Forty years ago Joe Mansueto sorted mutual fund reports on his apartment floor and decided regular people deserved the same research Wall Street kept for itself. The five-star rating that came out of it now shapes how trillions of dollars get invested.
IdealRatings is a San Francisco-based financial data and technology company that helps investors screen and rate securities against ESG, responsible-investment, and Shariah-compliance standards. Founded in 2006, it operates two business lines - ESG & Responsible Investment Solutions and Islamic Finance Solutions - covering a global universe of equities, fixed income, REITs and Sukuk. Its subscription, web-based tools and datasets are licensed by asset managers, banks, brokerages, stock exchanges and index providers in over 25 countries, and power benchmarks including the Bloomberg Shariah Sukuk indices and the FTSE IdealRatings Islamic index series.