How Investors Use SASB Standards
The use of SASB Standards in disclosures to investors over time, and other efforts, will improve the availability of consistent, comparable and reliable data on the ESG factors that are material to enterprise value creation.
While that vision is being realized, SASB Standards are useful independent of disclosure. SASB Standards enable ESG integration across multiple asset classes:
Public Equities:
- Data-driven corporate engagement
- Input to fundamental equity analysis
- Constructing ESG-integrated indexes
Corporate Fixed Income
- Input to credit analysis and internal credit rating assignment
- Assess quality of disclosure for insight into risk
Private Equity
- Identify focus areas for fund and portfolio company due diligence
- Report to GPs and LPs on performance on material ESG topics
Real Assets
- Use SASB’s Infrastructure sector standards to guide risk assessment and performance reporting for real assets
Case Studies
For examples of ESG integration in action, read these case studies. We have published dozens of cases by investors across asset classes, strategies, and markets—find them in the Knowledge Hub.
A growing number of asset managers reference SASB Standards in their proxy voting guidelines and other policy documents, including:
- Aberdeen Standard Investments
- As You Sow
- Aviva Investors
- BlackRock
- BlackRock Sustainability Funds
- British Columbia Investment Management Corporation (BCI)
- Calvert Research and Management, Inc
- Columbia Threadneedle UK
- Columbia Threadneedle US
- Egan-Jones Socially Responsible Investor Guidelines
- Fiera Capital Corporation
- First Affirmative Financial Network LLC
- Glass Lewis Shareholder Initiatives
- Goldman Sachs Asset Management
- ISS Climate International
- Morgan Stanley Investment Management Inc.
- Neuberger Berman
- Northern Trust Investments
- PCJ Investment Counsel Ltd
- Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association
- State Street Global Advisors
- Ten Principles of Corporate Governance of the Luxembourg Stock Exchange
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