Get your sustainable investment strategy RITE

Our Responsible Investment Total Evaluation (RITE) tool helps you visualize your portfolio through an environmental, social, and governance (ESG) lens and define a transformative sustainable investment approach. We can support your sustainability journey with actionable next steps and periodic reviews of your progress against peers. 

Assess your sustainable investing approach

Businesses and governments globally realize the urgent imperative to embrace sustainability, and institutional investors around the world have a pivotal role to play when it comes to making a transformational impact. As an investor, you should assess how comprehensively ESG considerations are being blended into your current investment framework and how this can be monitored over time. You can then identify any gaps or areas of concern and map them to potential action items. Doing so will allow you to understand what these gaps mean for your overall investment portfolio strategy and specific allocations.

Evolve your sustainable investment strategy 

We help forward-thinking organizations enact positive changes, even when they don’t know where to start. That’s why we developed our Responsible Investing Total Evaluation (RITE) tool to assist you, as an institutional investor, in assessing your current sustainable investment strategies, identify action items and put plans in place to enable verifiable progress.

How the RITE tool works

Three simple steps we follow to help you take action 

Assessment against sustainable investment and ESG best practice indicators to understand how an organization is currently integrating sustainability and ESG considerations into investment decision-making. 

Within each of Mercer’s Sustainable Investment Pathway categories, RITE gives a list of recommended action items. These are actions, aligned with clients’ objectives and priorities, that organizations can take to advance their ESG integration in accordance with their specific priorities. 

Provide insights on an organization’s positioning relative to peers as well as how their governance framework and investment process can evolve. 
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