Employee Activism: From Risk to Asset
INVESTORS USE A RANGE OF
SOURCES TO EVALUATE ESG
Percent who say each information source is useful for evaluating ESG performance, among U.S. investors
Somewhat useful
Very useful
98
71
63
Investor days
and/or
conference
presentations
97
40
96
96
96
96
95
95
95
9
70
64
58
4
64
=4
94
33
93
00
70
71
67
Report
summary/fact
sheet
Earnings calls ESG microsite
C-suite
communications
(e.g.,
presentations)
PDF ESG report Digital web report
Social media Financial filings
(LinkedIn, Twitter, (10-K, proxy)
blog posts)
2021 Edelman Trust Barometer Special Report: Institutional Investors. Q22_5: Using the scale below, please rate the utility of each of the following sources of information for evaluating a
company's ESG performance. For each one, please indicate how useful each format is using a 4-point scale where 1 means "not at all useful" and 4 means "very useful". Shown T2B Agree.
United States n=100
Edelman
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