Amsterdam-based ESG research firm Sustainalytics and San Francisco-based proxy advisory firm Glass Lewis are joining forces to offer raw corporate governance data on 20,000 companies to institutional investors.
Sustainalytics announced Monday it is now offering monthly raw data from Glass Lewis on a variety of corporate governance metrics to institutional investors that want to incorporate this sort of data directly into their internal systems. The information includes: director elections, board independence, executive and director compensation and shareholder proposal information.
The data will enable investors to identify possible governance issues, perform portfolio-risk analysis and inform their proxy voting decisions, the firms say.
“Corporate governance is pertinent to so many investment processes,” says Cheryl Gustitus, executive vice president of marketing and strategic initiatives at Sustainalytics, in a statement. “Increasingly, our clients are ingesting large, sophisticated data sets to drive myriad internal workflows and to support important decision-making.”