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Global fund manager launches local climate transition fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
... also being much more forward looking at positioning the focus onto energy transition," said Scott Bennett, head of quantitative research and client solutions for Australia and New Zealand at Northern Trust Asset Management. "Where we see a lot of demand ...

Assessing climate risk in corporate bond portfolios

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 25 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
... greener business model, Gazzola said. "The first stage is that dialogue, to understand if there are qualitative and quantitative factors that are being considered, but are not being disclosed. Usually capex expenditure plans are is where we find the ...

Neuberger Berman joins global diversity initiative

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 8 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
... independent, employee-owned investment manager that maintains a range of strategies-including equity, fixed income, quantitative and multi-asset class, private equity, real estate and hedge funds-on behalf of institutions, advisors and individual investors ...

Aviva Investors puts companies on notice over climate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
... progress based on a qualitative assessment of progress against Aviva Investors' climate engagement framework and quantitative improvements against the firm's proprietary climate transition risk model. Progress will be monitored on a six-monthly basis ...

Integrating climate impacts in quant strategies: Acadian Asset Management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
... Agreements, investors are already seeing impacts on valuations, according to Acadian Asset Management. Acadian is a global quantitative fund manager that integrates environmental, social and governance (ESG) data into its strategies and manages bespoke ...

Northern Trust scores win in Vanguard reversal

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 29 OCT 2020  |  NEWS
... that Vanguard ran for ANZ Investments. n equities, Northern Trust is taking over international equities funds and a quantitative strategy, with an ESG integration strategy and proprietary quality factor screen. The funds are led by Paul Huxford as the ...

PRI recgonises leaders for climate reporting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2020  |  NEWS
... have carbon footprint data in there, frameworks like the Transition Pathways Initiative, but this gives us a more quantitative part of the ratings." This strategy has been applied to clients seeking bespoke mandates as well. "We've had clients who ...

Ardea, UTS partnership to bring AI to fixed income analysis

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... press lately, but the mechanisms are quite simplistic in their nature," Richards noted. "We can look at not just the quantitative aspects of that, or what data do we use to analyse them, there are also a lot of ethical questions around the moral hazards ...

RealIndex appoints former Acadian executive

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 17 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
Systematic equities manager Realindex Investments has hired Joanna Nash to the newly created role of senior quantitative portfolio manager. Nash has 13 years' quantitative investment experience including senior roles at Acadian, where she was a ...

Do founder-led listed companies outperform on E, S and G metrics?

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... with analysts. The role of founder-CEOs has been studied in the past. A 2009 article in the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis by Rudiger Fahlenbrach, who was then a professor at The Ohio State University in the US, found that at the time ...