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? 

Panelists:

Grace Hui, Managing Director, Head of Green and Sustainable Finance, Markets Division, Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited

Sam Lee, Prop Director, ESG & Investment Solutions, Refinitiv

Michael Savatico, Head of Asia Pacific ESG Business Development, S&P Global Sustainable1, S&P Global

Chris Terzis, Director, Client Relations APAC, Sustainalytics