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ESG analysis important to emerging market credit: Insight Investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2018  |  NEWS
... that the fund manager calls ESG one of five "landmine" risks - risk that lie outside a balance sheet that could explode a company's investment return in certain cases. "These are risks that you don't necessarily do a typical cash flow or data analysis ...

Rising importance of sustainability in the commercial real estate industry

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2018  |  NEWS
... factoring in environmental, social and governance (ESG) disclosures as a critical way to measure risk and the drivers of a company's financial performance. The drivers The rise in importance of ESG disclosures is due to a number of reasons. First, the ...

Examining the corporate governance implications of share buybacks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2018  |  NEWS
... MSCI ESG Research. "One of the things you could do with money if you weren't investing in R&D, you could build a bigger company buying up smaller companies. That trend seems to have been replaced by the new emphasis on returning value to shareholders. ...

Man Group analyses tobacco considerations in investment strategy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 APR 2018  |  NEWS
... a zero perfect threshold, so it's genuinely a no-go area, for pooled as well as individual mandates." For tobacco, the company is led by investor mandates, Mitchell told The Sustainability Report. "Our current thinking is that we leave it up to our clients ...

Protecting impact from Greenwash - Duncan Paterson

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 APR 2018  |  NEWS
... other words, if the investor wasn't holding those shares, would that make a difference to the positive impacts of the company issuing the shares? The answer is fairly obviously no - the public equity market is characterised by its liquidity, with shares ...

New Forests given award for portfolio of carbon offset projects

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 APR 2018  |  NEWS
... forest carbon offset projects supplying the California greenhouse gas emissions trading system. New Forests was the first company to register an offset project developed under the California Compliance Offset Protocol - US Forests Projects, a project ...

Exploring the risks, impacts of future of work on investments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAR 2018  |  NEWS
... and the role of employers in ensuring that there is an orderly transition within various industries," Vamos said. "On a company by company basis, there's the issue of losing staff too quickly by 'abandoning the ship'. How to manage that as a win/win ...

BetaShares' Australian Sustainability Leaders ETF certified by RIAA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAR 2018  |  NEWS
... stock from the index. "These issues include (but have not been limited to) the recent scandal involving data analysis company Cambridge Analytica's use of personal data from 50 million Facebook users who did not agree to the use of their data," BetaShares ...

Ruling against Heinz shows risks in public shift towards health foods

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAR 2018  |  NEWS
... influence on the ACCC's allegations against Heinz." While this particular case and decision isn't enough on its own to move company share prices in Australia, it is an example of the growing public focus on sugar consumption and health. "I'm not sure ...

Norton Rose Fulbright partners to form new energy sector advisory business

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAR 2018  |  NEWS
... provide strategic consulting and guidance, and transaction advisory services, as well as serve as a start-up and growth company accelerator for the energy sector, Norton Rose said. The energy advisory business is to be run as a separate independent business ...