6 June 2023, Copenhagen/London
Matter, a Denmark-based sustainable investment insights provider, and 2RSquared, a cloud-based SaaS platform for investment design and delivery, are proud to announce a sustainability data integration partnership.
With this integration, users of 2RSquared’s technology platform ‘LAB’ will have access to Matter’s sustainability insights. LAB offers research capabilities and the ability to create tradeable investment strategies incorporating various sources of data, servicing different styles of investment management.
"Integrating with 2RSquared is a natural fit for Matter" said Niels Fibæk Jensen, CEO of Matter. "2RSquared’s platform is targeting a broad set of users from asset managers to wealth managers, banks and asset owners, and our data will help provide them with the sustainability insights they need to create sustainable and effective investment strategies. Further, our mission is to democratise access to transparent, nuanced sustainability insights, and this integration with 2RSquared enables Matter’s insights to reach a wider audience and to broaden the awareness of the work being done by Matter."
Raj Amin, CEO of 2RSquared said: “ESG and sustainability are increasingly important elements of investment strategies, and the inclusion of Matter’s insights on to our platform LAB adds greater sophistication to our users looking to create sustainable investment strategies. LAB streamlines the investment design and delivery process for any kind of ESG integration into an investment strategy. The inclusion of Matter ESG data on our platform will make it easier for our users to understand the ESG profile of their strategies, make informed decisions and make their portfolios fully auditable regarding the chosen ESG implementation method.”
About Matter: Matter is a financial technology company specialising in the provision of sustainability insights to the financial industry, based in Copenhagen. Matter offers a wide range of data and solutions which enable investors to better understand the sustainability of their investments, beyond ESG ratings. Matter uses the power of collective intelligence and pioneering technology to provide insights which are granular, transparent and accountable, representing the real-world impact of investments, aligned to leading regulatory and industry-led frameworks, including SFDR and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
About 2RSquared: 2RSquared offers LAB – a next generation SaaS platform for investment strategy or index design and delivery. In a world where investing is increasingly driven by data and computational power, favouring the largest asset managers, 2RSquared empowers all investment managers to bridge the gap from data to performance with a powerful, easy to use and cost-effective solution. LAB is a high spec cloud native technology with a simple no-code interface, the ability to perform highly complex calculations very fast and in-built visualisations at every step. LAB enables investment managers to transform their clients’ individual goals, whether for risk/return or ESG into customised investment solutions, where pre-trade, the client can be brought digitally into the investment design journey and post-trade, the client can analyse their investments interactively and on-demand. 2RSquared makes scalable personalised investments possible for the first time.