ACA Vantage for ESG
A one-stop solution for ESG portfolio management and risk monitoring: scan company ESG profiles, collect data, report, and benchmark.
The Challenge
The focus on Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) has risen rapidly in recent years, with investors and global regulators demanding greater transparency and reporting. If you manage a private equity, private credit, or collateralized asset fund, it can be challenging to meet these growing expectations for your portfolio because you may find that:
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Portfolios vary greatly in industries, requiring customized metrics and ESG asset management.
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Investors seek reporting on differing metrics.
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Information may be limited or unavailable due to investment percentage or influence.
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Deciphering the similarities and differences of ESG frameworks and reporting standards such as Principals for Responsible Investment (PRI), Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), Sustainable Financial Disclosure Regulation (SFDR), and Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark (GRESB) is challenging and time consuming.
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Aggregating ESG data across the portfolio seems overwhelming without a management system, and even after gathering data, you may not understand how it can be helpful to your firm and your portfolio.
The Solution: Turn to ACA Vantage for ESG
Our team of ESG data management experts will help you select monitoring criteria that:
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aligns with ESG commitments and frameworks;
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meets investor expectations; and,
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is material to your portfolio company’s industries.
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What is ACA Vantage for ESG?
Discover a flexible software solution that solves data management challenges across private equity and private debt portfolios.
With ACA Vantage for ESG portfolio management, you gain visibility to monitor and oversee your portfolio companies’ environmental, social, and governance posture.
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What's Included?
Understand the ESG risk and impact data points of each portfolio company
Custom-select metrics and issue questionnaires to your portfolio companies, with responses aggregated in a central dashboard.
Gain real-time insights to understand the true ESG performance of your portfolio companies and identify opportunities for risk mitigation and value creation.
Visualize your data in context and compare benchmarks. Our robust proprietary benchmarks are available across metrics.
Tap into expert support to review each portfolio company’s ESG asset management practices and provide tailored recommendations for improvements to improve operations, reduce risk, and create value.
Access highly customizable reporting to show company, portfolio, and metrics focused reporting for investors and other stakeholders.
Estimate and/or calculate company and portfolio carbon emissions.
Partner with ACA for Peace of Mind
ACA’s ESG practice helps hundreds of managers navigate their ESG compliance, data, and analytics challenges. With heightened regulatory focus on ESG globally, clients trust ACA, the leading governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) advisor in financial services, to not only advise on ESG strategies, but also manage risk exposures. Talk with us today to explore how we can help your firm.
Benefits
For Private Credit, Venture Capital, & Securitized Asset Portfolios
- Achieve full coverage of ESG analysis across all investment names, closing a compliance gap that may exist from other data providers. New companies can be added in 48-72 hours, leveraging our proprietary data collection and monitoring methods (AI + Analysts)
- Obtain ESG company and peer data to benchmark practices, all without disruption to the companies
- Easily implement your custom ESG scoring methodology or align with your existing methodology, including accessing aligned scorecards and dashboards on ACA Vantage
- Daily controversy monitoring and alerting to stay on top of significant negative news events across your portfolio
- Physical climate risk analysis, including in-depth, address-level analysis across 18 climate risk categories. Includes assessment of value of investments at risk of significant climate hazards
For Private Equity
- Metrics, analytics, reporting, all in one platform to use for various internal/external purposes, streamlining and simplifying ESG data management, making sense of next steps to understand how best to support portfolio companies
- Option to build long term partnerships with portfolio companies
- Daily controversy monitoring and alerting to stay on top of significant negative news events across your portfolio
Global industry insights
ACA’s ESG practice helps hundreds of managers navigate their ESG compliance, data, and analytics challenges. With heightened regulatory focus on ESG globally, clients trust ACA, the leading governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) advisor in financial services, to not only advise on ESG strategies, but also with the management of ESG portfolio risk exposures. Talk with us today to explore how we can help your firm.
Actionable data for informed decision making
ACA Vantage for ESG portfolio management is powered by ACA’s ESG Data & Analytics solution, Ethos. Ethos aggregates public and private data to provide transparent ESG risk and impact analysis on listed and non-listed issuers. Our research, powered by AI and fundamental research, offers fast, deep, and actionable insights into the ESG risk and impact of a portfolio, fund, or individual asset.
Deep expertise
ACA’s ESG asset management practice is comprised of ESG/sustainability professionals who support managers and companies across a variety of industries with ESG materiality assessments, strategy planning/execution, and stakeholder reporting, among other things. Our award-winning ESG data management solutions are designed to help firms monitor ESG risks and opportunities, and help companies grow sustainably.