SUSTAINABILITY

Sustainable growth for our clients, employees, partners, investors, and communities.

VALUES THAT DEFINE OUR IDENTITY AND OPERATIONS

FactSet is committed to sustainable growth for our clients, employees, partners, investors, and our communities. We are continually monitoring and improving our social practices, our environmental and climate action, and our governance initiatives while maintaining and strengthening our relationship with our stakeholders.

Read our 2021 Sustainability Report which highlights our commitment to strong governance, impactful community engagement, and our diverse and globally inclusive employees.

A MESSAGE FROM OUR CEO

At FactSet, our purpose is to drive the investment community to see more, think bigger, and do their best work. The principles driving our sustainable development goals are built into all aspects of our business. Our people remain our most valuable asset. And it is because of our people and our culture that we will foster sustainability and positively impact the people and communities around us.

Phil Snow, CEO

OUR COMMITMENTS

FactSet is committed to being a responsible steward of the environment and climate through its environmental initiatives, actions and reporting and is currently working to set appropriate targets and reduction strategies. We are dedicated to measuring and limiting our environmental impact while also providing ESG products to help customers do the same.

FactSet aims to address environmental impacts in a collaborative way that engages all stakeholders, especially employees. By continuing to operate in a responsible way and adjusting operations based on industry best practices and identified opportunities for improvement, FactSet strives to minimize our environmental impact.

We are unified by the spirit of going above and beyond for our clients and each other. We look to foster a globally inclusive culture, enabling our people to be themselves at work and to join in, be heard, contribute, and grow. We continually seek to expand our workforce with diverse perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences.

We recognize that our best ideas can come from anyone, anywhere, at any time and help us provide the best solutions for our clients around the globe. Our inclusive work environment maximizes our diversity values, engagement, productivity, and ultimately makes FactSet a fun place to work.

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FactSet invests in its communities globally through employees’ volunteerism around four Pillars of Service: Inspire Tomorrow's Engineers, Educate to Elevate, Protect Our Environment, and Alleviate Food Insecurity. Over the past years, we offered a fully virtual employee volunteer program by transitioning to remote mentoring and other educational support programs, as well as offering new virtual learning and engagement opportunities. Through global campaigns with strategic nonprofit partners, FactSetters achieved far-ranging impacts. During fiscal 2021, FactSet supported the community by:

Assisting over 80,000 young people to gain qualifications, higher education, or employment
Providing over 1 million meals to people in need
Enabling the planting of over 14,000 trees
Creating over 100,000 data points to support environmental research and disaster relief

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FactSet strives to practice ethical, secure, and responsible governance in all aspects of business. Our goals and initiatives are championed and reflected by senior leadership across the company.

Keeping our data private and secure for our clients is a top priority at FactSet, and programs or policies are implemented to improve the privacy and security of our data.
Practicing sound business ethics is something we expect from everyone at FactSet and we strive to achieve continual improvement in this area.

Additional information on all governance policies and actions is available in our Sustainability Report.

Our ESG solutions, including Truvalue Labs, allow our clients to integrate ESG into portfolio analysis, portfolio construction, risk management, and multi-asset class reporting using data, research, and analytics for all phases of their portfolio lifecycle. FactSet makes it easy for our clients to satisfy the rapidly increasing demand for sustainable investment decisions and identification of material risks.

Clients can quickly identify the most important and material ESG impacts and incorporate an external perspective on company ESG performance with our award-winning AI and machine-learning technology. Given the ever-changing ESG landscape, our clients can rely on millions of monthly signals to keep pace with market-moving issues, engage more effectively with portfolio companies, and detect potential ESG controversies before they are announced. Through our ESG product offerings, FactSet is leading the charge in driving progress toward sustainability by making ESG data easily accessible for internal decision-making and investing.  

FactSet is committed to setting a near-term company-wide emission reduction target in line with the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi). Independent of committing to set a SBTi validated near-term target, FactSet also committed to a goal of achieving net-zero emissions by 2040.

Our path to decarbonization will be paved by our commitment to the SBTi, a global organization that provides companies and financial institutions with the framework to set emissions reduction and net-zero targets based on the latest climate science.

COMMITTED TO SUSTAINABLE GROWTH

Representative of our commitment to sustainable growth and operations, FactSet is a signatory of the UN Global Compact and UN PRI. The principles outlined in these initiatives guide FactSet's sustainability strategy and culture as well as the development and promotion of services that support our clients’ implementation of these principles. In addition, we submit annually to CDP and EcoVadis to communicate our own environmental, social, and economic progress and impacts.

The UN Global Compact is the world’s largest corporate sustainability initiative and calls for support from companies aligned to its ten principles on human rights, labor, the environment, and anti-corruption.

The United Nations-supported PRI consists of an international global network of asset managers, owners, and service providers working together to put responsible investment into practice.

CDP is a global non-profit that runs the world’s leading environmental disclosure platform. CDP drives companies and governments to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, safeguard water resources and protect forests.

EcoVadis provides sustainability ratings, enabling all businesses to reduce risk, drive performance, and improve environmental and social outcomes.

DOWNLOAD THE 2021 SUSTAINABILItY REPORT

Please find below our 2021 Sustainability Report. It outlines how we supported our colleagues, clients, and communities, as well as the steps we took to ensure the highest standards of safety, wellbeing, and responsibility.