Document summary
Investors could benefit from more objective and quantitative approaches to ESG analysis. This first in a series of reports applies Quant SRI & Sustainability analysis across the Global Research coverage. 21 broad ESG themes having long shelf-life issues influencing long-term financial risk and performance are indentified. These themes are built upon 126 macro indicators using publicly disclosed data from international organisations, using these 205 countries are scored and ranked, then matched against geographic breakdown of company sales/assets. This allows the screening and correlation of relationships between sales exposure and the country risk for c.2,700 stocks in the Global Research coverage.