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ESG GPS™ Ratings

The Risk Insights team has over 100 years of combined experience and expertise in financial markets, risk management, and data science. We have the continent's first machine learning and AI ESG sustainability rating tool - ESG GPS. ESG GPS has rated all listed companies on the following stock exchanges: Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE), Nigerian Exchange Group (NGX), Nairobi Stock Exchange (NSE), Botswana Stock Exchange (BSE), The Stock Exchange of Mauritius (SEM). The uniqueness of the ESG GPS: Sector-specific materiality factors, Peer group comparison, Country Regulations, Rates entire stock exchange mid/large/small, Independent ratings based on mandatory and voluntary disclosure, Context analysis considering stakeholder perception based on news feeds. ESG GPS ratings are useful to: Impact investors, Debt holders, Capital markets, Proxy advisors, Rating agencies, Shareholders, Exchange-traded funds, and Millennials. ESG GPS provides Classic reports, Comprehensive reports, Disclosure scores, News feed lists, Rating watch alerts, Sector information. ESG GPS considered more than 200 different global ESG best practice frameworks and has been bespoke to particular country laws and regulations, which aids in avoiding the "negative screening" of domestic companies.

X-Ray

Introducing X-Ray, the industry-leading platform for comprehensive ESG analysis. With a database featuring more than 350 ESG factors per company per year, X-Ray is your one-stop solution for in-depth insights into the sustainability performance of listed companies. X-Ray provides a comprehensive platform with a user-friendly dashboard for analyzing sector/country ESG factors and policies disclosed by listed companies. Our platform seamlessly integrates and structures vast amounts of ESG-related datasets from various public sources into a single database, ensuring you receive the most up-to-date and accurate information. X-Ray's user-friendly dashboard offers a visually appealing experience, making it easy for investors, analysts, and stakeholders to explore ESG metrics and policies. Our Company Report dashboard boasts interactive charts and graphs, enabling you to swiftly identify critical ESG trends and patterns within any sector or country. Recognized as the ESG Data provider of the Year for Africa by Environmental Finance, X-Ray is committed to delivering unparalleled ESG insights. Whether you're a responsible investor seeking to make informed decisions, an analyst tracking ESG performance, or a stakeholder interested in a company's sustainability journey, X-Ray empowers you with the knowledge you need. 
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A-Cubed

A-Cubed is a groundbreaking, AI-driven tool meticulously designed to assess the Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) readiness of private companies, unlisted subsidiaries, and supply chains. Crafted with cutting-edge technology, A-Cubed empowers organizations to take control of their sustainable future. This versatile tool serves multiple purposes, offering ESG ratings for private companies, efficient ESG supply chain management, comprehensive ESG client portfolio management, and streamlined ESG consolidated reporting for subsidiaries. Its ingenious design allows private companies to self-evaluate their ESG performance, making the entire process quick and accessible. Within just 48 hours, A-Cubed delivers a comprehensive ESG readiness assessment for an organization's supply chains or client portfolio, along with seamless consolidation of reports from subsidiaries. What sets A-Cubed apart is its exceptional capacity to enable organizations to become stewards of sustainability and responsible business practices. A-Cubed's AI-driven algorithms draw from an extensive array of ESG criteria, evaluating performance across critical domains such as climate change, human rights, labor standards, and diversity and inclusion. It measures a company's ESG performance against industry standards and benchmarks, helping organizations understand their commitment to sustainability. By placing the tools for ESG readiness assessment firmly in the hands of private companies, A-Cubed empowers them to proactively shape a more sustainable future. This innovative tool ensures that ESG-related data is efficiently gathered, validated, and scored within a mere 48 hours, enabling organizations to make informed decisions and drive positive change. For more information click here.

