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Innovation In Pursuit of High-Quality ESG Data
Erik Weisman, Chief Economist and Fixed Income Portfolio Manager
MFS Investment Management
Data – good data, accurate data, consistent data – is the key to unlocking the potential of sustainable investing. The lack of quality data is routinely identified as the biggest hurdle to be cleared if wider adoption of ESG-related investment strategies is going to occur. In the quest for improved data, the bar is set fairly high – after all, investment professionals around the world have access to all sorts of high-quality data they use in their decision-making process. When might ESG data be as timely and accurate as the data that powers today’s markets? That’s just one of the questions in this Fireside Chat with Matthew Sekol, Industry Executive, Capital Markets, at Microsoft – where, not surprisingly, the pursuit of solutions to the ESG data quandary is a priority.
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