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Investment professionals identify key ESG themes for 2017

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 JAN 2017  |  NEWS
... transparency, data and cyber security, consumer shift toward plant-based proteins and other issues are potential environmental, social and governance (ESG) investment themes that are both a source of risk and reward for investors in 2017, researchers ...

Escala Partners choose Ownership Matters to provide proxy advisory research

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JAN 2017  |  NEWS
... The decision to use Ownership Matters is based on a decision by Escala Partners to "raise the profile" of environmental, social and governance issues for the firm's private investor base, said Giselle Roux, CIO. "Essentially, it's got to the point that ...

BetaShares launches ETHI sustainability-themed ETF

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JAN 2017  |  NEWS
... world. We believe that in particular, the younger generation of investors as well as institutional investors are focused on social outcomes - religious groups, charities, NFP investors. We're starting to see a significant shift in understanding that ...

Commonwealth Bank ranked in top ten of G100 Sustainability Index

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JAN 2017  |  NEWS
... on a consideration of a broad range of sustainable business factors, including how organisations balance environmental, social and governance performance. Kylie Macfarlane, general manager of corporate responsibility at CBA, pointed to the bank's Opportunity ...

Northern Trust Asset Management launches GRESB-based real estate index

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JAN 2017  |  NEWS
... from investors that combined a passive management approach to real estate investing that also incorporated environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors. "Northern Trust listens to investors and develops solutions to meet their evolving needs," ...

Hunter Hall ownership changes prompt review from asset consultants

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 JAN 2017  |  NEWS
... change and the characteristics and beliefs of the team that steps up. Where Peter Hall's particular interests - such as social justice, environmental protection -were a part of the reason for investing with Hunter Hall, naturally investors will have ...

Monash University issues world-first certified green bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 DEC 2016  |  NEWS
... Gardner, president and vice chancellor of Monash University. "We want our campus network to be exemplars of environmental, social and economic best practice." The bond will fund a number of projects, including a major new learning and teaching building ...

Australian Human Rights Commission, LexisNexis launch RightsApp

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 DEC 2016  |  NEWS
... Australia's - and other countries' - responsibilities under human rights treaties such as the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel ...

Trailblazers, Good Shepherd Microfinance launch Financial Inclusion Action Plans

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 DEC 2016  |  NEWS
... Shepherd Microfinance to develop the FIAP program, and Good Shepherd Microfinance has partnered with EY and the Centre for Social Impact to design and implement the program. The FIAP Partnership Group estimates that reducing financial exclusion amongst ...

Engagement a tool for investment stewardship: RIAA conference

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 DEC 2016  |  NEWS
... engagement with invested companies as a tool to overcome market inefficiencies, particularly as relates to environmental, social and governance (ESG) related issues, according to a panel of experts speaking at the Responsible Investment Association Australasia ...