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ESG standards improving in emerging markets: T. Rowe Price

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 NOV 2019  |  NEWS
... improving, and form an important part of the investment framework for value investing, said T. Rowe Price. Irmak Surenkok, portfolio specialist in the Equity Division at T. Rowe Price. In a recent paper, I n Emerging Markets, Does It Pay to Worry About ...

Fiduciary duty, regulatory environment top ESG push factors: SSGA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 NOV 2019  |  NEWS
Fiduiary duty and a growing regulatory environment are the top factors pushing institutional investors to adopt environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) strategies, according to State Street Global Advisors (SSGA). Rakhi Kumar, Managing ...

Sustainable Digitalisation Project to set goals for real estate and cities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 NOV 2019  |  NEWS
... and assess the level of trust put into a technology, and for investors to assess the level of risk in their property/portfolio/investment managers." The third initiative is the Sustainable Digitalisation Investment Indicators, to establish a useful framework ...

Willis Towers Watson launches Australian Global Equity Focus Fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 NOV 2019  |  NEWS
... (GEFF), a multi-manager fund that integrates GEFF is able to incorporate ESG and sustainable principles. Stuart Gray, portfolio manager for GEFF GEFF has attracted seed funding of $150 million, and is aimed at institutional wholesale investors - super ...

AMP Capital launches 2030 ESG strategy for real estate business

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 NOV 2019  |  NEWS
... emissions - to create a biodiversity conservation reserve that is equivalent in area to its entire managed real estate portfolio - more than four million square metres. - to improve accessibility for the one in five people who have a disability across ...

VicSuper: $3 billion in assets linked to sustainable outcomes

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 NOV 2019  |  NEWS
... had hit a 2020 target of $3 billion in sustainable outcomes one year early, representing 12% of its entire investment portfolio. This year's annual report covers not only VicSuper's process of responsible investment and the amounts invested in those ...

HESTA allocates $200m to healthcare property mandate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 OCT 2019  |  NEWS
... Blakey said. Investing in healthcare and aged care property brings diversification benefits to the overall HESTA property portfolio, said Sonya Sawtell-Rickson, HESTA CIO. "Healthcare and aged care property assets are not as exposed to the economic cycle ...

Quantitative managers test ESG data as stand-alone factor in strategies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 OCT 2019  |  NEWS
... managers are exploring whether ESG is a separate factor as an investment characteristic among stocks. Machiel Zwanenburg, portfolio manager, Robeco Quantitative investment managers tell The Sustainability Report that ESG considerations are part of their ...

Colonial First State launches Baillie Gifford Global Stewardship Fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 OCT 2019  |  NEWS
... the launch of the Baillie Gifford Global Stewardship Fund. The fund "gives investors access to a stock-driven global portfolio that combines the best elements of stewardship, governance, and specialist regional expertise to invest in responsible growth ...

Rainmaker Group acquires The Sustainability Report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2019  |  NEWS
Financial services information publishing company Rainmaker Group has acquired sustainable investment specialist publications The Sustainability Report and Audacious Investing. Rachel Alembakis, founder, The Sustainability Report Effective 1 October ...