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ANZ, GPT Group named 2012 DJSI supersector leaders

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... annual update to its sustainability indices, as announced by SAM, an investment boutique specialising in sustainability investing, and S&P Dow Jones Indices. In their assessment of ANZ Bank, DSJI pointed to ANZ's new financial inclusion strategy, their ...

Local Government Super recognised at Green Globe Awards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... Wales government's 2012 Green Globe Awards. LGS CEO Peter Lambert LGS was recognised for its sustainable and responsible investing commitments with the climate change leadership award. "There are two main drivers behind Local Government Super's decade-long ...

US college and university endowments lag on ESG investing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
American college and university endowments have a weak understanding of environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing strategies, trends and opportunities, according to a report by the Tellus Institute. US college and university endowments manage ...

Most Asia Pacific private equity investors monitor ESG

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... lot more often." Investors and potential investors are increasingly asking Coller Capital for ESG information before investing, Freeman said. "We see a lot more of UNPRI questioning," he said. "We have to audit through to underlying companies in the ...

Australian Ethical management survive general meeting vote

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... Green Party at the last federal election. Without changing who we are, there is some reason why that other 1.18m aren't investing with us - is it because they aren't aware of us, or is it that once they are aware of us, there's some reason they don't ...

Investor Profile: Five Oceans Asset Management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... opportunity for us. But obviously, if we think there are ongoing issues that mean increased risk, we're likely to pass on investing. KT: we can do that because we run quite concentrated portfolios; we're not index-relative. We invest in between 60-80 ...

Investor Profile: Omega Global Investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... strong signal as an investor that it's something you value, which is a good thing, and from a return perspective, by investing in supranationals, there's an extra return there with an equivalent risk to many below risk governments, so it fits the nature ...

LGS ESG sovereign debt strategy includes green bond tilt

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... Two, the [other factors] e.g. gender equality or GINI co-efficients, are more of a beta argument. We are confident that Investing in these countries is a better bet because they have more sable and cohesive societies, with less chance of riots and uprisings." ...

Australian Ethical Investments faces EGM board spill

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... Ethical are a boutique manager in a very small niche but a very particular niche," Xirakis said. "The niche is ethical investing, high conviction investing. The business has an embedded charter in the constitution on how it should invest and how it should ...

GBST, CAER to offer quantitative ESG data tool

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... narrow the criteria. They have volumes of level 3 data. We've tried to select the main things that would be an alert to investing in a company. There are four E, four S and four G factors that have ranking of one to five and they accumulate into an overall ...