Your global radar for ESG Controversies

Track controversial events that may impact the performance and reputation of 7 Million public and private companies.

Adverse media detection across 40,000 curated sources

Research shows that excluding high-controversy stocks and bonds boosts returns and reduces risk, but negative news is hard to detect at scale. RavenPack Controversy News help discretionary and quantitative investors inform their decisions with daily streamlined reports of controversial events.

Scores are powered by a transparent framework that processes news systematically for consistent information handling and predictability. They are delivered contextually, with clear categories defined in a proprietary taxonomy of 171 ESG controversy event categories including:

  • Environmental impact
  • Environmental Compliance
  • Community
  • workforce
  • Business ethics
  • Consumers & products
  • Accidents

These scores can help quantitative and discretionary investors:

See it in action

Controversy news are delivered daily, and each week we publish the list of companies that have seen the largest change in score.

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Computing controversy News

Controversy news are the outcome of a multi-step process including:

Content Collection

RavenPack analyzes textual content from high-quality sources to identify events that match any of the targeted categories. Documents considered include English and non-English news in 13 languages, and social sources.

Information Extraction

Additional filters ensure the data remains focused on contemporary observations. The exact process is fully documented.

Signal Construction

Controversy factors are then produced for each detected company, 7 times per day, at midnight UTC and at the open & close in New York, Paris, and Tokyo. The score itself is on a positive, open-ended scale that quantifies the magnitude of a controversy along with its relevance in the media. It is influenced by the volume of news behind a controversy, the number of languages where it is picked up, the same for number of sources, its novelty, and whether the controversy is able to carry a headline. The signal also applies a decay to aging controversy reports.

Factor Composition

Controversy Factors are gathered in daily files that detail all the companies for which controversies have been detected on a given universe.

Controversy News Facts
Purpose
  • Leverage early warning of controversies to mitigate risk
  • Boost existing signals and strategies
FrequencyDaily
HistorySince 2002
UniverseEquities, Bonds
Content
  • When the factor was produced.
  • The company, as name and RavenPack entity identifier.
  • Taxonomy Level — the level of the taxonomy used for classifying the controversy score. It could be at the level of individual categories, groups, pillars, or themes.
  • Factor name — the name of the factor, which refers to the specific taxonomy value within the ESG taxonomy level.
  • Factor score — the numerical score value representing the computed factor for the given entity.
Delivery RavenPack, Snowflake

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