As sustainable investing continues to gain currency, institutional investors seek robust ESG information to guide their investment decisions. By partnering with ISS ESG, Manaos will expand its range of sustainability offerings, empowering its clients to access a wealth of ESG research, ratings, and data from an industry leading provider.
With this partnership, clients on the Manaos platform will have access to ISS ESG’s extensive range of ESG data to support reporting solutions like the European ESG Template (EET). Clients on Manaos can also create portfolio reporting with ISS ESG data to determine carbon footprints, emissions data, carbon intensity metrics, derived metrics and benchmarks, physical risk factors, Transition Value at Risk (TVaR) analysis, Carbon Risk Ratings, potential avoided emissions, sovereign emissions, and impact on biodiversity.
Clients on the Manaos platform can also access ISS ESG's Regulatory Sustainable Investment Solution, designed to help global financial market participants define and quantify sustainable investments, customize strategies, and meet regulatory reporting requirements including SFDR Article 8 and Article 9.
Franck Delbes, CEO of Manaos, expressed his enthusiasm for the partnership, stating,
"It is our great pleasure to onboard ISS ESG, a widely recognized leader in the sustainability arena, as a new provider on the Manaos platform. Through this partnership, we aim to empower our clients with unparalleled access to extensive climate and biodiversity datasets, fulfilling a long-standing demand for comprehensive environmental insights. This collaboration is key to our vision of bringing the sustainability ecosystem together on a single interface, for more effective investment decision-making, analytics and reporting. "
Lorraine Kelly, ISS’ Global Head of Investment Stewardship Solutions, added,
“We are delighted to make our unique and differentiated sustainability data sets, which support a wide range of use-cases for subscribing institutional investors, readily available on Manaos's platform. These include helping investors analyze climate and biodiversity risks and meet SFDR Article 8 and Article 9 and other regulatory reporting requirements. This collaboration aligns with ISS ESG’s mission to provide institutional investors with multiple data delivery options, allowing clients to access and use our information in a manner that most effectively meets their business needs.”