Corporate ESG Efforts Fall Short on Social Data, UBS Exec Says

Companies will need to improve employee data collection on topics including worker health and safety, to better track social issues that might be material to their bottom lines, the head of UBS’ ESG advisory group said Monday.

“I think we have fallen behind on the ‘S’ because of the general perception that you can’t quantify it quite, you can’t really tie it to financial performance quite as easily,” Aneliya Crawford said at a Practising Law Institute conference on environmental, social and governance trends in real estate M&A and REIT transactions.

“There’s very few that understand why a particular ‘S’ component ...