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Overview

Bitvore’s proprietary Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) signals and sentiment scoring for 400K global public and private companies are derived from over 60K publicly available and premium unstructured data sources. These ESG signals and scores provide an “outward-in” view of a company’s performance against ESG standards leveraging news articles, press releases, transcripts and other unstructured data sources. While other ESG information providers focus on what companies say they do in their corporate documents and statements, Bitvore’s “outward-in” view focuses on what companies actually do based on material business events pertaining to ESG. Using machine-learned models (NLP), unique signals and sub-signals have been trained to allow users to quickly identify specific ESG topics of interest such as GHG emissions, Diversity & Inclusion, Product Safety & Quality, Cybersecurity and more.

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What Sets Bitvore Apart

Outward-In View

Many ESG data providers focus on gathering and analyzing company published statements, Sustainability Reports and tracking ESG comments in transcripts.   This can be helpful, but it is an inward-out view that represents only what a company says they do in terms of ESG..  To understand the outward-in view, it is necessary to identify specific ESG-related material business events that show what a company really does in terms of ESG, rather than just what they say they do. Bitvore identifies these ESG-related material business events (or signals) and the associated sentiment in a wide variety of quality unstructured data sources including:

  • News & Online articles
  • Press releases
  • Local/regional papers
  • National/International publications
  • Trade journals
  • Patents database
  • Blogs
  • Corporate Filings
  • EMMA MSRB
  • Earnings Transcripts
  • UCC Filings
  • Funding data

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Subject Matter Expert Trained Models

Bitvore’s NLP models are also trained by subject matter experts in ESG who understand the nuances between different ESG signals.  Other companies use automated training supplemented with junior data annotators, which reduces precision quality metrics.  In addition, our model training undergoes 5 or more cycles of training before we launch a new signal.  

400k Private and Public Companies Tracked

Some companies focus on deriving very specific scores, but given the lack of data for private companies, they limit their datasets to only cover public companies or large private companies.  It’s preferable to include local news sources, regional sources, trade journals as well as the larger national / international news sources.  For example, one major ESG data provider only covers public companies and has a fixed scoring process, whereas Bitvore tracks ESG signals and ESG sentiment for over 400k private and public companies.

Modular Sentiment Scoring Allows Customization for Unique Portfolios

Bitvore’s modular sentiment scoring allows customers to tailor specific ESG scoring calculations for unique portfolios.  For example, if a client wants to calculate ESG scores for mid-sized private companies, they might choose to look at a 90-day rolling average of sentiment scores to assess a company’s ESG score.  On the other hand, if a customer is tracking the S&P 500, they might find a weekly rolling average score or a daily score to be more appropriate for them.  Most companies only offer one score, one solution.  A one-size only solution may not fit all portfolios.

 

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ESG Vs Other ESG Methodologies

Bitvore’s comprehensive ESG methodology includes 24x7x365 surveillance and constant, daily updates.

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Bitvore ESG

  • 41 Signals
  • High precision models are trained with subject matter expert human annotators with continuous QA to adjust for drift.
  • ESG sentiment scores range from -100 to +100.
  • 24x7x365 surveillance of ESG events impacting company and industry performances.
  • Aggregation of 60k unique sources of data – cleaned, normalized and ready for use.  12+ categories of content such as; News, Press Releases, Trade Journals, Transcripts, Filings and more.  
  • Up to 5 Million articles analyzed daily.

Big 4 ESG Metrics

  • 21 Core Metrics + 34 Supplemental
  • EY and a group of the world's top 140 companies got together to define common ESG metrics

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SASB Materiality Map

  • 26 Categories
  • Identifies and compares disclosure topics across different industries and sectors.

Nasdaq ESG

  • 33 Metrics
  • Designed to promote meaningful engagement between listed companies and investors, a dialogue based on the emergence of ESG data as a significant performance signal

Bloomberg ESG

  • Recently launched
  • Only focusing on Oil and Gas to measure historical environmental and social scores.

MSCI ESG Ratings

  • 37 Categories
  • Ratings are designed to help investors to understand ESG risks and opportunities and integrate these factors into their portfolio construction and management process.

S&P Global Ratings

  • 15 Categories
  • Relies on in-depth engagement with company management to assess material ESG impacts on the company, past, present and future.

Refinitiv

  • 10 themes
  • ESG Scores measure companies’ ESG performance based on reported data in the public domain across three pillars and 10 different ESG topics.

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ESG Signals and Scores

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  • NPL models trained to identify 41 unique ESG signals
  • Sentiment analysis coordinated to these signals to derive a company ESG score

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Download PDF: Converting Unstructured Data to ESG Scores

ESG Key Product Features

Bitvore ESG datasets are an outward-in dataset to measure ACTUAL company and industry ESG performance using unstructured data.  Key product features include:ß

Proprietary AI /Quality - Our NLP model has 41 signals and sub-signals, producing machine-readable ESG data. High precision models are trained with subject matter expert human annotators with continuous QA to adjust for drift.

Quantifiable data - ESG sentiment analysis provided at the article level, with the ability to roll up to company, portfolio, industry and/or market level.  ESG sentiment scores range from -100 to +100.

Virtual Real-time -  24x7x365 surveillance of ESG events impacting company and industry performances.

Aggregation of 60k unique sources of data – cleaned, normalized and ready for use.  12+ categories of content such as; News, Press Releases, Trade Journals, Transcripts, Filings and more.  Up to 5 Million articles analyzed daily.

Easy Concordance - Normalization of content to entities and symbology reference database to concord entities across company names, tickers, SEDOL, FIGI, and CUSIP/ISIN (coming in Jan 2021).

Coverage - 5 Years historical dataset, covering a universe of 400k global public and private entities.  Ex. Full coverage of the Russell 2000 and MSCI ACWI IMI and the MSCI ACWI World Indices.

Flexibility - Accessible through download files, API, or proprietary user interface. Ability to plug and play in Salesforce Einstein, Microsoft Power BI, Tableau and other data visualization tools.

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ESG Use Cases

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ESG Model: Proprietary AI

Bitvore’s dataset consists of quality data from across 60,000 unique unstructured data sources, including both publicly available data as well as licensed subscription data.  In addition to ESG signals, a sentiment score is also available at the article level, along with the relevant company metadata.  Easy concordance of your portfolios to our companies, leveraging FactSet IDs, SEDOL and FIGI identifiers as well as CUSIP/ISIN, available for customers with these respective licenses.

Bitvore’s data is accessible via API, file download, as well as via our proprietary web interface.

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Bitvore UI Examples: ESG + Sentiment

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