The Association of Sustainable and Responsible Investment in Asia (ASrIA) released today a series of reports offering investors guidance on adding critical new areas for value creation and risk into analysis of Asian businesses... The reports...focus on the following sectors: automobiles; banking; metals and mining; oil, gas, and petrochemicals; power; pulp, paper, and timber; supply chain; and technology... The reports highlight three important key, cross-cutting risks affecting the Asian equity investment outlook generally: * Focused analysis of ESG [environmental, social, governance] risks is hampered by limited disclosure * Government ownership and control of many large listed Asian companies is a critically important variable in ESG performance * Globalization and market development are amplifying ESG trends linked to China and India