Inspire Invest
Business Investment in Johannesburg

InSpire Group, InSpire Invest, InSpire Foundation for Business and Society.

Although there is an increasing awareness of ESG (Environment, Social and Governance) issues among financial analysts, there is still a lot of confusion with regard to the materiality of these issues on companies' valuation and how to integrate them into their analysis. Inspire Invest has since 2003 built a core competency to bridge the gap between financial analysis and corporate governance research providers and the end users in the investment community. Our objective is to assist fund managers to translate and integrate extra-financial research into their investment strategies. InSpire Invest is a dedicated advisory group specialised in extra-financial and corporate governance company assessment. Together our team members combine experience within the investment services sector and expert knowledge in ESG and sustainable development themes. Our focus is on defining in-depth sector risk and opportunity profiles for ESG issues, enabling our clients to bring into perspective analysis received from research providers. However, our services can also be adapted to clients with existing research provider contracts. This process allows us to develop a third-generation interpretative analysis of corporate risks and opportunities related to intangible assets.We have been working for large banks, such as Credit Agricole, specialized agencies, such as the IFC Corporate Governance Forum, and service providers, such as DNV. Our products and services can be used for all kinds of funds; equity funds, bond funds, hedge funds, private equity and venture funds and so on. We have extensive analytical skills and can easily adapt our coverage to follow any specialised markets or sectors. We also advise on overall strategy and are developing new internet-based tools for SRI research. Development of qualitative and quantitative extra-financial methodology. This service aims to assist fund/hedge fund managers and private equity firms integrate an extra-financial analysis into their portfolio selection process by providing a tool to rank companies on the basis of their management of risk and future business opportunities posed by extra-financial issues. The methodology developed can be tailored to reflect the particularity of individual investment strategies. Our sector risk reports outline the main risks and opportunities posed by extra financial issues at present and in the future for individual sectors, as well as outlining the best company performers and laggards within the sector. This service is intended to assist fund managers in identifying those extra financial risks most material to company performance, as well as highlighting upcoming risks. These sector risks assessments are updated regularly with input from our work undertaken under the INAVAL project, which includes contributions from sector experts, industry specialists, financial and extra-financial analysts and academics. We believe this work reflects more accurate assessment of the materiality of ESG issues. Risk assessment analysis for particular sustainable development themes (i.e. In order to assist fund/hedge fund managers and private equity firms with the development of theme-related funds, we have developed a research service, which includes the identification of the main extra-financial risks and opportunities for that theme as well as a selection of companies to be included in the portfolio. Translation of extra financial data provider into up to date data. Up-to-date company assessments: It is Inspire Invest's added value to provide clients with up to date company assessments. Inspire Invest's has developed a service whereby we provide clients scores reflecting the latest company behaviour and events which may have a material impact on the company. This service can be adapted regardless of client's extra-financial research provider.