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Q&A with Michael Walsh, UCA Funds Management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
Michael Walsh is the recently named executive director and CEO of UCA Funds Management, an entity of the Uniting Church of Australia, Synod of Victoria and Tasmania, which manages more than AU$800m in ethical portfolios on behalf of church bodies, other ...

GRESB hires head of sustainability

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... benchmarking in the real estate sector." In the 2012 survey, 450 property companies and funds submitted information to GRESB with data on 36,000 properties representing US$1.32tr in global assets under management. Australia represented 9% of the total ...

Dalton Nicol Reid: using ESG to find sustainable earnings

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
For equities fund manager Dalton Nicol Reid, integrating environmental, social and governance information into their investment process is part of the task of finding quality companies in which to invest. Jamie Nicol, CIO of Dalton Nicol Reid Dalton ...

Net Balance: financial, shared value performance related

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... Responsibility - and a professor from the University of Sydney Business School - reviewed five years of sustainability performance data on 287 ASX listed companies. "A CSV score for each company was derived by rating a subset of 26 variables that could ...

MSCI: using ESG ratings can improve portfolio returns

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... effects on benchmark tracking error. "It definitely shows investors and portfolio managers that you can treat the ESG ratings data in as sophisticated a way as you can treat any other investment analysis factor," said Michael Salvatico, Vice President ...

AXA IM brings ESG metrics to fixed income portfolio analysis

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... Eurozone crisis [of 2009], we saw a definitive difference between the best and worst ESG performing countries." AXA IM used the data in two different fashions - as a negative screen to eliminate countries with significant ESG risks, which can potentially ...

ACCSR reports on state of corporate social responsibility

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... organisational performance targets is possibly used less than other tactics because it requires some progress in CSR and robust data before this exercise can be meaningfully undertaken." Looking to the year ahead, respondents told ACCSR that "building ...

Biologists develop essential variables to track biodiversity

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... University, have proposed a global biodiversity monitoring system based on a set of essential biodiversity variables to improve the data feeding biodiversity policy and sustainability metrics. Melodie McGeoch The team of 30 researchers, led by Henrique ...

US$178.5bn in sustainable investments in Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... growing maturity of the sustainable investment industry," said Alexandra Boakes Tracy, chairman of ASrIA, in a statement. "Data can now be collected and analysed both regionally and globally for the benefit of industry players in both developed and emerging ...

Drive to push corporate communication of ESG materiality

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... the report notes that companies often don't relate non-financial information to industry or peer averages, even when that data is available, and that quantifiable ESG data metrics need to be tracked. In addition to investigating written communication ...