Morningstar Publishes Fourth Annual Company Sustainability Report - Cyber-Guardian

CHICAGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–
Morningstar, Inc. (Nasdaq: MORN), a number one supplier of impartial funding insights, immediately printed its fourth annual Company Sustainability Report, inspecting the corporate’s efforts to include sustainability practices and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) information throughout the agency.

“At Morningstar, we imagine selling transparency, rising entry to helpful information, and empowering selection will assist profitable outcomes for buyers,” mentioned Kunal Kapoor, chief govt officer at Morningstar. “This report is one instance that exhibits our firm values aren’t simply phrases on a web page; they information our actions, each massive choices and day by day habits throughout your complete agency, with the objective of rising worth via these actions over time.”

Morningstar continues to guide in advancing its world pay fairness program.

• Morningstar’s 2023 adjusted pay fairness examination resulted in pay adjustments for the same variety of workers in contrast with the 2022 examine; nevertheless, the quantity spent to remediate impacted workers decreased by 40%.

• Additionally in 2023, Morningstar made pay ranges seen for roles throughout North America. In early 2024, every worker’s pay vary for his or her function was made out there globally.

• As certainly one of few US-based monetary companies companies to reveal world pay hole information, Morningstar was awarded the Truthful Pay Certificates by Truthful Pay Office for its continued dedication to pay transparency and pay fairness.

The Firm superior its environmental impression administration program and related disclosures included within the Company Sustainability Report.

• Utilizing its personal Low Carbon Transition Scores and Bodily Local weather Danger Metrics, Morningstar analyzed the corporate’s carbon publicity and bodily local weather dangers to evaluate its alignment with a net-zero pathway and consider potential dangers to properties and property, respectively. These options search to empower buyers to make knowledgeable funding choices.

• Morningstar expanded emissions disclosures to element rising areas of strategic precedence and offered buyers and stakeholders with extra information on its efforts. Morningstar now discloses Scope 2 location- and market-based emissions and for the primary time, studies waste and water consumption information.

• Morningstar printed an Environmental Assertion detailing its environmental administration practices, expectations, and the way it plans to advance impression discount efforts in a way in keeping with the corporate targets.

• Morningstar is an lively member within the Internet-Zero Knowledge Public Utility (NZDPU), the primary free, world, centralized database of personal sector local weather information, which went dwell in 2023.

“Our strategy to sustainability technique and administration is guided by Morningstar’s long-standing dedication to transparency,” mentioned Gabriel Presler, head of company sustainability at Morningstar. “This yr we continued to deal with human capital administration, certainly one of Morningstar’s most materials ESG matters, and superior on our decarbonization targets. We’re dedicated to creating year-over-year progress in our efforts to construct a extra sustainable enterprise and office by turning our personal ESG information and analysis lens on ourselves.”

Morningstar additionally immediately printed a sequence of different studies, together with its first
Activity Drive for Local weather-Associated Monetary Disclosures Report
, which displays the Firm’s dedication to align its reporting frameworks and requirements with business finest practices and supply its workers, shareholders, and different stakeholders with information pertaining to its local weather efforts.

The Firm’s first
United Kingdom (UK) Gender Pay Hole Report
discloses pay hole information for the complete UK workforce, showcasing that Morningstar’s commitments to range and fairness prolong to colleagues globally. Morningstar’s third annual
Sustainability Accounting Requirements Board Report
discloses information that the Worldwide Monetary Reporting Requirements deems materials to the Firm’s monetary progress.

For extra about Morningstar’s company sustainability efforts, go to https://www.morningstar.com/firm/corporate-sustainability.

About Morningstar, Inc.

Morningstar, Inc. is a number one supplier of impartial funding insights in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. The Firm presents an in depth line of services for particular person buyers, monetary advisors, asset managers and homeowners, retirement plan suppliers and sponsors, and institutional buyers within the debt and personal capital markets. Morningstar offers information and analysis insights on a variety of funding choices, together with managed funding merchandise, publicly listed firms, personal capital markets, debt securities, and real-time world market information. Morningstar additionally presents funding administration companies via its funding advisory subsidiaries, with roughly $286 billion in property below advisement and administration as of Dec. 31, 2023. The Firm operates via wholly- or majority-owned subsidiaries in 32 international locations. For extra data, go to www.morningstar.com/firm. Observe Morningstar on X @MorningstarInc.

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