Northern Trust reports that it has enhanced its analytical capabilities to provide pension funds and other global institutional investors with heightened insights and transparency over their environmental, social and governance (ESG) risk exposures.

It says the ESG Analytics Summary provides investors with periodic snapshot analysis across their equity and corporate bond portfolios – setting out investment ‘scores' against a range of ESG factors, United Nation's (UN) Global Compact principles and business activity flags.

Northern Trust says this detailed analysis enables investors to track changes in a fund's ESG profile over time, compare results on an absolute and relative basis, and compare asset managers' scores against each other. These insights are generated by combining its global custody asset information with data provided in partnership with information services provider IdealRatings.

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Northern Trust reports that it has enhanced its analytical capabilities to provide pension funds and other global institutional investors with heightened insights and transparency over their environmental, social and governance (ESG) risk exposures.

It says the ESG Analytics Summary provides investors with periodic snapshot analysis across their equity and corporate bond portfolios – setting out investment ‘scores' against a range of ESG factors, United Nation's (UN) Global Compact principles and business activity flags.

Northern Trust says this detailed analysis enables investors to track changes in a fund's ESG profile over time, compare results on an absolute and relative basis, and compare asset managers' scores against each other. These insights are generated by combining its global custody asset information with data provided in partnership with information services provider IdealRatings.