Customers

ASSET4 has a broad range of international customers working on a variety of applications including: pension fund management, investment research, risk assessment & control, fixed income models, buy/sell side research, product development, negative screening, ESG rating, SRI research and investment criteria monitoring.

Client testimonials

Colonial First State Global Asset Management

David Dixon, Chief Investment Officer at CFSGAM said: “The appointment of ASSET4 means our investment teams will have some of the world’s best quality ESG data and tools to help make the best possible investment decisions for our clients.”

“We favoured ASSET4 because their broad coverage includes sovereign and unlisted companies that can be used by the credit and fixed income teams, and they have in-depth coverage of emerging markets companies."

NYSE Euronext

“Environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues have now become very important factors affecting a company’s overall performance and risk profile,” said Joseph Mecane, EVP and Chief Administrative Officer, U.S. Markets, NYSE Euronext. “ASSET4 can provide corporate leaders a sustainability matrix through which they manage their corporate social responsibility strategies with increased accuracy. We are pleased to work with ASSET4, and our collaboration underscores NYSE Euronext’s commitment to providing world-class value-added services to our listed companies.”

Nestlé

“Nestlé has a fundamental commitment to improving its ESG performance through what we call, ‘Creating Shared Value,’ which ties long-term business success and the creation of shareholder value to the creation of value for society at large.” said Roddy Child-Villiers, Nestlé’s head of Investor Relations. “Our focus is on improving our own actions, commitments and communication in the areas of sustainability and corporate governance, but it is also helpful to see how we compare to our peers and other industry leaders. ASSET4 helps us do this by showing where we stand and allowing us to move forward more effectively and efficiently.”

KBC Asset Management

“We have selected the assetmasterProfessional™ solution because of the objectivity and scope of its data as well as the transparency that is built into the entire solution,” said Geert Heuninck, KBC Asset Management's Head of SRI Department. “With the product and its Excel Add-In functionality, our SRI analysts can seamlessly integrate ASSET4’s ESG data into their current best-in-class and environmental research. Whether an analyst is investigating a company’s performance on human rights, carbon emissions or corporate governance the in-depth ASSET4 data will provide a new resource to consider. Since 1992 we have been the SRI leader in Belgium and now with access to ASSET4’s universe of over 2,600 companies and its 250 key performance indicators and 900 data points, we can continue to expand and deepen our SRI research and screening processes.”

TD Asset Management

“As part of our commitment to sustainable investing, we’ve been developing a proprietary sustainability matrix to ensure our analysis of a company includes a thorough examination of ESG factors,” said Bruce Cooper, Managing Director, TD Asset Management. “ASSET4 offers comprehensive and verifiable ESG data which will be particularly useful to this matrix as well as being extremely valuable as we continue to assess our own ESG practices.”

AEGON Asset Management

“AEGON Asset Management has been a front-runner in the development of ethical investment vehicles for more than two decades,” said Ryan Smith, AEGON’s Head of Corporate Governance & SRI. “By signing the UN’s Principles for Responsible Investment, we have further committed to incorporate ESG issues into investment analysis and decision-making processes throughout the organisation.  The addition of the ASSET4 information solution to our research capabilities gives us an in-depth ability to identify and understand the ESG performance of each of the companies, industries and sectors that we invest in across all the funds we manage.”

Sustainable Investment Research Platform (SIRP)

“With access to ASSET4’s objective and comprehensive ESG data the researchers that collaborate through our platform can now focus on their research topics without having to collect the data themselves,“ said Professor Lars Hassel, Director of SIRP. “SIRP was founded at Umeå University’s School of Business in 2006 and has produced a number of well-received academic studies on the business case for sustainable development. Having the ability to access ASSET4’s predefined key performance indicators (KPIs), as well as create own, will allow us to more efficiently and effectively focus on our mission—researching the economic value of corporate social responsibility.”

Merrill Lynch

Mike Stewart, head of Global Cash Equities at Merrill Lynch, stated, “We recognize the growing importance of ESG information to the investing and corporate community and believe ASSET4 is a global leader in providing such information."

Added Candace Browning, president of Merrill Lynch Global Research, “The ASSET4 framework enhances our ability to address the increasing demand from individual and institutional clients to review sustainability criteria. This new information source will allow Merrill Lynch analysts to augment their research analyses by also evaluating the non-financial aspects of companies.”

Goldman Sachs

“We believe that the ASSET4 product offering will have broad applicability across our global investor client base” said Michael Sanders, Managing Director in the Equities Division of Goldman Sachs. “It appeals to a range of clients, from institutional investors with socially-responsible investment (SRI) mandates to hedge funds looking for unique sources of alpha generation. We are pleased to have the opportunity to introduce the ASSET4 service to our clients.”

Suzanne Nora Johnson, Vice Chairman of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. and Global Head of Investment Research, said: “With increasing frequency, our clients around the world are relying on extra-financial data to gain deeper insights into corporate strategy, governance and financial performance. By integrating ASSET4’s system into our global research offering we can provide a unique investment perspective to our investor clients.”

Partial client list

  • Alternative Bank ABS
  • APG Investments
  • A. T. Kearney
  • AXA
  • Bank Sarasin
  • BNP PARIBAS Asset Management
  • Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec
  • CalSTRS
  • Colonial First State Global Asset Management
  • E. Capital Partners
  • Fortis
  • Goldman Sachs
  • Good Guide
  • KBC Asset Management
  • Lombard Odier Darier Hentsch & Cie
  • Merrill Lynch
  • Nestlé
  • NYSE Euronext
  • Philips International
  • RWE
  • Shell Asset Management
  • Société Générale
  • State of New Jersey Pension Fund
  • Storebrand
  • TD Asset Management
  • USBE
  • WestLB