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June 2021 Introducing Util sustainability analytics Next generation impact analytics 1
What is Util? The world’s most comprehensive, detailed, and objective dataset for measuring the real-world impact of companies and portfolios. Util is what ESG wants to be when it grows up. Next generation impact analytics 2
ESG is not OK Record-breaking demand for sustainability is being met with critically flawed data Overwhelming demand: Poor existing data: Without better data, the costs and risks for financial institutions keep growing: ● 30% of global AUM today ● data disagrees > 50% of the ● Projected to reach 60% by time ● Mispricing 2025 ● labour-intensive collection and ● Greenwashing risk evaluation doesn’t scale ● Regulatory risk (failure to meet ● opinion-driven analysis lacks new regulatory requirements for compelling evidence sustainable funds) ● incomplete coverage ● biased company disclosures influence data Next generation impact analytics 3
How is Util different? We set a higher standard in three key ways: No bogus claims No opinions. Just evidence, at scale It’s complicated. And that’s okay ● What companies sell is their ● Rather than relying on one ● Most things are both good and defining characteristic, not rater’s view, we use machine bad to differing degrees what they claim or promise learning to process a massive ● The challenge is to measure and peer-reviewed evidence base manage real-world trade-offs (120M+ source texts) Next generation impact analytics 4
You can have all three! (You usually can’t.) Objective Comprehensive Detailed ● 120 million peer-reviewed ● 45,000 companies (every listed ● +/- alignments to 2,000+ academic and scientific texts company in the world) sustainability themes including ● Literally the collective work of UN SDGs ● 6,000 ETFs the world’s finest minds in ● metrics for 12,000 products ● portfolio aggregations on every discipline ● 243 global locations request ● summary metrics Next generation impact analytics 5
How does Util compare to the competition? Util MSCI Clarity AI S&P Trucost ISS Company 45,000 companies 8,600 29,000 3,500 6,500 coverage Product 12,000 products - - 464 activities - coverage SDG coverage 17 SDGs plus: 17 SDGs only Only 52 of 169 17 SDGs only 17 SDGs only SDG targets ● 169 targets ● 2000+ sustainability concepts Output metrics ● positive and negative SDG ● 5-point scale speculative ● positive % only ● scale -10 to 10 alignment ● 0 history metric, ‘if the ● 189 geographies ● % revenues whole market ● 1-year history ● $ revenues did x’ ● product alignment to each SDG ● geographic adjustment for 243 locations ● 5-year history Next generation impact analytics 6
A quick look: Apple, Inc. Next generation impact analytics 7
Data that’s deployable (almost) everywhere Our focus on producing rich data at scale leaves many deployment options and use cases open ● Report on existing funds Asset managers, ● Build new differentiated funds with sustainable goals (aligned with EU SFDR regulation) Asset owners ● Engage with portfolio companies armed with evidence-driven data Institutions serving ● Build model portfolios financial advisors, ● Compare ETFs and choose optimal combinations private wealth Individual retail ● Understand and manage the sustainability of personal portfolios investors ● Compare companies to find value and sustainable impact ● Discover, measure, mitigate sustainability risks Insurers ● Anticipate greenwashing risk Next generation impact analytics 8
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