Over the past 3 weeks we’ve focused on the Social components of OWL Analytics’ ESG composite datasets, including an analysis of historical trends in “Human Rights” and “Employee Diversity & Rights” factors. We have been able to uncover some promising evidence that companies ranked high on social factors also exhibited stronger performance historically. As we had discussed in the kick-off issue of our series, we believe that the investment community is in an especially unique position to enact change by choosing where we deploy our capital.

Last week, we reiterated our view that the investment community is uniquely positioned to effect positive change by deploying capital in companies that score well on Environmental, Social, and Governance factors. To that end, we walked through the framework of a high quality ESG dataset, courtesy of our partners at OWL Analytics (shown again below).
Today, we’ll highlight how the Human Rights factor has historically performed (2015-2019), due to it having the most pronounced alpha out of all of the Social indicators over the past five years.

This past week we have been both outraged and heart-broken watching protests against racial injustice unfold across the country. We at Omega Point stand in full solidarity with the black community to fight systemic racism. We pledge to do our part to listen and to learn more about how we can impact change using the resources and tools available to us within the investment management industry.

We believe that the investment community is in an especially unique position to enact change by choosing where we deploy our capital.

We’re excited to announce that we’ve recently added Wolfe Research’s new US Broad Equity Model to the Omega Point platform. Our team has already taken a deep dive into the new model, which includes fundamental, technical, and alternative data factors, and it’s clear that it can be of significant value to any investor seeking to better explain systematic risk and return dispersion in the US markets.

To learn more about Wolfe’s US Broad Equity model, we encourage you to sign up for a joint webinar we are holding with Wolfe Research at 12pm ET on Thursday, June 11.