ESG Risk Ratings - Beta Indicators

Knowing how exposed and how well your portfolio companies manage their material ESG issues is a critical part of making well-informed investment decisions.

That is why the world's leading investors rely on our ESG research and ratings for a consistent approach to evaluate financially material ESG issues that affect the long-term performance of their investments.

Covering more than 16,000 companies, Morningstar Sustainalytics has the widest coverage of analyst-based ESG Risk Ratings in the market. The newly expanded universe includes public and private companies, fixed-income issuers and listed Chinese companies and allows investors to support diversified investment strategies.

Sustainalytics ESG Risk Ratings measure a company's exposure to industry-specific material ESG risks and how well a company is managing those risks. This multi-dimensional way of measuring ESG risk combines the concepts of management and exposure to arrive at an absolute assessment of ESG risk. We identify five categories of ESG risk severity that could impact a company's enterprise value.

Beta Indicators drill down into the exposure dimension of the ESG Risk Rating, providing the signals and outcome categories of the regular beta indicators, special beta indicators, and event beta indicators that contribute to a company's exposure. Includes both the core and comprehensive frameworks.

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