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Majority of Asia-Pacific investors expect to integrate ESG: BNP Paribas

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 18 APR 2019  |  NEWS
The majority of investors in the Asia Pacific region are aligning their ESG investment framework with the UN Sustainable Development Goals, according to a new BNP Paribas survey. Madhu Gayer, investment analytics and sustainability manager, BNP Paribas ...

Climate risk necessitates short and long term stress testing: Mercer

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2019  |  NEWS
... something for investors to look to the near-term, and to emphasise that climate change is not just a long term that's over the horizon issue, but also has short term impacts within a year's timeframe. It's bringing climate change in as a short term risk ...

Investec Asset Management launches Global Environment Strategy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2019  |  NEWS
... impact. We're running it with high conviction. It's a 25 stock portfolio at the moment, managed with a five-year plus horizon, and the importance of that is engagement and impact and transparency right at the top." The strategy seeks to invest in companies ...

Giant Leap venture capital fund seeks impact businesses for investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2018  |  NEWS
... business that can generate 10x our investment as they scale, and generate outsized impact." The fund has a 10 year time horizon, and looking to the future, Giant Leap will seek to raise a second round of venture capital funds of $15 million, Richardson ...

Investors, credit ratings agencies grapple with ESG impacts on ratings: PRI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUN 2018  |  NEWS
... dialogues between investors and CRAs, concludes that participants agree "there is no silver bullet to identify the right time horizon over which to assess ESG factors in credit risk analysis." The "multi-dimensional nature of ESG factors, difficulties ...

HESTA commits additional $40m to Social Impact Investment Trust

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUN 2018  |  NEWS
... HESTA, SVA, Glenview - a not-for-profit aged care provider, and the Commonwealth Government. Other SVA investments include Horizon Housing, a community housing provider in Queensland that aims to increase the supply of affordable housing. There are growing ...

Evolution towards autonomous vehicles present infrastructure investment: AMP Capital

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAR 2018  |  NEWS
... For every dollar you put into the ground to the power mix, you're getting it at a calculable return over a known time horizon. But let's say you've already invested for 10 years and you get that back in five, you're being compensated for that at a low ...

Sustainable returns versus ESG risk analysis: Stewart Investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAR 2018  |  NEWS
... owned company. Families are naturally focused on passing assets along generation to generation, which is a longer time horizon." Stewart Investors uses a bottom up analysis approach that combines quantitative and qualitative strategies, Edgerton said. ...

ESG integration comes into its own in fixed income portfolios: RIAA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  SUNDAY, 19 NOV 2017  |  NEWS
... scores and strong ESG practices, we feel there's room for improvement on the reporting side... over a 5-10 year investment horizon, because we are l/t investors, you can really have an impact.... Where we are today, the impact and engagement piece is ...

Bessi Graham to step down as CEO of The Difference Incubator

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 SEP 2017  |  NEWS
... Graham "will be exploring new opportunities in 2018 that continue to build the impact investment market and broaden the horizon of what's possible," TDi said.