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Semi-annual Changes to the NASDAQ OMX CRD Global Sustainability 50 Index

The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:NDAQ) and CRD Analytics, LLC announced today the results of the semi-annual evaluation of the NASDAQ OMX CRD Global Sustainability 50 Index (NASDAQ:QCRD), which will become effective with the...[more]

NASDAQ OMX and CRD Analytics Launch New Index Tracking Corporate Sustainability Performance

New Benchmark Tracks Companies Taking the Lead in Sustainability Performance Reporting -- The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:NDAQ) and the CRD Analytics today introduced the NASDAQ OMX CRD Global Sustainability 50 Index...[more]

SmartViewTM – the Quantitative Approach to Sustainable Investment

As the embrace of Sustainable and Responsible Investment practices widens, analytic processes and investment policies and decision-making involves many more asset owners and asset managers – the corporate winners, laggards and losers are being sorted out in the capital markets.

  • Until now, there has been a variety of approaches offered to investors by research and analytic third party service providers, investment banks and asset management firms, SR mutual funds, and indexing tools. 
  • The complaint of both investment professionals and corporate executives is that “hard,” quantitative data is often missing from the investment equation. 
  • Now there is a powerful method of using Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) that reflect both quantitative and qualitative factors to guide investment in the most Sustainable public companies – the Sustainable Performance Values that can be measured and used to create investable indexes, benchmarks and investable products – SmartViewTM

SmartViewTM is a proprietary investment platforms that screens that ranks companies based on more than 150 quantitative financial, environmental and social key performance indicators (KPIs).

  • SmartViewTM generates uses forced methodology to create “best-in-class” and “worst-in-class” ratings and rankings for investors.  SmartViewTM looks across exchanges, industries, sectors, and market segments to produce the strongest investment choices and develop indexes that deliver superior risk-adjusted returns for the long-term – arriving at Sustainable Performance Values.
  • SmartViewTM provides flexibility to isolate performance data sets by sector, fund or peer group while providing for precision drilling-down into the quant metrics of specific companies. 
  • The organization at the center of this important breakthrough is CRD Analytics LLC.  The firm created SmartViewTM, the proprietary investment platform that screens, analyzes and ranks public companies based on more than 150 financial, environmental and social issue key performance indicators (KPIs) that are of growing importance to asset owners and managers in North America, Europe, Asia, Austalia-Pacific Region, and other major capital market centers.

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CRD Analytics

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New York, NY 10013

Governance & Accountability Institute

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New York, NY 10003

 

Governance & Accountability Institute is a monitoring, intelligence-gathering and knowledge management center operating at the intersection of powerful forces reshaping relationships between stockholders and stakeholders, and the public corporation. The key players transforming the markets and interacting with corporate management and boards include fund owners and asset managers and their third party advisors-in sovereign wealth funds,socially responsible investment organizations, activist hedge funds, public pension funds, labor union funds, private equity firms, investment banks...and more.

G&A identifies key players, monitors their activities, conducts research, charts the players's influence on capital markets and companies, and provides news and intelligence through G&As "SustainabilityHQTM" advisory services. SustainabilityHQTM resources at the intersections of powerful capital markets players--and the public and private companies they invest in.