Covalence SA
www.covalence.chFounded in 2001 in Geneva, Covalence helps investors integrate ESG factors with its AI-powered scoring system comparing corporate disclosures to news sentiment. We offer ratings, news data, reports, and advisory supporting investment management, portfolio reporting and ESG assessments. Our main differentiators are: news based-data covering negative and positive issues; strength in the S of ESG; forward-looking data enabling to assess the credibility of sustainability commitments. Our clients are found among asset owners, wealth managers, asset managers, benchmarks, rating agencies, corporates, international organisations, universities and learning centers. The Covalence approach is based on a diversity of sources of information and relies on web monitoring and artificial intelligence together with human analysis. We compare ESG data publicly reported by companies (disclosure) to online narrative content reflecting the perceptions of stakeholders such as the media and NGOs (reputation). Our dynamic, granular, news-based data covers ESG practices (GRI-inspired criteria), impact (SDG, SFDR), materiality (SASB), and forward-looking statements. Covalence is a signatory of the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), an institutional partner of Sustainable Finance Geneva (SFG), a founding member of Swiss Sustainable Finance, and a member of the Chamber of Social and Solidarity Economy in Geneva APRÈS-GE. Since 2001 Covalence has received the following awards and recognitions: • Best Pedagogical Innovation at the FIR-PRI Finance & Sustainability Awards 2019 • 10 innovations de la finance — Geneva, laboratoire de la finance durable (2014) • Ethisphere 2009's 100 Most Influential People in Business Ethics • Finalist Social Entrepreneur of the Year 2005 Switzerland • Prix cantonal du développement durable 2004 (Genève)
Read moreFounded in 2001 in Geneva, Covalence helps investors integrate ESG factors with its AI-powered scoring system comparing corporate disclosures to news sentiment. We offer ratings, news data, reports, and advisory supporting investment management, portfolio reporting and ESG assessments. Our main differentiators are: news based-data covering negative and positive issues; strength in the S of ESG; forward-looking data enabling to assess the credibility of sustainability commitments. Our clients are found among asset owners, wealth managers, asset managers, benchmarks, rating agencies, corporates, international organisations, universities and learning centers. The Covalence approach is based on a diversity of sources of information and relies on web monitoring and artificial intelligence together with human analysis. We compare ESG data publicly reported by companies (disclosure) to online narrative content reflecting the perceptions of stakeholders such as the media and NGOs (reputation). Our dynamic, granular, news-based data covers ESG practices (GRI-inspired criteria), impact (SDG, SFDR), materiality (SASB), and forward-looking statements. Covalence is a signatory of the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), an institutional partner of Sustainable Finance Geneva (SFG), a founding member of Swiss Sustainable Finance, and a member of the Chamber of Social and Solidarity Economy in Geneva APRÈS-GE. Since 2001 Covalence has received the following awards and recognitions: • Best Pedagogical Innovation at the FIR-PRI Finance & Sustainability Awards 2019 • 10 innovations de la finance — Geneva, laboratoire de la finance durable (2014) • Ethisphere 2009's 100 Most Influential People in Business Ethics • Finalist Social Entrepreneur of the Year 2005 Switzerland • Prix cantonal du développement durable 2004 (Genève)
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