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Integrating ESG essential to infrastructure portfolio: First Sentier Investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2019  |  NEWS
... Integrating environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) considerations is essential to building an infrastructure portfolio because of the long term nature of the assets, according to First Sentier Investors. Niall Mills, First Sentier Investors ...

Superannuation funds that invest responsibly outperform: RIAA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2019  |  NEWS
... you compare it to other markets internationally, there isn't a strong regulatory base [pushing for greater disclosure. Portfolio-level disclosing is at the lowest rate of any major market internationally. "The push is coming from members, beneficiaries ...

Investing in insurance linked securities, integrating climate risk: Amundi

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2019  |  NEWS
... year, the occurrence of natural events is random," Liu said. "We're not allocating to the peril, we're just building a portfolio that mimics the risk distribution of the global catastrophe reinsurance industry." While the majority of Amundi's ILS portfolio ...

ESG engagement key to small cap value: Perennial Value Management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 NOV 2019  |  NEWS
... companies making a positive impact on sustainable outcomes, according to Perennial Value Management. Damian Cottier, portfolio manager, Perennial Value Management Perennial Value Management integrates ESG considerations into its investment process through ...

Sustainalytics hires Jodie Tapscott as head of Australasia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 28 NOV 2019  |  NEWS
... developing and delivering the wealth management group's responsible investment strategy. Before that, Tapscott was a senior portfolio manager at AMP Capital Investors, where she oversaw the investment governance of the firm's suite of investment and ...

TCorp issues record-breaking $1.8bn Sustainability Bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 NOV 2019  |  NEWS
... light green investors. This issue attracted an investor base with an overarching ESG stewardship applied over the whole portfolio" Trigona said. "These investors were seeking assets with a green or ESG focus." Five new sustainable water and wastewater ...

ESG standards improving in emerging markets: T. Rowe Price

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 NOV 2019  |  NEWS
... improving, and form an important part of the investment framework for value investing, said T. Rowe Price. Irmak Surenkok, portfolio specialist in the Equity Division at T. Rowe Price. In a recent paper, I n Emerging Markets, Does It Pay to Worry About ...

Fiduciary duty, regulatory environment top ESG push factors: SSGA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 NOV 2019  |  NEWS
Fiduiary duty and a growing regulatory environment are the top factors pushing institutional investors to adopt environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) strategies, according to State Street Global Advisors (SSGA). Rakhi Kumar, Managing ...

Sustainable Digitalisation Project to set goals for real estate and cities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 NOV 2019  |  NEWS
... and assess the level of trust put into a technology, and for investors to assess the level of risk in their property/portfolio/investment managers." The third initiative is the Sustainable Digitalisation Investment Indicators, to establish a useful framework ...

Willis Towers Watson launches Australian Global Equity Focus Fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 NOV 2019  |  NEWS
... (GEFF), a multi-manager fund that integrates GEFF is able to incorporate ESG and sustainable principles. Stuart Gray, portfolio manager for GEFF GEFF has attracted seed funding of $150 million, and is aimed at institutional wholesale investors - super ...