For many, ESG offers the chance to raise the moral purpose of investing, to deliver the sustainable economic development of shareholders, stakeholders and the planet.
For asset managers ESG provides a chance to reach new investors, to develop new revenue streams, to bid for institutional pools of money from charities and public sector pension funds. Then there are the many millennials who have just entered the workforce and are beginning to invest for the first time. ESG funds are a means to connect with this fast-growing market.
With these opportunities come challenges. ESG ratings and benchmarks have experienced a rapid expansion, and with this an extraordinary degree of fragmentation. The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) eports that there are over 2,000 individual ESG reporting indicators requested by the approximately 600 ratings and benchmarks.
On top of the fragmentation issue there is the question of definitions. Without a consistent definition of what ESG ratings are supposed to measure or even a consistent view of what constitutes a relevant ESG issue, it is obviously difficult to gauge their effectiveness. Even the UN PRI has yet to provide a definition.
When reporting goalposts move frequently and at speed, when investors demand accurate, validated, real-time ESG data, asset managers need to have full understanding and control of their data; to be able to access data from multiple sources in a timely way; to demonstrate accuracy and provenance; to have a data gathering & management process that is underpinned by good data governance; and accompanied by a full audit trail.
Gather 360 enables asset managers to:
Unlike most data tools, gather 360 is designed for business users, not the IT team. It's easy to configure & deploy via a web-portal and comes with a bespoke dashboard. Gather 360 is secure. It’s hosted on Azure cloud, but it can also reside within the businesses’ infrastructure.