Innovest Employee Directory
Research ServicesNew York, United States51-200 Employees
Innovest is a mid-sized research services firm based in New York that focuses on how sustainability practices influence investment risk. Its Intangible Value Assessment, or IVA, provides investment managers and asset owners with a structured way to identify hidden risks and value drivers tied to environmental and social factors within portfolio companies. The offering blends qualitative sustainability research with rigorous fundamental and quantitative analysis to assess a company's capacity to manage sustainability-related investment risk. Across more than two thousand companies worldwide, the IVA framework weighs more than 120 performance factors—covering governance, human capital, product liability, environmental opportunities and risks, and other related areas—organized into four focus categories. Innovest, now part of RiskMetrics Group, has been rated as the #1 global provider of extra-financial research in Thomson Extel surveys for institutional investors for two consecutive years.