ESG in Asia/Pacific: Who is (Really) Pushing for More Transparency: What Data do They Want
ESG can cover a broad range of attributes such as climate change, content governance, and cybersecurity to gender-pay equity, board diversity, human rights, and workplace sexual harassment. Asset managers have a requirement to disclose how they voted on portfolios.
ESG can cover a broad range attributes such as climate change, content governance and cybersecurity to gender-pay equity, board diversity, human rights and workplace sexual harassment. Asset managers have a requirement to disclose how they voted on portfolio company ballots. The Asian trading and investment community is dominated by retail/High Net Worth investors. Is ESG is being used as a regional “buy-side magnet”; are Asia family offices and retail investors really pushing for more transparency in this area?
Where does the data come from; how is the data verified for accuracy?
How do investors receive the data: from exchange and data vendor feeds?
Are traditional Portfolio / Risk Management systems being used to process and analyse the data; how?
How does an information provider / market data vendor detect and avoid “green washing”?
Are the FinTechs and Unicorns leading, lagging or dismissive of ESG?
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FISD is the global forum of choice for industry participants to discuss, understand, and facilitate the evolution of financial information for the key players in the value chain including consumer firms, third party groups, and data providers. It is a dynamic environment in which members identify the trends that will shape the industry, and create education opportunities and industry initiatives to address them. For more information about membership, please contact Tracey Shumpert at tshumpert@siia.net
Rights Automation – Taking Digital Rights Management DRM Forward
This session will briefly repeat the key principles and arguments for this initiative – but predominantly it will update the wider community on progress to date and present ideas for the way forwards, with an additional and necessary focus on the obstacles, objections and difficulties that can’t be shied away from. — FISD is the global forum of choice for industry participants to discuss, understand, and facilitate the evolution of financial information for the key players in the value chain including consumer firms, third party groups, and data providers. It is a dynamic environment in which members identify the trends that will shape the industry, and create education opportunities and industry initiatives to address them. For more information about membership, please contact Tracey Shumpert at tshumpert@siia.net
FISD Day: Looking Back at a Unicorn: The Market Data Industry in a Pandemic Year
Who won and who lost in the market data industry last year? This presentation and responsive panel will explore market data financial performance in 2020, how the industry performed in the onset of the pandemic, the evolving market data usage paradigm and what’s in store in 2021 and beyond. Learn about the results of Burton-Taylor’s research and what industry participants and customers really think. — FISD is the global forum of choice for industry participants to discuss, understand, and facilitate the evolution of financial information for the key players in the value chain including consumer firms, third party groups, and data providers. It is a dynamic environment in which members identify the trends that will shape the industry, and create education opportunities and industry initiatives to address them. For more information about membership, please contact Tracey Shumpert at tshumpert@siia.net
Buy Side Fireside Chat and Roundtable Confessions of a Quant with Avi Rosenbluth
The Alternative Data council presents this fireside chat and roundtable discussion with Avi Rosenbluth, a quantitative portfolio manager. Avi has deep and broad experience utilizing data to make investment decisions through recent executive roles at AQR and Goldman Sachs. This will be a wonderful opportunity to hear from a typically tight-lipped section of the industry and to discuss your thoughts with peers. Topics will include: the data requirements of discretionary vs. systematic strategies and how alternative data is facilitating some approaches and may hamstring others the importance of timely, frequent, curated and reliable data and what happens when any of these elements is not present what machine learning can and cannot do advice for vendors on when to pursue and when to abandon building out a particular data set the role of regulations and standards in supporting the growth of the alternative data industry. — FISD is the global forum of choice for industry participants to discuss, understand, and facilitate the evolution of financial information for the key players in the value chain including consumer firms, third party groups, and data providers. It is a dynamic environment in which members identify the trends that will shape the industry, and create education opportunities and industry initiatives to address them. For more information about membership, please contact Tracey Shumpert at tshumpert@siia.net
