by Jbs010509 D3 — January 9, 2009—ASSET4 AG, provider of environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) information, recently released its assetmasterExecutive solution, which enables corporate executives, board members, CSR managers, and others to quickly and easily monitor their company’s ESG performance and that of their peers.
In response to changing economic conditions and demands of long-term investors and other stakeholders, corporate executives are now analyzing an expanded set of competitive parameters that include their carbon footprint, board independence, and employee satisfaction, for example. Today, executives must understand whether their performance in these and other extra-financial areas will enhance their ability to attract long-term investment or instead increase their level of overall enterprise risk.
The assetmasterExecutive solution, which accesses ASSET4’s “world’s largest” (over 2300 companies) database of objective and transparent ESG information, allows users to monitor default configurations that contain 80 extra-financial key performance indicators (KPIs) with which to monitor their company and its peers. For example, one configuration enables users to benchmark their performance against the Global Reporting Initiative standard. In addition, within each standard or customized benchmark, best practices are identified for each KPI, enabling users to see how they rate in comparison to other companies.
