Forward Analytics is a transition-tech intelligence firm that provides data, models and analytics to support financial decisions in the net-zero transition.
Our analytics enable our clients to anticipate the risks and opportunities of uncertain and disorderly transition dynamics on the firm and asset-level to successfully navigate financial portfolios toward resilient performance.
Our solution is available as a SaaS risk management platform, as curated data collection, or as licensed models for internal risk management use. Our transition model is grounded in rigorous research and co-developed with academics at the University of Oxford.
The net-zero transition will entail periods of unprecedented shocks, volatile markets and system-wide disruptions.
The risks of transition are complex and unique, and with an elevated uncertainty that current risk management frameworks often miss. Virtually every firm and every sector globally will need to undergo unprecedented structural transformations.
US$200 trillion of global financial stock and capital is intermediated through the world’s banks and capital markets and needs to be managed through the transition.
Forward Analytics combines AI-based technology with state-of-the art economic and financial models to evaluate transition risks and opportunities. Two solutions:
Our proprietary Integrated Transition Assessment Model (ITAM) uses multi-factor probabilistic simulations and scenario analysis to evaluate the impact of net-zero targets, technological innovation, regulations, market sentiment and demand shifts, as well as policy trends on financial performance, and firms’ risk distribution over time. ITAM takes into consideration firms’ financial ability to transition, their unique balance sheet and physical asset structure, cost-competitiveness and wider market exposure.
ITAM leverages our unique dynamically-evolving Digital Transition Twin of the global economy. This centralised relationship database combines structured and unstructured data for firms and physical assets, ownership structure, company financials and balance sheet information, and forward-looking indicators from firm reports.
40k
public and private parent companies and subsidiaries
460k
physical assets, including characteristics such as emissions profile, location, cost profile, production and capacity
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Climate-critical sectors including oil and gas, coal mining, mineral extraction, power and energy, manufacturing (steel, cement, aluminium, petrochemicals), and transportation (aviation, shipping, automotive).
77%
of global emission represented
Majority
of global market indices and market capitalisation captured
Banks, Asset Managers and Asset Owners use our forward-looking decision support solution to understand firm, asset and portfolio risk characteristics.
Our scalable and extensible technology driven approach makes our offering relevant across a range of transition intelligence use cases.
This includes benchmarking in-house portfolio risk transition analytics, identify firm and sector outliers, informing TCFD and sustainability reporting, inform financing strategies, as well as streamlining financial due diligence processes and easing the pre-screening of firms for investment.
Our product suite, data and analytics are available through our licensable dashboard platform or on-premises software packages to allow for bespoke analysis or regulatory applications by our clients.
Our offering significantly reduces transaction cost of accessing multiple sources that each offer only partial insights into the complexity of the transition.