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BHP Billiton ESG downgrade prompts asset owner questions: MSCI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 OCT 2016  |  NEWS
... Research and downgraded BHP Billiton in its ESG Rating Research, a move that could impact on the portfolio construction and screens of asset managers and owners around the world. Michael Salvatico, executive director, MSCI MSCI recently held a webinar ...

Teachers Mutual Bank installs solar panels, LED lights

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 SEP 2016  |  NEWS
... Association Australasia (RIAA). Teachers Mutual Bank's Debt Issuance Program is an AU$500 million fund and has negative screens in place that prohibit using funds raised from lending to, or investing in, "large scale greenhouse gas polluting activities ...

LGS adapts investment screens for Sustainable Australian Shares option

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 AUG 2016  |  NEWS
Local Government Super (LGS) has evolved the investment restriction screens on its Sustainable Australian Shares (SAS) investment option. LGS CEO Peter Lambert LGS has made three changes, including broadening existing screens to exclude companies that ...

New Zealand responsible investment tops NZ$78bn: RIAA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUL 2016  |  NEWS
... becoming 'much more sophisticated in its approach', with investors using multiple responsible investment strategies. Negative screens are becoming more common in New Zealand, along with ESG integration, active corporate engagement and voting, and sustainability ...

Dimensional Fund Advisors launches Global Sustainability Trust

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUN 2016  |  NEWS
... consideration of additional environmental factors that may be important to investors as well. Dimensional also employs social screens to "exclude or reduce exposure" to companies connected to or derive revenue from practices such as tobacco, gambling ...

Altius Sustainable Bond Fund certified by RIAA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 DEC 2015  |  NEWS
... processes that we're going through and demonstrate that the processes have been independently assessed and approved." The fund screens out companies if their "primary business activity involves armaments, uranium, gambling, tobacco production, pornography ...

Investors look at corporate governance metrics: BNP Paribas

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 NOV 2015  |  NEWS
... data, making sense of it, getting the data in the right place and the right time. It's great to be able to pop up the screens and say, let's look at the information." BNP Paribas has on offer a service that provides screens of specialised information ...

Q&A: Richard Brandweiner, CIO First State Super

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2015  |  NEWS
... to making them the best in the market, and that means we're doing a few things. Firstly, we've introduced fossil fuel screens and we're bringing the screening in-house. At the moment, they're being done externally by our fund managers, but what we'd ...

Human rights considerations part of trustee board obligations

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2015  |  NEWS
... by broader ESG screening techniques. In 2014, screening approaches - negative, positive, best-in-class, and norms-based screens - made up AU$21.36 billion out of a total universe of AU629 billion broad responsible investment assets under management. ...

Demand for ethical products strong: Ethical Advisers' Co-Op

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2015  |  NEWS
... separately managed accounts (SMAs) to provide more bespoke solutions for clients. "That allows you to put up your own screens - fossil fuel screens come into that," he said. "We manage our dark-green fund in-house. Some firms do actively manage SMAs ...