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Aggregate Confusion 2.0: Can AI Deliver Consistent ESG Ratings?
In his latest blog, Aymen Karoui extends the well-known “aggregate confusion” debate into the AI era by testing four leading LLMs ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Copilot—on ESG ratings for the world’s 100 largest companies. The result: AI-generated ESG scores diverge almost as much as human providers, with cross-correlations ranging only from 0.24 to 0.59, but without any transparent methodology to explain why. The piece argues that while AI can massively scale data collection and anomaly detection, robust ESG ratings still require human-defined frameworks, clear indicators, and explainable, double-materiality-based methods—positioning AI as an enabler, not a replacement, for rigorous ESG analysis.
VPS Pension Market Trade Fair 2026: Co-Exhibiting with SIX
On 10–11 June 2026, Inrate joined the Pension Market Trade Fair & Vorsorge-Symposium at Messe Zürich, organised by VPS Verlag Personalvorsorge und Sozialversicherung AG (vps.epas), a leading Swiss platform for occupational pensions and social insurance. As a co-exhibitor alongside SIX, we showcased how our recently developed suite of 10 thematic ESG indices supports Swiss institutional investors in translating sustainability goals into investable, index-based strategies. The event attracted a strong mix of pension fund representatives, trustees, and advisors, and provided highly engaged discussions around practical implementation of sustainable benchmarks and regulatory-aligned reporting for the 2nd pillar.
New Stewardship Partnership: Inrate & Governance & Values for the DACH Region
Inrate has entered a strategic partnership with Governance & Values, a Germany-based stewardship specialist, to deliver independent, outcome-oriented ESG stewardship services for institutional investors across the DACH region. The collaboration combines Inrate’s sustainability analytics, double-materiality-based ESG Impact Ratings, and proxy voting and engagement programs with Governance & Values’ governance expertise, issuer dialogue, and digital stewardship infrastructure. Together, the firms offer a regionally grounded alternative for investors seeking scalable engagement, transparent reporting, and alignment with evolving frameworks such as SRD II and SFDR, without relying on global one-size-fits-all templates.