RDI Methodology
How to read the AGTC Risk Disclosure Index
The AGTC Risk Disclosure Index, or RDI, benchmarks how clearly companies disclose enterprise risk governance, risk-management processes, risk specificity, evidence support, and standards-aligned risk-management concepts in public filings.
RDI is designed for comparative disclosure intelligence. It evaluates what a company publicly discloses, not whether the underlying risk-management program is effective in practice. RDI can be applied to any defined coverage universe, including large-cap indexes, sector groups, custom portfolios, or client-selected peer sets.
What RDI measures
RDI measures the specificity, breadth, and decision-usefulness of public risk disclosure across major enterprise risk dimensions, including governance, ERM process, cyber, operational resilience, legal/regulatory risk, financial risk, climate/environment, geopolitical risk, and monitoring.
What RDI does not measure
RDI does not certify internal control effectiveness, predict risk events, or rate the absolute level of company risk. A higher score means stronger public disclosure evidence, not necessarily lower business risk.
How peers are selected
Peer tools prioritize same-sector records within the selected RDI universe and allow manual additions. Snapshot mode compares one selected coverage year; trend mode compares available historical records where imported.
Core RDI headings
Public score from 0 to 100 summarizing risk-disclosure quality across the RDI rubric.
Public grade band derived from the RDI score: A, B, C, D, F, or NR where evidence is insufficient.
Plain-language disclosure maturity band, such as Leading, Advanced, Developing, Limited, or Sparse / Minimal.
Overall rank within the scored RDI universe. The public rank is based on hidden rdi_rank_score to avoid artificial ties while displaying the public RDI score.
Company rank among scored peers in the same GICS sector.
Within-sector percentile based on the hidden ranking score. Higher percentile indicates stronger relative disclosure quality.
Evidence-quality headings
Share of RDI indicators with responsive public evidence in reviewed SEC filings.
Evidence-depth score reflecting specificity, process detail, mitigation/monitoring evidence, and evidence confidence.
Quality-weighted source-diversity score showing whether evidence is supported across relevant filing sources rather than isolated references.
Diagnostic standards-alignment score based on public evidence related to risk context, risk criteria, assessment depth, treatment, monitoring, reporting, and change/improvement.
Share of indicators with company-specific, rather than purely generic, risk disclosure evidence.
Share of indicators supported by stronger evidence patterns such as explicit process, governance, mitigation, monitoring, or multi-source support.
Methodology footnote
- Source basis: RDI is based on public SEC filing evidence, including 10-K, DEF 14A, recent 8-Ks, and extracted filing sections where available.
- Ranking basis: Public pages display the public RDI score. Sorting and percentile calculations may use a hidden rank score to avoid artificial ties among companies with the same displayed score.
- Standards alignment: The Standards score is a diagnostic disclosure metric aligned to risk-management concepts such as context, criteria, assessment, treatment, monitoring, reporting, and change/improvement.
- Coverage universe: Public labels refer to the selected RDI universe rather than a fixed index. Current and future universes may include large-cap indexes, broader public-company universes, sector cohorts, custom portfolios, or client-selected peer sets.
- Use case: RDI is intended for peer benchmarking, governance analysis, diligence screening, and disclosure-improvement workflows.