News

On June 2nd, we’re delighted to have co-hosted the "Sustainable Finance & ESG Management Trends" seminar. Together, we explored crucial ESG management topics related to responsible investing and financing targets, taking a step further on the path of sustainable finance.

Preface In order to grow the business, the current business operators are bolder than in the past, and the financial leverage is generally higher. With the development of technology, the life cycle of products has been shortened, price fluctuations and the frequent entry and exit of competitors have increased business risks. In addition, the development […]

TEJ has successfully undergone rigorous screening processes on both platforms, providing alternative data and point-in-time data for Asian stock markets. This empowers efficient information retrieval, resolving data collection challenges in investment research.

Taiwan Economic Journal (TEJ) has released the latest 2023 TESG Rating results on May 2nd. TESG Rating is an ESG rating system tailored specifically for Taiwanese companies. It evaluates the scores of companies’ ESG performance and divides the evaluated companies into 7 levels [A+ to C-] and 3 groups [Leader/Average/Laggard] based on their TESG scores.

As of now, various alternative benchmarks have been proposed in response to the exit of LIBOR. The most widely used SOFR, TONA introduced by Japan, SONIA by the bank of England, and LPR and DR by China. However, how to apply them to outstanding financial instruments remains a question for the authorities concerned

To address the challenges of collecting ESG events and assessing their impact on companies, the TESG Event Radar provides users with quantified daily ESG event scores and offers individual event content and intensity analysis. This makes daily corporate ESG monitoring less challenging.

Quantitative Investing requires historical data to perform backtesting, examining the feasibility of our investing strategy. Therefore, it is pivotal to ensure that the data used for analyzing always aligns with the information the investors have when making their decisions. For instance, in order to pursue correctness, accounting databases update new numbers when financial restatements occur. However, using the data after financial restatement for backtesting will prevent investors from accurately reconstructing the actual market conditions at that time, and will lead to information bias, reducing the credibility of the backtesting result.

After the revenue announcement in December 2022, you can check the annual revenue status of listed companies.

In the past, Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), Principles for Sustainable Insurance (PSI), Principles for Responsible Banking (PRB) and Equator Principles (EP) promoted by the United Nations for the financial industry emphasized that ESG-related factors should be considered in investment and financing positions.To be in line with the promotion of international sustainable finance, the Financial Supervisory Commission released the "Green Finance Action Plan 3.0" in September 2022. It proposed five major promotion directions and emphasized that financial institutions should understand carbon emission conditions related to not only themselves but their investment/ financing portfolios. Evaluating and identifying the possible impact of climate change on individual financial companies and the overall market to promote the development of sustainable finance.