Asset managers are paying more attention to datasets that can help them suss out the social and governance factors that are materially relevant to their investing processes, citing a shift toward those factors during the COVID-19 era.

On 16 July, Neudata’s VP of ESG research, Julia Asri Meigh, hosted a masterclass that explained the changing attitudes toward ESG investing during the COVID-19 outbreak. She was joined by Mamadou-Abou Sarr, CEO of V-Square Quantitative Management, and Slavek Roller, senior ESG data scientist at NN Investment Partners.