Vision

 

Vision Dashboard, the world's first platform that redefines how we assess companies within specific industries. This visionary tool revolutionizes industry analysis and investment decisions by offering invaluable ESG (Environment, Social, and Governance) insights, empowering users to make informed choices that align with their values. The Vision Dashboard meticulously evaluates companies using a wide range of ESG metrics, including water usage, carbon emissions, diversity, and community engagement. What sets it apart is its dynamic nature, allowing users to customize intensity calculations to focus on their preferred ESG criteria. Take, for example, the water intensity metric, which measures a company's environmental impact by analyzing water usage per unit of output or revenue. The Vision Dashboard goes beyond data, providing sector-wide rankings based on these scores, enabling users to make meaningful comparisons among companies within the sector. But the real strength of the Vision Dashboard lies in its flexibility. It enables users to tailor their approach to meet their unique goals and values. In a world where responsible investing and sustainability are increasingly vital, this innovative tool transcends conventional industry analysis. It empowers users to allocate resources wisely and make investments that resonate with their ESG principles. The Vision Dashboard isn't just a dashboard; it's a visionary tool that reshapes the way we approach investment and industry analysis. With its comprehensive ESG-driven insights, it becomes an indispensable resource for navigating industries, making informed choices, and driving positive change in today's responsible investment landscape.

KaleidoScope

KaleidoScope, the groundbreaking software that revolutionizes how investors, analysts, and stakeholders assess the Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG) disclosure and performance of listed companies. As the world's first advanced tool of its kind, KaleidoScope offers a comprehensive dashboard that presents SWOT analyses for ESG, providing unprecedented insights into company disclosures and performance. With its user-friendly interface, this essential tool allows you to compare the ESG performance of multiple companies at a glance, whether you're interested in companies within the same sector or the top 5 companies with the highest Market Cap. KaleidoScope references over 350 ESG factors, empowering users to evaluate a company's performance relative to its peers. It's not just a tool; it's a game-changer for anyone seeking to make informed investment decisions based on ESG criteria. This cutting-edge software also provides a detailed breakdown of ESG disclosures, offering a deep dive into how each company measures up against its competitors. By incorporating the insights of KaleidoScope into your decision-making process, you'll navigate the world of investments with confidence, armed with a comprehensive understanding of ESG disclosure and performance in the corporate landscape.

Rating Watch

Rating Watch, is an innovative tool that leverages real-time news feeds to measure and analyze the ESG sentiment of listed companies. This intelligent BOT continuously gathers the latest data sentiment, enabling precise assessments of companies' ESG performance and reputation.

ESG GPS SCM - Supply Chain Management

ESG GPS SCM - Environmental, Social, and Governance Guided Supply Chain Management, is a game-changing, AI-driven tool exclusively designed to navigate the way organizations manage their ESG risks and reporting in supply chains. With cutting-edge technology at its core, ESG GPS SCM empowers businesses to take control of their sustainable future, ensuring they remain on course for responsible and environmentally conscious operations.

Key Features and Benefits:

1. Guided ESG Supply Chain Management focuses on providing comprehensive ESG assessments for supply chains. AI-driven algorithms meticulously evaluate the supply chain's performance across critical ESG domains, including climate change, human rights, labor standards, and diversity and inclusion. This in-depth analysis allows your organization to navigate the ESG landscape effectively and make data-driven decisions.

2. Rapid ESG Assessment: ESG GPS SCM enables them to efficiently assess their supply chain ESG risks and performance. In just 48 hours, our cutting-edge technology delivers a thorough ESG assessment for the supply chain. This swift turnaround empowers organizations to make informed decisions swiftly and enhance their ESG performance.

3. Streamlined ESG Data Management: ESG GPS SCM simplifies the process of gathering, validating, and scoring ESG-related data for the supply chain. Our innovative platform ensures that ESG data is efficiently managed, assisting organizations to maintain a comprehensive overview of their ESG performance and compliance.

4. Benchmarking vs Industry Standards: ESG GPS SCM measures the supply chain's ESG performance against industry benchmarks and standards, providing valuable insights into your commitment to sustainability. This feature enables you to navigate the ESG landscape effectively, positioning your organization as a leader in responsible business practices.

5. ESG Consolidated Reporting: ESG GPS SCM makes consolidating ESG reports from suppliers easy. By integrating data from across the supply chain, you can effortlessly generate comprehensive ESG reports that reflect your commitment to sustainability.

