HSU ESG Award 2025
恒生大學ESG大獎2025
Guidelines
Eligibility
Only companies on the iScore list below could apply for the award.
Only companies on the iScore list below could apply for the award.
Only companies on the iScore list below could apply for the award.
Only companies on the Media Coverage list below could apply for the award.
Application deadline
To be anounced
Application procedures
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Complete the General Application Form (please click here).
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The ESG Award Secretariat will send an email with the link to the Excellent Global payment gateway to the contact person proposed in the General Application Form within two working days. A non-refundable deposit of HKD 1,000 for each entry (screen capture of payment acknowledgement or deposit slip required as proof) is required to proceed with the full application through our online system. The deposit payment will be applied to the total application fee after your application is complete.
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After the deposit payment is confirmed, the secretariat will send an email to the contact person proposed in the General Application Form with the link and assigned security code to fill the online application form for each specific award category.
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Fill the form using the assigned security code and all required information with supporting documents when appropriate.
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After the form is completed, each entry must be accompanied by an application fee. The entry will not be formally evaluated without a proof of total payment receipt. Payment methods: a) Cheque deposit payable to: 灼見名家傳媒有限公司 or Master Insight Media Limited; b) FPS transfer to FPS ID: 166176610 or c) Bank transfer to account HSBC: 023-209240-838. Please email the proof of payment (copy of bank-in slip/e-receipt/etc.) to Master Insight (contact@master-insight.com) for record, otherwise the entry will not be formally evaluated.
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For the details of the application fee for each award category and entry, please contact the Master Insight sales team (Tel: 2818 3638).
iScore List
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Methodology behind the iScore
The Aggregate Confusion Hypothesis* by the MIT research team suggests that the rating divergence comes from 3 aspects: Scope, Rater, and Weighting differences. We argue that ESG analysts employed by different ESG data providers are subjected to regional and corporate culture influence in rating companies, leaving to the divergence.
For each stock, we compute a divergence factor based on performance based ESG scores of each firm from various providers of different regions to capture the divergence effect. With a proprietary Peer-Based ESG (PBESG) analysis framework, we compute the iScore for each firm by scaling the ESG rating by the divergence factor generated.
*Berg, F., Kölbel, J.F., Rigobon, R., 2022. Aggregate Confusion: The Divergence of ESG Ratings. Review of Finance 26, 1315–1344. https://doi.org/10.1093/rof/rfac033
Media Coverage List
The Media Coverage list can be sorted by each firm characteristic by desktop browser only.
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Capturing the Media Coverage Sentiment
Based on media coverage of ESG/sustainability topics, the commercial data providers employ Natural Language Processing (NLP) algorithms to capture the positive and negative sentiment of the articles based on a prescribed list of ESG key words. We then construct a net score which reflects how professionals perceive the ESG information from the media coverage in a given time period.