EIRIS Emerging Markets Service provides environmental, social and governance (ESG) research to enable investors to apply ESG strategies to their global emerging market portfolios.

Emerging markets offer big investment opportunities, but each economy poses its own distinct set of ESG challenges for responsible investors. From governance to business ethics, political instability to human rights, investing in emerging markets carries a high degree of risk which has the potential to severely impact upon business profits and investment returns.

Local knowledge, global coverage

EIRIS Emerging Markets Service provides an understanding of these ESG risks and is designed to support a broad range of responsible investment strategies.

Our unique global platform of research partners, many located in key emerging markets around the world, ensures our global coverage of emerging market companies takes account of locally-relevant. ESG themes and draws on local knowledge and expertise.

EIRIS Emerging Markets Service covers the world’s most commonly-invested companies, spread across thirty emerging economies. It offers different packages of research enabling investors to screen and track compliance with global conventions across a broad, global, emerging markets universe of 800 companies, or drill down further into the ESG risk performance of the largest 300 of these.

Features and benefits

Our unique global platform of research partners located in Asia-Pacific, Latin America and the Middle East, ensures our global emerging markets research captures local knowledge, experience and expertise. Furthermore, our ESG analysts possess the broad set of language skills and an understanding of local business culture necessary to research emerging market companies in different parts of the world.

• Rate, rank and screen emerging market companies to reduce risk or identify better emerging market performers
• Screen on 800 emerging market companies across 30 emerging market economies
• Drill-down further into the ESG risk profile of 300 of these most commonly-invested emerging market companies to get an overall picture of each company’s risk management and performance
• Compare developed-market companies with their emerging market peers on core ESG criteria
• Align your emerging markets investments with your existing responsible investment policy
• Extend your portfolio into new emerging market regions by integrating ESG
• Focus your emerging market strategy to capture the most material ESG issues
• Extend Principles for Responsible Investment commitments to emerging markets

Contact our Sales & Client Services Team to find out how EIRIS Emerging Markets Service can help you to apply ESG approaches to a global emerging market portfolio.