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Morningstar Simplifies ESG Investing with New Investable World
Data-driven digital experience highlights opportunities and trade-offs facing investors, with striking differences across managing ESG risk and making a
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[{"type":"text","content":"Data-driven digital experience highlights opportunities and trade-offs facing investors, with striking differences across managing ESG risk and making a sustainable impact \nCHICAGO, Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Morningstar, Inc. (Nasdaq: MORN), a leading independent investment research provider, today launched Investable World, a data-driven digital experience designed to make sustainable investing more understandable, engaging, and actionable for investors. Investable World allows investors to explore plainspoken themes—water, food, energy, health, and community—and weigh opportunities and trade-offs across varying investment approaches, from hedging against risk to prioritizing sustainable outcomes.\nIn addition to a wealth of research-driven education using investment examples across these easily understood themes, the digital experience includes a free, interactive data visualization tool that allows investors to filter a universe of more than 750 thematic funds globally across water, food, energy, health, and community themes according to their chosen intersecting variables of maturity, performance, risk, and sustainable impact.\n\"Investors have differing preferences around sustainable investing, but their interest in the topic is undeniably mainstream. They're talking about it with family, colleagues, and financial advisors,\" said Morningstar CEO Kunal Kapoor. \"Today's definition of what's considered uniquely 'investable' for each person varies by the investor's goals and conviction across three dimensions: performance, risk, and sustainable impact. Investable World brings transparency and accessibility to investors, empowering them to make choices that align with success on their own terms.\"\nSustainable Investing is Not 'One Size Fits All' Investable World recognizes that investors' differing motivations and degrees of conviction warrant different investing approaches, each with a unique blend of opportunities and trade-offs. The initiative builds on Morningstar and its affiliate's research across asset classes, as well as its ESG Risk Ratings and Impact Metrics. ESG Risk Ratings evaluate a company's exposure to and management of ESG risks, and Impact Metrics measure a company's revenues tied to activities across five impact themes – climate action, healthy ecosystems, resource security, basic needs, and human deve...