Integrating ESG to enhance quantitative-style investment analysisBY RACHEL ALEMBAKIS | FRIDAY, 10 JUN 2011 6:47AMAs investors continue to realise that the way companies manage their environmental, social and governance inputs reflect potential risk as well as potential opportunity, ESG factors are being incorporated into traditional quantitative and qualitative financial analytics to create an integrated framework of analysis that can provide powerful tools for mitigating investment risk and generating return. Related News |
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