Results for each research report are aggregated at the level of research provider to identify the highest ranked organisations. These institutions are commended for EAI commission allocation.
Research reports are evaluated by EAI on the basis of the following key criteria:
1- Scope of extra-financial issues covered
- Coverage of relevant extra-financial issues
2- Overall presentation and originality
- Includes an assessment of the user
- friendliness, originality and transparency of research outputs
3- Investment relevance of sector and issue analysis
- Thoroughness of top-down analysis
- Quantitative modelling of sector impacts
- Allocation to both long- and short-term horizons
4- Comparative company analysis
- Analysis of EFI impacts on company-specific investment value drivers
- Integration into stock valuation
- Ranking of companies, integration of EFI analysis in stock recommendations.
5- Coverage of research universe
- Coverage of relevant sectors
- Coverage of global investible universes.
