Over the last decade, awareness surrounding ESG issues has been growing, with investors increasingly urged to incorporate non-financial information into their analyses and investment solutions. To feed this evolution, investors first need to understand what is at stake and gather an expanding range of companies’ data on a diversity of fields and coverage.

Africa offers exciting opportunities for any investor who are seeking above-average risk-adjusted returns.

By June 2019, the Member States of the European Union should have completed the transposition into each national law of the Shareholder Directive II (SRD 2), natural evolution of the 2007 SRD1.