How investors use SASB Standards

The use of SASB Standards in disclosures to investors over time, and other efforts, has improved the availability of consistent, comparable and reliable data on the sustainability-related risks and opportunities that are likely to affect cash flows, access to finance and cost of capital.

SASB Standards are also useful to investors, independent of disclosure. SASB Standards enable ESG integration across multiple asset classes:

Public equities

Data-driven corporate engagement
Input to fundamental equity analysis
Constructing ESG-integrated indexes

Corporate fixed income

Input to credit analysis and internal credit rating assignment
Assess quality of disclosure for insight into risk

Private equity

Identify focus areas for fund and portfolio company due diligence
Report performance on material ESG topics to GPs and LPs

Real assets

Use SASB’s Infrastructure sector standards to guide risk assessment and performance reporting for real assets

Case studies

For examples of ESG integration in action, read these case studies. We have published dozens of cases by investors across asset classes, strategies and markets—find them in the Knowledge Hub.