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The Sustainability Report relaunched as FS Sustainability

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 1 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... $2 trillion - is managed by fund trustee boards and investment managers that are signatories to the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (UN PRI). Australia has the fourth highest number of global signatories to these protocols according ...

Northern Trust expands ESG Insights risk analytics suite

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... reputational risk; and support alignment to sustainable investment frameworks, such as those of the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (UNPRI). This release has been designed to align with the reporting recommendations of the Taskforce ...

Online investors applying ESG criteria: Investment Trends

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
Online retail equity and ETF investors in Australia are increasingly applying responsible investing principles to their investment decisions, according to specialist researcher Investment Trends. (Source: Investment Trends) Investment Trends has released ...

ESG superannuation funds outperform in torrid year: Rainmaker

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... rethinking long-run risks and preparing for them," Dunnin noted. "While all trustees should be thinking this way, ESG principles are these writ large." The strong performance of ESG super funds echoes strong performance in other ESG-themed products elsewhere ...

Christian Super appoints Mark Rider as chief investment officer

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... membership of the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) Investors' Council. The fund is also a founding signatory to the Principles for Responsible Investment, launched in 2006. In 2019, Christian Super released its inaugural Impact Report and became ...

ESG ETP assets under management triple in last three years: Research

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... last three years. "Three years ago ETP products incorporating Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance (ESG) principles represented 1% of the Australian market," the latest Rainmaker ETP report stated. "Following rapid growth and some impressive ...

Taking a closer look at corporate lobbying on climate change

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... practices that investors should be concerned about. - Key actors and institutions that investors should focus on. - Guiding principles for responsible climate change lobbying - Key stakeholders who should be involved in or consulted with when companies ...

Maple-Brown Abbott Global Listed Infrastructure hires ESG analyst

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
... well as the Maple-Brown Abbott's overall ESG strategy including its obligations as a signatory of the United Nations Principles of Responsible Investing (UNPRI). MBA GLI is majority owned by its co-founders and today manages over AU$5 billion for clients ...

Digital human rights rise up the agenda post-COVID-19: Robeco

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
... lens to digital human rights and ask companies how they're managing topics, how they're implementing the UN Guiding Principles." Robeco has raised the issue of digital human rights with companies in which they invest. Robeco and three other fund managers ...

Super funds lag on disclosing proxy voting record: ACCR

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
... tool of the proxy vote becomes more important. "I've said this to funds themselves - at some point there will be a principles based approach to these things, particularly when they're voting on proposals overseas," he said. "Arguably, voting is the only ...