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NZ Super to divest from gun manufacture investments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2019  |  NEWS
... Corp, Richemont, Sturm, Ruger & Company and Vista Outdoor Inc. The Guardians has worked with its external service provider MSCI ESG Research to identify companies captured by the new exclusion category. The Guardians updates its exclusion list on a six-monthly ...

Investec Asset Management launches Global Environment Strategy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2019  |  NEWS
... the real carbon risk is to a portfolio. Once you've worked out what the carbon risk is, which is huge, probably 90% of the MSCI world is really scope 3 emissions. Once we realised that, we want to try and find the opportunities, and this is where our ...

Australian funds join international controversial weapons call

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 FEB 2019  |  NEWS
... providers to remove controversial weapons from mainstream indices. The open letter was sent to FTSE Russell, Morningstar, MSCI, S&P Dow Jones Indices and STOXX. The initiative began in Switzerland and is coordinated by Swiss Sustainable Finance. It has ...

Video: Ethical and Responsible Investing in the 21st Century: Don't look back now - The Highlights

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2019  |  NEWS
... investor demand. The Sustainability Report moderated a panel discussion addressing these questions in Melbourne. Sponsored by MSCI and hosted by Mercer, the panel comprised Helga Birgden, global business leader, responsible Investment, Mercer; Michelle ...

Video: Ethical and Responsible Investing in the 21st Century: Don't look back now - Full Discussion

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2019  |  NEWS
... investor demand. The Sustainability Report moderated a panel discussion addressing these questions in Melbourne. Sponsored by MSCI and hosted by Mercer, the panel comprised Helga Birgden, global business leader, responsible Investment, Mercer; Michelle ...

Big data, ESG ratings can combine to unlock investment return: TruValue

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 DEC 2018  |  NEWS
... Harvard Business School recently wrote a research paper that combined data from TruValue Labs with ESG performance scores from MSCI, and concluded that there is a valuation premium for companies with strong sustainability performance, and that the premium ...

Core Civic, GEO Group flagged for ESG controversies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 OCT 2018  |  NEWS
... grassroots campaign against US President Donald Trump's policy of immigrant detention, have been flagged for controversies under MSCI 's ESG ratings system. For the US grassroots groups, which have organised under the Families Belong Together umbrella ...

40% of ASX200 fall short of the carbon reduction requirements: MSCI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 16 OCT 2018  |  NEWS
... Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC), meaning they are at risk of facing regulatory penalties, according to new research from MSCI. Morgan Ellis, senior associate, ESG Research, MSCI MSCI has analysed ASX200 company risk through the lens of direct ...

Willis Towers Watson, MSCI launch Adaptive Capped ESG Universal Index

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2018  |  NEWS
Willis Towers Watson and MSCI have developed a new capped index strategy that integrates environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors within the investment process. said Louise Lew, head of sustainability, Australia, Willis Towers Watson The Adaptive ...

SSGA launches State Street Low Carbon ESG International Equities Index Trust

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2018  |  NEWS
... Global Advisors, which initially screened out companies involved in tobacco and controversial weapons. SSGA has partnered with MSCI to create a low carbon, high ESG international equities fund. The fund's index reduces carbon emissions and reserves intensity ...