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Australian Ethical Investment Managing Director Phil Vernon to step down

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUN 2019  |  NEWS
... Ethical in December 2009 and oversaw a substantial growth in the business. "I am proud to have been part of such a special company that has been at the forefront of responsible investing and the profit with purpose movement in this country," Vernon said. ...

CEFC, Ironstone Capital create Warada Capital, specialist joint venture

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUN 2019  |  NEWS
... projects. Ian Learmonth, CEO, Clean Energy Finance Corporation Warada Capital is an integrated development and fund management company that will draw on the experience and networks of the CEFC and Ironstone capital. It will focus on investments in early ...

Fidelity International develops proprietary sustainability ratings system

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUN 2019  |  NEWS
... The system covers Fidelity's investment universe of over 3,000 issuers, and provides a "forward-looking evaluation of a company's focus and trajectory on ESG-related issues." The ratings framework divides this investment universe into 99 subsectors ...

MSCI creates Climate Change Indexes tilted to low carbon transition

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUN 2019  |  NEWS
... The new MSCI Climate Change Indexes re-weight securities based on MSCI's Low Carbon transition score, which measures a company's exposure to low carbon transition risk, carbon emissions and fossil fuel reserves, and its exposure to opportunities including ...

Pengana WHEB Sustainable Investing Impact Report identifies positives

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUN 2019  |  NEWS
... what a business is selling, and our analysis of companies is focused on understanding the ESG characteristics of that company to understand the quality of the business." WHEB identifies quality companies through that ESG analysis, Latham said. "We're ...

ASX200 hits target of 30% women on boards: ACSI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUN 2019  |  NEWS
... milestone represents the culmination of years of work by ACSI and others to increase the number of women appointed to listed company boards," said Louise Davidson, ACSI CEO. "Investors have long recognised the value of board gender diversity. ACSI and ...

Vanessa Zimmerman launches Pillar Two human rights consultancy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUN 2019  |  NEWS
... is important for companies to understand the whole breadth of human right risks they might face, and this was about a company understanding as a whole the adverse impacts on people, whether they be community members, workers, etc." Pillar Two will continue ...

Insight Investment applies traffic light analysis to green, impact bonds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2019  |  NEWS
... insufficient details around use of proceeds and other aspects, Kendall said. "If we're looking at a social or green bond, the company might not have any more information than in the prospectus, and we believe there should be details, targets for the ...

T. Rowe Price analyses water, energy, food nexus and investment impact

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2019  |  NEWS
... more thematic and water based. What we're trying to do is to marry regions that are experiencing water scarcity and how a company is managing their process." T Rowe Price calls its responsible research model the Responsible Investing Indicator Model ...

Future Super divests from companies with no women on boards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2019  |  NEWS
... funds own 50% of the ASX, they could be doing a lot to help the average Australian woman who works for an ASX100, ASX200 company." Last year, Future Super commissioned Gender pay equity and Australian listed companies from CAER and the Australasian Centre ...