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MSCI launches Real Estate Climate Value-at-Risk solution for investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... investors incorporate climate change considerations in their investment process for over 20 years," said Remy Briand, head of ESG at MSCI. "Over this time, we have witnessed increased urgency from investors to quantify their climate risk exposures when ...

Fidelity International launches Sustainable Water and Waste Fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
... capital, to evaluate companies and company managements, on both their financial merit and on their approach and commitment to ESG factors," said Alva Devoy, managing director, Australia at Fidelity International. "We approach this in an integrated way ...

Transformational investment needed to address systemic risk: WEF

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
... agility to opportunistically shift into market segments that are being repriced, " Birgden said. "We never push the line that ESG-driven investing in the short term has been resilient through COVID-19 without adding the subsequent point that that ESG ...

Future Super measures environmental impact of portfolio

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
... general balanced or growth super fund options they would have been 1.5% better off over the 12-months to end March if they chose ESG balanced or growth options. The ESG effect over the quarter would have been 1%. Further, Rainmaker research found Future ...

Insight Investment launches proprietary ESG risk rating system

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
Insight Investment has introduced a proprietary environmental, social and governance [ESG] risk rating system to assess more than 6,500 issuers covering 850,000 respective subsidiaries. Josh Kendall, senior ESG analyst, Insight Investment The ESG risk ...

Ex-Rosenberg Equities executives launch Radiant ESG

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
The former CEO and head of sustainable investing at Rosenberg Equities have launched a new platform specialising in ESG-anchored portfolios and research for institutional investors and wealth managers. Heidi Ridley (l) and Kathryn McDonald (r), co-founders ...

Ethical approach yields investment benefits: Crescent Wealth

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
... liquidity position, the fund said. The fund currently has approximately $274 in assets under management, Yassine said. "Most ESG funds have outperformed [through the initial phase of the COVID-19 pandemic," said Jason Hazell, chief investment officer ...

HKEX, SSGA join Climate Bond Initiative Partners Programme

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
... Kidney, CEO of Climate Bonds Initiative. "The COVID-19 pandemic presents new opportunities for investors to consider their ESG strategies and for international capital to shift decisively towards sustainable investments," Kidney said. "The launch of ...

First Sentier Investors launch Modern Slavery Toolkit

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
... hammer home the importance of risk to people and salience of human rights, which is different to how they'd prioritise other ESG risk management, which is more around materiality." Identifying risks from modern slavery is hampered by the fact that the ...

Demand for climate aware, ESG investment: State Street Global Advisors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
State Street Global Advisors sees strong demand for climate-aware and ESG themed investment products and solutions, even during tough market conditions. Nathalie Wallace, global head ESG investment strategy. State Street Global Advisors "It is a global ...