Subject: ESG Environment, Social & Governance

Identify and assess environmental social and governance (ESG) risk incidents in a systematic way.
Includes 250,000+ listed and non-listed companies —15,000+ public companies and 235,000+ private companies. Offers risk metrics and underlying scores to assess and benchmark the risk exposure and business conduct of companies. Includes 101 ESG risk factors mapped to all companies. 2007-present, updated annually in October.

Learn more about RepRisk from WRDS.

WRDS Access is available only to current UNC-CH faculty, students, and selected staff. 

Need access? Go to https://wrds-www.wharton.upenn.edu and click on “REGISTER” in the upper right corner of the page.

UNC-CH users with additional password

https://wrds-www.wharton.upenn.edu/pages/get-data/reprisk/

Data on boards of directors of publicly-listed companies around the world. Includes 2 million corporate executives & board members from over 2.2 million organizations. Biographical data includes details such as age, gender, positions held, educational qualifications, compensation and stock holdings, as well as insights into the executive’s professional network.

Coverage varies by data set. Some starts in 1999.

Learn more about BoardEx: Introduction to BoardEx (WRDS account required) and information about BoardEx from WRDS.

WRDS Access is available only to current UNC-CH faculty, students, and selected staff. 

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Analyze executive compensation. Over 100 current salary, bonus, and stock option data along with company identification items; match top executives’ compensation data with company financial data in COMPUSTAT North America. 1992-present.

Manuals and overviews for COMPUSTAT Execucomp from WRDS.

WRDS Access is available only to current UNC-CH faculty, students, and selected staff. 

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UNC-CH users with additional password

https://wrds-www.wharton.upenn.edu/pages/get-data/compustat-capital-iq-standard-poors/compustat/execucomp/

Designed to capture all insider activity as reported on SEC forms 3, 4, 5, and 144. Data is from Jan. 1986-present unless noted. Includes:

• Table One: Table 1 non-derivative transaction and holdings information filed on Forms 3, 4, 5.
• Table Two: Table 2 derivative transaction and holdings information filed on Form 3, 4, 5. Includes open market derivatives transactions as well as information on the award, exercise, and expiration of stock options.
• Form 144: File contains the Proposed Sale file is derived from Form 144. This data includes the expected data of sale, the number of securities to be sold, the estimated market value of the proposed sales, and the name of the executing broker.
• Average Returns: Info. relating to how a stock has historically performed following an insider’s transactions. Includes average 3-month and 6-month buy and sell returns as well as the number of historic buy and sell decisions for each individual insider.
• Amendment Concordance: Links an amended filing to its original filing by way of DCN. This prevents double counting by allowing users to see which original filing is being replaced. The amendment concordance file is a full refresh every day. Please note: not all amended filings are included in this file, only those that meet our concordance criteria. Covers Oct. 2002-present.

Support articles on Insider Filings from WRDS.

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https://wrds-www.wharton.upenn.edu/pages/get-data/thomson-reuters/insiders-data/

Data from Thomson Financial.

Stock holdings and transactions by more than 4,300 Institutional Money Managers and money management companies. The Institutional Holdings data source is the actual 13f form filed with the SEC on a quarterly basis by money managers/management companies. The 13f data is aggregated to a manager level. Coverage is from 1980 to the present. (formerly known as CDA/Spectrum)

Learn more about Institutional Money Managers (13f) Holdings from WRDS.

WRDS Access is available only to current UNC-CH faculty, students, and selected staff. 

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https://wrds-www.wharton.upenn.edu/pages/get-data/lseg/institutional-13f-holdings-s34/

Securities Class Action Settlements covers 19 years and contains information on more than 5,900 cases. These files represent a one-time snapshot of the entire SCAS database (all fields and all cases including Federal, State, International and SEC Disgorgements) as of March 2011.  These files contain information on pending and historical securities-related class action lawsuits and SEC settlements from Securities Class Action Services, LLC.

• CaseSecurity.zip: this is a zipped, pipe-delimited text file that contains a list of Security Class Action lawsuits. Date: 2015-12-17.
• CaseSettlement.zip: this is a zipped, pipe-delimited text file that contains a list of SEC Class Action Settlements. Date: 2011-05-02.
• SCAS_Data_Definitions04_14_2011.xls: this is a data dictionary that provides descriptions for each of the fields in the CaseSecurity and CaseSettlement files in Excel format. Date: 2011-05-02.

UNC-CH users only

http://spruce.lib.unc.edu.libproxy.lib.unc.edu/content/dataservices/scas/

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Voting Analytics can help you monitor and analyze institutional voting policies, shareholder meeting results and voting patterns to discover trends and actionable insights. Data is available for 2003 to 2013 and is stored in a series of zip files. with 1 Zip file for each year of data.

Special Note: Because of license restrictions Data may be accessed only by currently enrolled students and researchers on the faculty at the University of North Carolina and may not be imported into a widely accessible online database. Data may be used only for research purposes; absolutely no distribution or commercial use whatsoever is permitted. Institutional Shareholder Services must be cited as the source of the data in any publications based on analysis of this data. Please contact researchtools@kenan-flagler.unc.edu for information on how to access the database.

UNC-CH users only

SDC Platinum (LSEG Workspace)

Provides detailed information on new issues, mergers and acquisitions, syndicated loans, and private equity for the global financial marketplace.

SDC Platinum is now a module that can be added to an LSEG Workspace account. Complete this form to request this module be added to your account: https://unc.libwizard.com/f/sdc-platinum-access.

If you do not have a LSEG Workspace account, self-register for an account following the instructions here: https://guides.lib.unc.edu/go65062420. For help contact: Researchassistance@unc.edu.

UNC-CH users with additional password