Investor looking for sustainability in the company

The international audit and consultancy company EY (Ernst & Young) announced the results of the Climate Change and Sustainability Services (CCaSS) Research, which has taken the opinion of 298 corporate investors worldwide on non-funded reporting. This year’s fifth research reveals that corporate investors are more focused on evaluation in terms of environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors that are planning to invest in, along with the importance of the sustainability of the pandem.

Financial targets not enough
Based on research• In evaluating the financial performance of companies who consider investing 98 percent of corporate investors, 72 percent of them indicate that they are a structured or methodologyful assessment of the company’s non-funded explanations in their targets. In 2018, 32 percent of investors expressed that they adopt a structured approach when doing this assessment. However, 91 percent of investors states that their environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues played a very important role in investment decisions that they have received over the last year. In 2018, 43 percent of investors often and 34 percent of their time funded information had affected investment decisions. [

Enjoy change decisions
The research indicates that climate change keeps investors an important place in decision-making processes. 73 percent of investors express their physical risk of climate change in asset distribution and asset selection decisions. Research shows that investors have increased their demands for independent evaluation in their ESG performance. 75 percent of investors participating in the research expresses the value of their plans against climate change risks. The 82 percent of investors also states that an independent assessment for the explanations of companies in green investment is useful.