Florian Berg

The MIT Sloan Sustainability Initiative’s Aggregate Confusion Project won the Institutional Investor’s 2022 Allocators’ Choice Award for Partnership of the Year.

The MIT award winners are:
Jason Jay (team leader; director of the Sustainability Initiative; senior lecturer);
Florian Berg (project co-founder; research scientist);
Julian Koelbel (project co-founder; research affiliate);
and Roberto Rigobon (Society of Sloan Fellows Professor of Management and Professor of Applied Economics).

In addition to the MIT team, the initiative includes the Massachusetts Pension Reserves Investment Management Board, Qontigo, MFS Investment Management, AQR Capital Management, and Asset Management One. The project works to reduce the level of noise in ESG (environmental, social, and governance) measurement by improving data available to managers and allocators.  More information about the MIT Sloan Sustainability Initiative’s Aggregate Confusion Project is online here.

MIT Sloan Professor Roberto Rigobon and two MIT researchers – Florian Berg and Julian Koelbel – have won two awards from the Global Research Alliance for Sustainable Finance and Investment (GRASFI): the 2020 GRASFI Best Paper Prize and the 2020 GRASFI Best Paper Prize on ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) Standards. Their dual-winning paper is entitled “Aggregate Confusion: The Divergence of ESG Ratings.”
Videos of the award presentations (September 2020), including the authors discussing their winning paper, are at: 2020 GRASFI Best Paper Prize and 2020 GRASFI Best Paper Prize on ESG Standards.