ESG GPS SOE – State Owned Enterprise

ESG GPS SOE is an innovative, AI-powered tool meticulously engineered to serve as the Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) GPS for state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and their subsidiaries. Its cutting-edge technology empowers governments and state entities to navigate the path toward sustainable governance with precision and clarity. ESG GPS SOE is tailored to cater exclusively to the unique needs of state-owned enterprises and provides a comprehensive solution for ESG readiness and responsible governance.

Key Features and Benefits:

1. Guided ESG Assessment for SOEs: ESG GPS SOE utilizes advanced AI algorithms to provide a guided evaluation of SOEs across critical ESG criteria, including climate change, human rights, labor standards, and diversity and inclusion. It enables governments and SOEs to assess their ESG performance against best practices and standards.

2. Effortless ESG Governance: ESG GPS SOE simplifies the ESG readiness assessment process, encouraging state-owned enterprises to take a proactive approach to responsible governance. It offers an accessible platform for self-assessment, fostering a culture of sustainability within SOEs.

3. Unified Reporting for SOE Subsidiaries: ESG GPS SOE streamlines the consolidation of ESG reports from SOE subsidiaries, promoting a unified approach to sustainability and governance.

4. Swift Data Validation: ESG GPS SOE excels in efficient ESG data collection, validation, and scoring, providing governments and SOEs with the insights needed to make informed decisions and drive positive change in a timely manner.

5. Benchmarking Against Global Standards: ESG GPS SOE offers a comparative analysis of SOEs' ESG performance against global standards considering local specifics, allowing them to understand their position in the landscape of responsible business practices.

With ESG GPS-SOE, state-owned enterprises can confidently navigate the path to sustainability, demonstrating their unwavering commitment to ESG principles, and fostering transparency and accountability within their operations.

ESG GPS PM - Portfolio Management

ESG GPS PM, or Environmental, Social, and Governance Global Portfolio Management, is an innovative product designed to revolutionize ESG portfolio management. This AI-powered tool empowers organizations to take control of ESG risks and opportunities within their credit and investment portfolios.

Key Features and Benefits:

1. ESG Portfolio Ratings: ESG GPS PM offers comprehensive ESG ratings for clients' portfolios, focusing on sustainable Alpha. Advanced AI-driven algorithms evaluate performance across crucial domains, including climate change, human rights, labor standards, diversity, and inclusion. By comparing your portfolio's ESG performance against industry standards and country specifics, you gain valuable insights into your commitment to sustainability.

2. Efficiency of Analysis: ESG GPS PM seamlessly integrates ESG management into your portfolio strategy, evaluating your portfolio's ESG within 48 hours, helping you make informed decisions.

3. Consolidated ESG Reporting: Simplify the complexity of ESG reporting for your portfolio. It allows you to gather, validate, and score ESG-related data effortlessly.

Reporting

ESG GPS Reporting - ESG GPS R. Your ultimate ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) reporting tool is designed to provide you with in-depth, data-driven insights into the ESG performance of your subsidiaries to make the process of consolidation and reporting easy and efficient.

Key Features and Benefits:

1.Real-time Data Analysis: fast access to the subsidiaries’ ESG performance.

2. Materiality Factor Prioritization: ESG GPS R allows you to set key reporting factors and parameters.

3. Sustainability Outlook: Get a 360-degree view of a company's sustainability performance via access to ESG data of subsidiaries instantly.

4. Consolidate and report effortlessly using a user-friendly interface.

5. Strategic alignment: ensure policy alignment and data monitoring of subsidiaries.

Risk Insights Research Reports

At Risk Insights, we are at the forefront of ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) analysis, empowering leaders across industries with strategic, data-driven insights. We utilize cutting-edge technology and a rich database to gather and analyze vast amounts of information, enabling us to craft ESG research reports that guide critical decision-making processes. Each of our ESG research reports is a product of rigorous research, utilizing the latest in data science to ensure relevance and reliability. To learn more about our Research Reports click here, or contact us at info@riskinsights.co.za. Together, let's navigate the ESG landscape and build a sustainable future for Africa and beyond.