MI x HSU ESG Award 2025
灼見名家 X恒生大學ESG大獎2025
Eligibility
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ESG Grand Award
Only companies on the iScore list below could apply for the award.
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Environmental Pillar High Achiever Award
Only companies on the iScore list below could apply for the award.
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Social Pillar High Achiever Award
Only companies on the iScore list below could apply for the award.
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ESG Corporate Communication Award
Only companies on the Media Coverage list below could apply for the award.
Application deadline
To be announced
Application procedures
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Complete the General Application Form.
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The ESG Award Secretariat (Excellent Global) will send an email with the link to the payment gateway to the contact person proposed in the General Application Form within two working days. A non-refundable deposit of HKD 1,000 for each entry (screen capture of payment acknowledgement or deposit slip required as proof) is required to proceed with the full application through our online system. The deposit payment will be applied to the total application fee after your application is complete.
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After the deposit payment is confirmed, the secretariat will contact you for the next steps of submitting your application documentations.
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After application is summitted, each entry must be accompanied by an application fee. The entry will not be formally evaluated without a proof of total payment receipt. Payment methods to Excellent Global will be provided when appropriate.
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For more details, please contact the Excellent Global (Tel: pending).
Application fee table
iScore List
—— 2024 list for reference only. 2025 list to be updated ——
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Methodology behind the iScore
The Aggregate Confusion Hypothesis* by the MIT research team suggests that the rating divergence comes from 3 aspects: Scope, Rater, and Weighting differences. We argue that ESG analysts employed by different ESG data providers are subjected to regional and corporate culture influence in rating companies, leaving to the divergence.
For each stock, we compute a divergence factor based on performance based ESG scores of each firm from various providers of different regions to capture the divergence effect. With a proprietary Peer-Based ESG (PBESG) analysis framework, we compute the iScore for each firm by scaling the ESG rating by the divergence factor generated.
*Berg, F., Kölbel, J.F., Rigobon, R., 2022. Aggregate Confusion: The Divergence of ESG Ratings. Review of Finance 26, 1315–1344. https://doi.org/10.1093/rof/rfac033
Media Coverage List
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Capturing the Media Coverage Sentiment
Based on media coverage of ESG/sustainability topics, the commercial data providers employ Natural Language Processing (NLP) algorithms to capture the positive and negative sentiment of the articles based on a prescribed list of ESG key words. We then construct a net score which reflects how professionals perceive the ESG information from the media coverage in a given time period.