Verité’s Services for Investors
Verité’s Research Service provides investors with up to date, essential information from field and corporate perspectives about trends, risks and opportunities in supply chain labor and environmental compliance.
We leverage our unique access at the grassroots of globalization to identify information that assists social investors to identify leading companies and manage supply chain risks. Verité field analysts covering China, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Latin America, Europe and Middle East/Africa bring local perspectives to bear on the problems facing emerging markets listed companies as well as those which operate or source in emerging markets.
Based on our field work and collaboration with leading companies, the Research Service provides regular updates about a wide range of key issues including:
- forward-looking indicators by which investors can evaluate company performance on supply chain social and environmental issue management
- key risk management approaches embraced by leading companies
- industry or multi-stakeholder efforts which offer opportunities for leading companies
- sectoral and industry analyses of risk and opportunity
- key, emerging areas of social and environmental risk
- analysis of events and changes in key countries covered by Verité
The Verité Research Service offers briefings and regular access to Verité field experts from around the world. Membership in Verité Research Service offers:
- Two individual briefings per year covering current issues in supply chain labor and environmental issues, including best practices in corporate management of supply chain issues;
- One members-only Issue Briefing per year;
- Country Labor Risk Assessments and Labor Law Assessments for China, India and one other country of choice;
- Recognition at Verité Research Conferences (generally one per year), Verite Supplier Conferences (China and India in 2007) and Research Publications (generally two per year).
Key issues covered in recent briefings include:
- Risks associated with corporate reliance on social auditing
- Best practices in ‘vendor ownership’
- Pros and cons of newly-developed industry compliance initiatives, including Electronics Industry Code of Conduct
For more information about Verité’s Investment Research Service, please contact Dan Viederman verite@verite.org 413.253.9227.
An example of Verité's specialized research capacity is its work for CalPERS and NYCERS since 2000 in providing information and analysis of labor protections in emerging markets. CalPERS, the largest public pension fund in the United States with assets of approximately $130 billion, uses this information as one factor to determine if a country can support institutional investment. This Emerging Markets Research Project offers a ranking of 27 emerging markets countries using a quantitative assessment that employs 42 indicators of labor standards compliance, the first such framework of its kind to be used for investment purposes.
