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Australia/NZ property companies, funds outperform: GRESB

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2015  |  NEWS
... sustainability-specific requirements, as compared to 60% globally. Clauses include operational performance standards, sharing of utility data, "obligations to do nothing to adversely affect the environmental performance of the building", energy-efficient ...

Future Super, Thomson Reuters launch new indices

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2015  |  NEWS
... Companies are screened according to proprietary Future Super research, which includes Thomson Reuters ESG services as a primary data source, amongst others. The indices will be available on Thomson Reuters Eikon, the company's financial desktop and mobile ...

Human rights considerations part of trustee board obligations

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2015  |  NEWS
... burgeoning sophistication and proliferation of means to measure, assess and execute based on carbon emissions and climate change data, there are fewer tools to hand to help trustees assess human rights risks. "The question will arise as to how well you're ...

Northern Trust makes case for combining quality with ESG

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2015  |  NEWS
... combination with ESG rankings can provide, on average, an additional 1.4% of alpha annually. Quality adds an uncorrelated set of data because quality analyses different indicators, Hunstad said. Although Northern Trust manages equity portfolios for LUCRF ...

Newpin social benefit bond returns 8.9% in second year

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015  |  NEWS
... ability of service organisations to adapt to more outcomes-based contracting, to achieve that, and to collect the relevant data that is necessary to undertake this sort of contracting," Learmonth said. "New South Wales has two live bonds- Newpin and ...

Telstra publishes 2015 Sustainability Report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 AUG 2015  |  NEWS
... experience, energy efficiency and carbon emissions, digital access and inclusion, ethics, values and governance, privacy and data protection, digital literacy, diversity and inclusion, cyber safety, culture and engagement and ICT innovation enabling ...

HESTA creates first Reconciliation Action Plan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 AUG 2015  |  NEWS
... for greater statistical evidence on both health outcomes and financial outcomes. "I think there is absolutely not decent data [around retirement]," Blakey said. "If we wanted to create more confidence in retirement provision for [Aboriginal and Torres ...

NZ responsible investment assets increase 10%: RIAA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2015  |  NEWS
... asset base, 93% of assets use a screened approach, and 7% used sustainability themed investing. The report did not have any data on impact investment. "There is a challenge here in categorising the community trusts, who are involved in active community ...

Responsible investment reaches 50% total AUM: RIAA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 AUG 2015  |  NEWS
... decision by fund managers and superannuation funds to divest from tobacco assets. This year, RIAA worked with EY to gather data on more than 90 financial products in Australia and New Zealand, and conducted a review of 85 fund managers. Of those managers ...

ESG concerns a challenge for mining projects: MSCI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2015  |  NEWS
... its high carbon intensive assets?" Analysts apply different methodologies to calculate value at risk, but the need for the data is common across MSCI clients, said Michael Salvatico, vice president at MSCI ESG Research in Sydney. "It's been interesting ...