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GRI CEO discusses future of sustainability reporting standards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2015  |  NEWS
... standards that can enhance market transparency and reporting capabilities to increase investment to developing and emerging markets. "Sustainability reporting has been done for 20 years, and where are we really at," Meehan said. "If we take a step back ...

Westpac, Stockland named DJSI industry leaders

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 SEP 2015  |  NEWS
... social and governance (ESG factors). Each year, RobecoSAM invites the largest 3,400 companies from developed and emerging markets to take part in its corporate sustainability assessment (CSA), from which the indices are built. "Over the years the DJSI ...

Inflection Point Capital Management launches Zero Carbon

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2015  |  NEWS
... a line of Strategically Aware Investment (SAI) equity funds covering four geographic regions - Euro, Europe, Emerging Markets, and Global, as well as the newly launched ZC. The fund is open to Australian institutional investors, said Gordon Noble, senior ...

ANZ to partner with AWA in SE Asia program

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2015  |  NEWS
... years.... It's the nature of the industry and the nature of developing infrastructure and resource projects, in emerging markets, and even in Australia, with some of the bigger projects, they take quite a long time." AWA is Australia's peak water organisation ...

Investors integrating ESG in quant portfolios: Northern Trust

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2015  |  NEWS
... footprint by using Trucost as a service provider. Investors have also identified corporate governance risk in emerging markets as another ESG risk, Sarr said. "We have noticed over the past few years that clients are concerned about the performance of ...

Northern Trust opens Australia/NZ asset management office

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2015  |  NEWS
... available to investors in Asia-Pacific, Europe and the Middle East. The fund range includes the Northern Trust Emerging Markets Custom ESG Equity Index Fund, the Northern Trust Emerging Markets Custom Low Carbon Optimised Equity Index Fund and the Northern ...

Utilities sector face material ESG issues: Sustainalytics

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2015  |  NEWS
... the Rome-based electricity transmission grid operator, and Acciona SA, the Spanish renewable energy leader. Top emerging markets-based performers are concentrated in Brazil, and include many of Brazil's large hydroelectric producers. The report also ...

Christian Super selects three impact investment funds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 DEC 2014  |  NEWS
... private equity fund run by the International Finance Corporation that invests in renewable energy projects in emerging markets, and the G lobal Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Fund (GEEREF), a fund-of-funds manager that is advised by the European ...

PRI announces new Advisory Council members

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 DEC 2014  |  NEWS
... Trustees, GEPF, for the Africa/Middle East asset owner position; Luciane Ribeiro, CEO, Santander Brazil AM, for the emerging markets investment manager position; and Marcel Barros, executive director of benefits, PREVI, for the South America asset owner ...

DJSI 2014 review names ASX companies industry leaders

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... country and regional indices." To form the DJSI indices, over 3,000 companies - including 800 companies from emerging markets - are invited to participate in RobecoSAM's corporate sustainability assessment, an in-depth analysis of financially material ...