Bran Pathmanaban
Senior Research Analyst
Bran Pathmanaban brings more than 15 years of financial services industry experience to his current role as a Senior Research Analyst at Cutter Associates. Bran has worked across the buy side and sell side at various firms, including Credit Suisse, Aegon Asset Management, and ABRDN. Most recently, he worked in the Wealth and Asset Management practice of KPMG,where he specialized in ESG. At KPMG, he advised investment managers on the regulatory impacts of ESG, including Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) and Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD). Bran focuses on ESG trends and impacts within the wealth and asset management sector and helps clients on their ESG journeys. Bran earned a master’s degree in management from Manchester Business School and an MBA from IE Business School in Madrid, Spain.
Firms are grappling with ESG integration. While the number of ESG data vendors has grown, so has the number of frameworks and regulations that firms must adhere to.
Firms integrating ESG have the ever-present concern around accusations of greenwashing. Therefore, members are incorporating ESG data across their entire firm - not just for investment decisions. This means that different types of ESG data are needed for the specific use cases within a firm's various departments and functions. In our research, we have found that all of this is resulting in an increasing appetite for ESG data. As a Cutter member, you have access to the full report and related content.