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First State Super targets 30% emissions reduction in equities portfolio

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... modern slavery. We want to work with our fund managers to ensure that the processes that they have and how they're looking at ESG in their portfolios reflects their policy positions. We'll continue to work with them. We have some fantastic real asset ...

Data enhances case for ESG as separate, interrelated factor to quality

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
With material environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) issues increasingly demonstrating their impact on companies' ability to generate long term value for investors, fund managers are making the case that ESG can augment quality signals ...

Aberdeen Standard Investments launches smaller companies fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... Investments (ASI) has recently launched the Aberdeen Standard Global Smaller Companies Fund in Australia. Danielle Welsh-Rose, ESG Investment Director - Asia Pacific, ASI The fund is a high-conviction portfolio of quality global smaller company investment ...

Korea Housing Finance Corporation prices COVID-19 social bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... KHFC's Social Financing Framework, which meant a diverse investor base ranging from traditional Covered Bond investors to ESG investors who "acknowledge KHFC's devotion to the welfare of people in Korea," KHFC said. This is HFC's fourth Social Covered ...

ESG data enhances value strategies: Maple-Brown Abbott

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
Using environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) data to augment selection of stocks enhances fundamental value strategies, according to Maple-Brown Abbott. Natasha McKean, head of ESG, Maple-Brown Abbott "Companies with strong governance ...

MSCI launches Real Estate Climate Value-at-Risk solution for investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... investors incorporate climate change considerations in their investment process for over 20 years," said Remy Briand, head of ESG at MSCI. "Over this time, we have witnessed increased urgency from investors to quantify their climate risk exposures when ...

Fidelity International launches Sustainable Water and Waste Fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
... capital, to evaluate companies and company managements, on both their financial merit and on their approach and commitment to ESG factors," said Alva Devoy, managing director, Australia at Fidelity International. "We approach this in an integrated way ...

Transformational investment needed to address systemic risk: WEF

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
... agility to opportunistically shift into market segments that are being repriced, " Birgden said. "We never push the line that ESG-driven investing in the short term has been resilient through COVID-19 without adding the subsequent point that that ESG ...

Future Super measures environmental impact of portfolio

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
... general balanced or growth super fund options they would have been 1.5% better off over the 12-months to end March if they chose ESG balanced or growth options. The ESG effect over the quarter would have been 1%. Further, Rainmaker research found Future ...

Insight Investment launches proprietary ESG risk rating system

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
Insight Investment has introduced a proprietary environmental, social and governance [ESG] risk rating system to assess more than 6,500 issuers covering 850,000 respective subsidiaries. Josh Kendall, senior ESG analyst, Insight Investment The ESG risk ...