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UCA Funds Management hires Benjamin Pedley

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAY 2016  |  NEWS
... in recent years and their "keen interest" in corporate sustainability and a values-based approach. "I think ethical investing is an area that I think is only going to become increasingly important to investors," Pedley said. "Bear in mind that millennials ...

ESG integration continues to spread across Asia: Robeco

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2016  |  NEWS
... specialist at Robeco Hong Kong. Ronnie Lim, senior investment specialist at Robeco Hong Kong. Robeco integrates sustainable investing into its process, which Lim defined as a set of investment decisions that consider ESG criteria to generate long term ...

Tax transparency an ESG consideration for investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2016  |  NEWS
... investors are values-based investors that come at ESG from the point of view of an ethical standpoint - the way their investing aligns with an institution set of values. These people look at ESG data and come at it with a particular set of standards ...

New Forests launches ESG investment performance framework

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 APR 2016  |  NEWS
... Reporting and Investment Standards (IRIS) catalogue of performance metrics, which is an initiative of the Global Impact Investing Network (The GIIN). New Forests announced the new framework as part of its published 2015 sustainability report, and highlighted ...

CEFC, Palisade Investment Partners launch infrastructure fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 APR 2016  |  NEWS
... community engagement, if you have a problem, it's with one wind turbine out of 50 or one panel out of thousands." By investing equity early into renewable energy projects, the strategy can more effectively accelerate the construction of commercially ...

MSCI launch MSCI ACWI Sustainable Impact Index

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 APR 2016  |  NEWS
... in public equity markets," said Linda-Eling Lee, Managing Director and Global Head of ESG Research. "To date, impact investing has largely been limited to small-scale, private equity strategies but there has not been a tool aiming to measure the extent ...

Investors call for affordable housing bonds, aggregating body

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 APR 2016  |  NEWS
... aggregators to issue bonds to finance large scale affordable housing projects. Ian Learmonth, executive director of impact investing, Social Ventures Australia In January, the federal government established an Affordable Housing Working Group to investigate ...

Mirvac launches social return on investment framework

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 APR 2016  |  NEWS
... Sarah Breavington, Mirvac sustainability director. "Secondly, it's giving us a better understanding around what we're investing in, and the output we're creating. It's insightful for us to see where some of the gaps are. If I take active communities ...

Australian Ethical hires equities analyst

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2016  |  NEWS
... and delivers strong returns for investors," Williams said. "Australian Ethical is the leader in the Australian ethical investing sector and I look forward to using my skills to help it to continue to deliver excellent results for its investors and sh ...

Urgent need for social impact metrics development

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2016  |  NEWS
... The development of metrics to measure and report on social impacts is an issue of some preoccupation in the impacting investing sector and more broadly for a number of reasons. While it is possible to report financial returns of impact investing, systems ...