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CGQ for Institutional Investors

Identify Portfolio Risk-Related Governance to Drive Increased Shareholder Value

RiskMetrics Group offers institutional investors a suite of governance ratings tools and custom data feed solutions to meet their complete research and modeling needs. These services assist analysts, portfolio managers, research directors and others in evaluating the impact that a company's corporate governance structure and practices might have on a portfolio's performance.

Meeting a range of equity research and investment decision-making needs, CGQ rating and profiles can be used to analyze a company's corporate governance strengths, weaknesses and overall quality. This valuable data helps identify the worst corporate offenders and either avoid or buy, based on your investment philosophy

CGQ® is a reliable tool for institutional investors to identify portfolio risk related to governance and leveraging governance to drive increased shareholder value.

BENEFITS of CGQ for INSTITUTIONAL INVESTORS

  • Identify governance-related risk within your current holdings
  • Augment the investment research process by further refining screens
  • Incorporate governance ratings and data into your own quantitative model
  • Adjust weighting of factors to create custom ratings
  • Add CGQ® Ratings and data to internal research reports or company profiles
  • Incorporate corporate governance into due diligence for mergers & acquisitions
"Our research found a very strong relationship between governance and firm value, using CGQ® data"
~ Dr. Reena Aggerwal , Stallkamp Faculty Fellow and Professor of Finance, McDonough School of Business, Georgetown; Visiting Professor of Finance, Sloan School of Management, MIT

CGQ also serves as the foundation for the FTSE ISS Corporate Governance Index Series, six regional and country equity indices covering 24 developed countries that assists institutional investors with company analysis, portfolio management and stock selection against leading global companies with a proven record in corporate governance.

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