All investment platforms will show you the financial value of your portfolio. But a new visual platform made by Dutch design firm Clever Franke for Swiss bank Globalance goes a step further: It maps your portfolio’s macro-level social and environmental effects.
The interface, called Globalance World, makes it easier to figure out how your money can do good. Users can review the impact of everything from entire market indices like the S&P 500 to individual companies like Microsoft through a series of data visualizations. What’s more, each portfolio or asset can be looked at through four perspectives: climate, megatrends, footprint, and returns. Users with a Globalance portfolio can also get a personalized map that shows the impact of their personal investments.
Another helpful, at-a-glance visual is an organic pebble shape used to represent individual assets in map view. Though you can’t see them, the pebbles each have nine different axes based on data points that together measure a company’s overall footprint on everything from labor markets to biodiversity. The contrasting shapes and sizes allow for quick, intuitive comparison. But you can also click on individual assets for more detail on what the shape actually means and how it aligns with bigger trends. (Up to a point, that is, then the interface will prompt you to create an account.)
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