Asset owners need revamped approach to conquer sustainability mountainBY SUZY YOON | FRIDAY, 31 OCT 2025 2:36PM The federal government's new 2035 climate targets should catalyse a renewed and more ambitious focus on the net zero targets and stewardship programs of institutional investors. Upgrade your subscription to access this article
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Suzy, I agree that flexibility is key. ESG Data Vendors are providing an ever-increasing number of metrics and measures. The challenge becomes selecting the metrics that are meaningful (anything required for Reg Reporting should be considered mandatory), mastering a reliable set of data against multiple vendors each with their own calculation methods, and then applying it to portfolios to understand exposures ... based on look through. We've done a lot of work to make this possible via partnerships with ESG data vendors and a data driven approach to create Regulatory and internal reporting taxonomies. Ideally the asset manager's Sustainability group can select the measures they want and get both analytics and exception warning for things like exclusion lists. Sadly because of some green washing breaches and fines, organisations are moving away from ESG claims rather than moving more to reliable ESG measurement.