How investors use SASB Standards

Public equities

  • Data-driven corporate engagement
  • Input to fundamental equity analysis
  • Constructing ESG-integrated indexes

Corporate fixed income

  • Input to credit analysis and internal credit rating assignment
  • Assess quality of disclosure for insight into risk

Private equity

  • Identify focus areas for fund and portfolio company due diligence
  • Report performance on material ESG topics to GPs and LPs

Real assets

  • Use SASB’s Infrastructure sector standards to guide risk assessment and performance reporting for real assets

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