A Look at How UBS's Concentrated Alpha Team Integrates ESG Data

MIT research has found that, on average, rating providers agree on the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance of the companies they evaluate only about 66% of the time. This is why, for investment professionals at UBS Asset Management, ESG integration involves enriching third-party ratings—not only with the asset manager’s own scores, but also with insight from a specialized, in-house team of analysts who can dig deep into the data, says Nicole Lim, an equities specialist within