Product Innovation and Process Improvement for SR.ai’s Investment Research Platform

The field of responsible investing is rapidly expanding, with even greater attention on the importance of responsible investment in 2021, as seen in the aftermath of the hugely impactful COP26 summit. Directing our financial resources in a sustainable direction has the potential to have a massive impact on helping us meet the Sustainable Development Goals set forth by the UN. Though the importance of better alignment between finance and sustainability is clear, and now has a very strong consensus around it, investors still lack the right tools to support their research process in terms of sustainability. They rely on high level data that is largely known not to be reliable, which leads to massive misallocations of capital. The mission of SR.ai is to bring more rigour to the world of responsible investment, using our technology backed by peer-reviewed research in sustainable finance, produced through collaboration with the University of Toronto RiskLab quantitative finance research center, led by our CEO Alik and his PhD Supervisor Luis Seco.

The mission of SR.ai is to help the responsible investment industry in directing global financial resources towards sustainable and socially responsible companies and initiatives. The objective of the collaboration is to improve SR.ai’s product, assist in our product management and business planning process, and identify “white space” opportunities for SR.ai’s AI technologies.

Faculty Supervisor:

John-Paul Ferguson

Student:

Partner:

Responsibli (Toronto)

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Artificial Intelligence; Finance and Insurance

University:

McGill University

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