Sustainability Community

Hello everyone!
Hope you are getting ready for Easter! I certainly am.

Make sure you check out our events for April and May, we have lots of interesting things plan around sustainability themes and regulatory challenges. Here's where to book your places.

I am planning and researching the theme for our monthly online meetup for June this year. Based on the feedback from many members, our theme will be along the lines of ESG Data Challenges for asset managers and asset owners. Hence, I am keen to speak to portfolio manangers and heads of thematics - it is important to get your take on what would make this meetup useful and practical. We have data companies as members and they will be in attendance themselves. Great chance to sit together and find solutions.

Calling out to portfolio managers members - if you are open to a 15 min chav with me sometime next week or after Easter - I am keen to get your perspective to make sure our online event is super useful! Give me a shout.

Alternatively, feel free to share in this thread what are the top 3 challenges around sustainablity/ESG data that we should be addressing during our meetup?

here's a very interesting "European ESG Data Trends Survey 2024" from Bloomberg too.

Hope to hear from some of you (apariy@cfauk.org)! 

Hello everyone, 

According to what we have seen from our clients experience, the 3 main challenges regarding ESG data management are :

• Matching multiple ESG data sources (providers, public data) with investments : it is time consuming and requires a lot of manual tasks to obtain a high coverage
• Adapting to a fast-moving sustainable environment : regulation are evolving quickly and new indicators have to be followed every year, it is hard to integrate them in the existing data management systems / internal processes
• Ensuring all teams have access to the right information : ESG is now impacting different teams across organisations (investment team, compliance, risk, …) and it is complicated to have consistency in the different KPIs used by the different teams

Are any of you also experiencing these challenges ?

Marion Aubert

Hello everyone!
Hope you are getting ready for Easter! I certainly am.

Make sure you check out our events for April and May, we have lots of interesting things plan around sustainability themes and regulatory challenges. Here's where to book your places.

I am planning and researching the theme for our monthly online meetup for June this year. Based on the feedback from many members, our theme will be along the lines of ESG Data Challenges for asset managers and asset owners. Hence, I am keen to speak to portfolio manangers and heads of thematics - it is important to get your take on what would make this meetup useful and practical. We have data companies as members and they will be in attendance themselves. Great chance to sit together and find solutions.

Calling out to portfolio managers members - if you are open to a 15 min chav with me sometime next week or after Easter - I am keen to get your perspective to make sure our online event is super useful! Give me a shout.

Alternatively, feel free to share in this thread what are the top 3 challenges around sustainablity/ESG data that we should be addressing during our meetup?

here's a very interesting "European ESG Data Trends Survey 2024" from Bloomberg too.

Hope to hear from some of you (apariy@cfauk.org)! 

Hello everyone!
Hope you are getting ready for Easter! I certainly am.

Make sure you check out our events for April and May, we have lots of interesting things plan around sustainability themes and regulatory challenges. Here's where to book your places.

I am planning and researching the theme for our monthly online meetup for June this year. Based on the feedback from many members, our theme will be along the lines of ESG Data Challenges for asset managers and asset owners. Hence, I am keen to speak to portfolio manangers and heads of thematics - it is important to get your take on what would make this meetup useful and practical. We have data companies as members and they will be in attendance themselves. Great chance to sit together and find solutions.

Calling out to portfolio managers members - if you are open to a 15 min chav with me sometime next week or after Easter - I am keen to get your perspective to make sure our online event is super useful! Give me a shout.

Alternatively, feel free to share in this thread what are the top 3 challenges around sustainablity/ESG data that we should be addressing during our meetup?

here's a very interesting "European ESG Data Trends Survey 2024" from Bloomberg too.

Hope to hear from some of you (apariy@cfauk.org)! 

Thank you for addressing such a crucial topic. Looking forward to our upcoming June meetup focused on ESG data challenges.

I'd like to mention another painful topic, which is physical risk data, encompassing data on chronic and acute events.

Under CSRD regulations many financial services firms will have to quantitatively evaluate the vulnerability of their assets to physical risks. In order to help firms with this task, we are currently trying to re-use models deployed by insurers to predict losses for catastrophic bonds. However, the insurance industry has traditionally focused on modeling losses associated with so called primary perils, e.g. earthquakes. Losses from secondary perils such as floods, wildfire or storms have not been widely modeled, and, therefore, cat bonds models do not capture the losses from such acute events well. One of the problems in modeling secondary perils is a lack of historical data.

It would be great to learn if any of our community members are facing with similar problems, and share their insights on how they assess the exposure of their assets to physical risk. Are you utilizing open-source models, or are you developing proprietary ones internally?

Hello everyone!
Hope you are getting ready for Easter! I certainly am.

Make sure you check out our events for April and May, we have lots of interesting things plan around sustainability themes and regulatory challenges. Here's where to book your places.

I am planning and researching the theme for our monthly online meetup for June this year. Based on the feedback from many members, our theme will be along the lines of ESG Data Challenges for asset managers and asset owners. Hence, I am keen to speak to portfolio manangers and heads of thematics - it is important to get your take on what would make this meetup useful and practical. We have data companies as members and they will be in attendance themselves. Great chance to sit together and find solutions.

Calling out to portfolio managers members - if you are open to a 15 min chav with me sometime next week or after Easter - I am keen to get your perspective to make sure our online event is super useful! Give me a shout.

Alternatively, feel free to share in this thread what are the top 3 challenges around sustainablity/ESG data that we should be addressing during our meetup?

here's a very interesting "European ESG Data Trends Survey 2024" from Bloomberg too.

Hope to hear from some of you (apariy@cfauk.org)!