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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.

The International Energy Agency (IEA) released the "Net Zero by 2050: A Roadmap for the Global Energy Sector" report in 2021. More than 130 countries around the world have responded. The same year, my government revised its long-term carbon reduction target to net zero carbon emissions in 2050. And continue to amend the law to improve the climate legal environment, expecting to be in line with international standards and continue to promote sustainable development plans.

With the ESG trend, countries worldwide are setting carbon emission targets one after another, so the trend is to develop sustainable energy. Sustainable energy includes renewable energy, green energy, clean energy, etc. Renewable energy can be considered sustainable energy generated through renewable resources; green energy refers to the energy that provides maximum environmental benefits, and clean energy refers to power generation that cleans the air.

The revenue announcement in September 2022 was completed. Although TAIEX declined, listed companies performed well in the third quarter.