ClarityAI’s data is integrated on vestr’s DELTA platform and can be made available to all vestr clients and their users for comprehensive product reporting, including individual and joint ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) impact ratings. Coupled with vestr’s fully automated portfolio management tool for issuers and managers of active investment products, the world of active investment management takes one step closer to a sustainable future.

The New York-based company Clarity AI provides ESG and sustainability capabilities by using advanced technology to gather, assess, organize, clean and quality-check raw data, which is then used to align to industry consensus ESG risk analysis. They cover more than 50’000 public companies, 280’000+ funds from 198 countries and188 governments. vestr, headquartered in Switzerland, provides a cloud-based solution to some of the world’s largest structured products issuing houses. Via vestr’s market-leading platform, thousands of asset managers and hundreds of thousands of individual investors will be able to integrate ESG rating capabilities into their client reports.

Technology facilitates ESG development

With increasing investor attention towards sustainability goals of their investments, the partnership between Clarity AI and vestr is the latest example of technology facilitating this development. The additional reporting feature allows asset managers to disclose their customised investment activities transparently and in a detailed manner.  

“We are very excited to see our capabilities live in vestr's DELTA platform and to be able to bring societal impact to markets to an even broader base of clients.” said Daniel Gonzalez, Head of Distribution Platforms at Clarity AI. “We have the most comprehensive sustainability tech kit available on the market, and we are thrilled that vestr clients will have the ability to access our IndustryConsensus ESG Risk, Exposures, ESG Impact, Impact Highlights, UN SDGs, and Climate analytics and assessment capabilities.”

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Rico Blaser, Co-Founder and CEO of vestr, shares that “We anticipate our clients’ journey. Investors are increasingly applying these non-financial factors as part of their analysis process to identify material risks and growth opportunities. While ESG metrics are not part of the mandatory financial reporting, companies are increasingly making disclosures in their annual reports or in a standalone sustainability report. And we want to support this development.”

For more information, please contact vestr at info@vestr.com or visit www.vestr.com and contact Clarity AI via Edelman at clarityAI@edelmansmithfield.com.

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About Clarity AI

ClarityAI is a sustainability technology platform that uses machine learning and big data to deliver environmental and social insights to investors, organizations, and consumers. As of May 2022, Clarity AI’s platform analyzes more than 50,000companies, 280,000 funds, 198 countries and 188 local governments – 2-13 times more than any other player in the market – and delivers data and analytics for investing, corporate research, and reporting. Clarity AI has offices in NorthAmerica, Europe and the Middle East, and its client network manages tens of trillions in assets under management.

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About vestr

vestr is a Swiss FinTech company, founded in2017, with an easy-to-integrate platform that digitizes the lifecycle management of issuers’ actively managed investment products. The white-labelled software engine handles everything from portfolio rebalancing to investor reporting and audit trails, so issuers and asset managers can focus on their core competencies.

With offices in the European Union, Singapore, and Switzerland, vestr is a fast-growing technology company that aims to be the standard for active investment management.

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