Informa Financial Intelligence’s Zephyr Partners With OWL Analytics to Provide ESG Ratings & Rankings

By AIT News Desk On Apr 23, 2021

Informa Financial Intelligence’s Zephyr, a subsidiary of Informa plc and worldwide industry leader in providing data, research and insights to financial institutions, and OWL Analytics, a data and indexing company offering environmental, social, and governance (ESG) analysis, announced today its partnership. With this alliance, OWL’s ESG ratings and rankings on individual securities, mutual funds, ETFs and Zephyr’s PSN, Informa’s proprietary separately managed accounts, will be offered to Zephyr’s portfolio analytics and portfolio performance platform clients.

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OWL Analytics employs a big data approach that aggregates hundreds of sources of ESG data and leverages the collective wisdom of the worlds’ leading ESG research organizations to generate objective ESG metrics, scores, rankings, and percentiles across various common ESG themes. Zephyr will access the data from OWL Analytics through a separate partnership with Fin Mason for the use of its FinRiver API.

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“The recent momentum for ESG & impact investing has made evident the need for transparency and analytics around this investing trend,” said Chris Volpe, Head of Informa Financial Intelligence’s Zephyr business. “We view this collaboration with OWL Analytics as a natural fit, pairing a leading ESG data provider with our solutions to deliver wealth and asset managers timely and actionable ESG analysis on multiple investment vehicles including SMAs from our industry-leading PSN database. The new ESG metrics compliment Zephyr’s core features and competencies to help our clients make more well-informed investment decisions.”

“ESG is the foundation upon which OWL Analytics was built and our goal is to arm clients with a diverse range of ESG insights that help them meet their sustainability mandates as they continue to expand and evolve,” said Benjamin Webster, CEO & President at OWL Analytics. “Partnering with Zephyr allows us to continue this mission and provide a deeper ESG consensus.”