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The Obermatt ESG framework, developed together with nine Swiss industry leaders, addresses ESG reporting, ESG performance measurement and linking ESG criteria to executive compensation. Watch the video or contact us to learn more about our findings on best practices in reporting and compensation.

The Obermatt Triple Bottom Line ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Framework uncovers four key learnings.

Three key ESG takeaways for companies to take control of their ESG performance reporting and executive compensation.

Obermatt’s five-step process helps companies better report and reward for ESG performance. It starts with the selection of ESG priorities and ends with ESG executive compensation.

The Obermatt ESG Framework helps companies define and report on ESG metrics and to build them into executive compensation.

Obermatt makes Triple Bottom Line ESG performance simple and intuitive, also for use in executive compensation.

Consolidating ESG performance correctly isn’t easy. Rather than having an adverse effect on the corporate performance story, done well, it can lead to better ESG reporting and rewards.

Similar to many factors that go into calculating company profit, ESG performance also has many components. Unfortunately, many relevant ESG metrics get overlooked.

Despite pressure to deliver strong ESG performance, most companies aren’t telling as strong of a story as they could. Focusing on too few ESG metrics may be missing the big picture.

Many companies only focus on a few ESG metrics. The opportunity: include more ESG topics that reflect the company strategy and strengthen your story to shareholders.

How should companies assess social impact value? Obermatt believes impact valuations should rely on rating agency assessments, not an assignment of a fictitious financial value.

A company’s ESG priorities rarely align with the priorities of ESG rating agencies or organizations. Companies should define their own ESG performance reporting.

The Obermatt Triple Bottom Line ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Framework uncovers four key learnings.

Our summer break view on the Obermatt core business which is helping corporations communicate their sustainability (ESG) performance to the outside. Watch how companies use the Obermatt Triple Bottom line to show their contributions to employees, customers, society and the environment.

Companies must take their ESG performance into their own hands. This is the goal of Obermatt's Triple Bottom Line ESG project. The approach is presented in this video: 1. Structure of the ESG ecosystem, 2. Development approach ESG Triple Bottom Line system, 3. ESG performance presentation in the GRI report, 4. Obermatt Climate Index.

If you don't try it yourself, you can't have a say. Many who have tried it are surprised how interesting and how much fun investing in stocks really is.

ESG is becoming increasingly important in investment; and with it, ESG-based executive compensation. Obermatt's core business is measuring performance for large corporations and mid-sized companies. Obermatt CEO Dr. Hermann J. Stern explains the current challenges and their implications for investors.

Investors with a low loss tolerance should not manage their investments themselves, because they will sell when the stock market crashes and only buy again when the stock markets are more expensive. So how can you increase your loss tolerance?

Investment returns are dangerous because good returns can mean that the strategy is just reaching the end of its life cycle. Furthermore, the risk is also usually shown in a misleading way.

Good people invest in good companies, also in an ethical sense of the word. But this is not really the case when ESG funds are used, because ESG criteria suffer from great distortions.

You have to interpret ESG criteria yourself and use them in your direct investments because official ESG ratings and ESG funds are hardly what they promise.

The returns of ESG investments are neither better nor worse than those of other investments, as Obermatt CEO Hermann Stern shows in this presentation.

Dr. Hermann J. Stern speaks at the University of St. Gallen Oikos Conference 2019 on ecological and socially responsible investing. Such SRI / ESG investments have no yield disadvantages and should not be made with ESG funds, because these funds are not what we expect under ESG.