ICE’s Social Impact Data provides socioeconomic and demographic insight on the municipal bond and mortgage-backed security (MBS) markets, enhancing the decision-making process for investors as they execute sustainable and socially-conscious strategies.
The dataset, which includes scores and underlying health, demographic, and geospatial metrics, helps quantify the potential social impact of a financial investment in a community. It helps identify communities with greater opportunity for improvement so that targeted investments can bring resources to more vulnerable and marginalized communities - a key input for investors to measure and address progress on social and climate justice.
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Key Features
- Extensive security-level coverage across fixed income assets classes, including 95% coverage of the ~$4T municipal bond market and U.S. MBS universe.
- The Social Impact Score is a 0-100 metric that investors can use to evaluate the potential socioeconomic benefit of an investment in a specific project or geographic area. This score – which is a combination of seven impact-oriented component scores – quantifies the demographic profile and financial resources of residents residing in regions of varying spatial scales, from community-level to national-level.
- The social impact component scores quantify socioeconomic characteristics of populations across 7 key categories: education levels, employment mix, racial composition, adverse health challenges, affluence levels, rates of poverty, and affordable housing issues.
- Fixed income securities with higher Social Impact Scores indicate increased potential socioeconomic benefits to the communities inhabiting geographic regions linked to those investments.
- Granular socioeconomic and demographic metrics reflect detailed residential and workplace population characteristics.
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