ISS ESG, the sustainable investment arm of index provider ISS STOXX, has introduced a new Biodiversity Fund Screening dataset, enhancing its ESG Fund Rating thematic coverage. The expansion, launched alongside new fund-of-funds coverage, sees new biodiversity factors added to further differentiate the firm’s offering in the market, providing a wider range of themes and data factors. ISS ESG fund-rating and fund-screening solutions support investors in evaluating the environmental, social and governance performance of equity and bond funds globally, in line with key ESG risk and performance metrics. This enables investors to identify funds that meet clients’ ESG preferences, and screen funds that outperform against specific ESG characteristics such as climate or biodiversity. In January, ISS ESG enhanced its Biodiversity Impact Assessment Tool. “ISS ESG has applied its ESG research and data management expertise to enhance its ESG Fund Rating thematic coverage, developing a broad and deep dataset to help support a wide range of investor use cases,” said Till Jung, Head of ESG Business at ISS STOXX. “This is especially important with the introduction of ESG regulations in several jurisdictions to standardise disclosures and combat greenwashing.”
