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Companies that manage ESG issues "more resilient": Saturna Capital

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2020  |  NEWS
... better,"Klimo said. "There are companies that are aggregating the data so you can look at it across the US or across a global portfolio. There are holes in it, obviously, and any of the companies that are aggregating data are limited to what the company ...

Eurozone outperforms North America in ESG investing: Amundi

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2020  |  NEWS
... lagged from 2010 and 2017, since 2018, Social is now the best performing pillar, Amundi said. "We found that when a portfolio took a long position in the 20% best-ranked stocks and a short in the 20% worst-ranked stocks, this contributed to an annualised ...

ESG data can augment low-volatility quant strategies: Northern Trust

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 JAN 2020  |  NEWS
... exposure to that volatility when markets are rising, and takes ESG quality into consideration when constructing the portfolio. "The whole thesis of the strategy is that you want to participate in the equity market when the market is going up, with a ...

ASFI identifies six critical challenges for sustainable finance roadmap

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2019  |  NEWS
... of practice that are going to enable us to be able to value properly, assess risk properly, and aggregate that on a portfolio wide basis." This then leads to unlocking sustainable finance and capital. "As much as we want to put unlocking capital as number ...

Integrating ESG essential to infrastructure portfolio: First Sentier Investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2019  |  NEWS
... Integrating environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) considerations is essential to building an infrastructure portfolio because of the long term nature of the assets, according to First Sentier Investors. Niall Mills, First Sentier Investors ...

Superannuation funds that invest responsibly outperform: RIAA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2019  |  NEWS
... you compare it to other markets internationally, there isn't a strong regulatory base [pushing for greater disclosure. Portfolio-level disclosing is at the lowest rate of any major market internationally. "The push is coming from members, beneficiaries ...

Investing in insurance linked securities, integrating climate risk: Amundi

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2019  |  NEWS
... year, the occurrence of natural events is random," Liu said. "We're not allocating to the peril, we're just building a portfolio that mimics the risk distribution of the global catastrophe reinsurance industry." While the majority of Amundi's ILS portfolio ...

ESG engagement key to small cap value: Perennial Value Management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 NOV 2019  |  NEWS
... companies making a positive impact on sustainable outcomes, according to Perennial Value Management. Damian Cottier, portfolio manager, Perennial Value Management Perennial Value Management integrates ESG considerations into its investment process through ...

Sustainalytics hires Jodie Tapscott as head of Australasia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 28 NOV 2019  |  NEWS
... developing and delivering the wealth management group's responsible investment strategy. Before that, Tapscott was a senior portfolio manager at AMP Capital Investors, where she oversaw the investment governance of the firm's suite of investment and ...

TCorp issues record-breaking $1.8bn Sustainability Bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 NOV 2019  |  NEWS
... light green investors. This issue attracted an investor base with an overarching ESG stewardship applied over the whole portfolio" Trigona said. "These investors were seeking assets with a green or ESG focus." Five new sustainable water and wastewater ...