Investors want to see environmental, social and governance aspects

Singapore

INVESTORS increasingly want to see more than just the financials of a company, and sustainability reporting can help smaller firms boost investor confidence, regulators said at a sustainability roundtable last week held by the Singapore Exchange (SGX).

The point of introducing sustainability reporting is not to create a "checkbox" mentality but to allow investors and other stakeholders to be more informed about the material risks that a company faces and how it manages them, they added.

Noting that there was increasingly more pressure for companies to engage stakeholders on sustainability, SGX chief executive officer Loh Boon Chye told a…