Dr Robert Eccles discusses sustainability with TruValue Labs

 In a recent interview with TruValue Labs, Dr. Robert Eccles, Professor of Management Practice at Harvard Business School, discusses the importance of sustainability, the trends behind Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG) reporting and data sets, and the latest innovations that are helping investors better understand the implications and potential materiality of ESG issues within their investments.

Sustainability and ESG factors are increasingly recognized by the investment community as essential elements in understanding the performance and valuation of investments across all asset classes. Reacting to investor demand, companies are increasingly implementing sustainability programs and reporting more comprehensively on the ESG issues that may affect financial performance. Beyond this self-reported company information, there is also a vast amount of ESG data and performance signals that can be extracted from publicly available data.

Dr. Eccles said: “Today, we live in an information-rich world, where investors can access a vast quantity of data. From the expansive outputs resulting from a 24-hour news cycle in traditional media, to non-traditional media content including social media, blogs, and YouTube, to the availability of commentary from experts, customers, and employees. This information, covering a full range of disparate issues, is communicated across the globe instantaneously, with a huge amount of data being generated every second.”

However, this abundance of information is also a challenge; the vast quantity of data available, the various formats it can take, and its uneven quality all contribute to current difficulties in extracting meaningful signals from the noise.

Until now.

“What we’ve done at TruValue Labs is develop a sophisticated methodology that brings in all the potentially relevant content that’s out there in the world. We sift through that information, we extract the quality data, we consolidate it in a rigorous process within a set of frameworks and analytical tools to be able to provide real-time sustainability and ESG performance signals on a broad range of companies,” said Eccles.

Click here to hear the full interview and learn about the technological innovations that provide investors with the latest ESG signals from big data.

About TruValue Labs

Headquartered in San Francisco, TruValue Labs is a technology company leveraging advances in natural language processing, cognitive computing, and machine learning to provide actionable insights. Our products analyze big data in real-time, providing analytics from sustainability and Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG) issues at the speed of current events – essential information for successful business and investment decision-making.

As the importance of sustainability issues in underlying value become increasingly apparent, TruValue Labs provides solutions to identify material data for researchers, analysts, portfolio managers, and consumers to help better understand ESG risk and performance.

TruValue Labs

TruValue Labs

Headquartered in San Francisco, TruValue Labs is a technology company leveraging advances in natural language processing, cognitive computing, and machine learning to provide actionable insights. Our products analyze big data in real-time, providing analytics from sustainability and Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG) issues at the speed of current events - an essential tool for successful business and investment decision-making. As the importance of sustainability issues in underlying value become increasingly apparent, TruValue Labs provides solutions to identify material data for researchers, analysts, portfolio managers and consumers to help understand company performance.

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