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Corporate culture a factor in stock selection: WCM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2019  |  NEWS
Evaluating corporate culture is "one of the most important factors to consider" when picking stocks, according to WCM Investment Management. Rolf Kelly, portfolio manager and business analyst, WCM As investors, as well as the wider community, digest ...

Institutional Shareholder Services purchases CAER

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2019  |  NEWS
... primary research locally in the market," said Marija Kramer, ISS ESG managing director. "We do our Japanese coverage out of Japan, we do our continental Europe research out of a couple of hubs there. It made all the sense in the world cover Australia ...

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

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 DEC 2018  |  NEWS
Investors can unlock "significant positive alpha" by combining big data mining techniques and traditional ESG ratings, according to TruValue Labs. TruValue Labs, a San Francisco based research firm that uses artificial intelligence to analyze and interpret ...

BlackRock Real Assets names Charlie Reid to lead Asia-Pac renewables

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2018  |  NEWS
... management. The team has invested in more than 250 wind and solar projects globally, with 40 projects in Asia Pacific - Australia, Japan and Taiwan. This represents close to 5 gigawatts of capacity, able to generate clean energy to power over 3 million ...

Cbus becomes Australian Asset Owner Stewardship Code signatory

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 OCT 2018  |  NEWS
... funds are expected to sign before the end of 2018. Stewardship codes are in place in the United Kingdom, United States, Japan, Hong Kong and South Africa. This is the first stewardship code to focus exclusively on the activities of Australian asset owners. ...

40% of Chinese Coal Power Plants are Losing Money: Carbon Tracker

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 16 OCT 2018  |  NEWS
... us is to expand this methodology to other markets where data isn't at appropriate standards, like India, South East Asia, Japan, countries in Africa - more or less everywhere except the EU and US," Gray said. "There are different reasons why this happens. ...

GPIF selects S&P Down Jones Indices for ESG benchmarks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2018  |  NEWS
The Government Pension Investment Fund for Japan (GPIF) has selected two carbon efficient indices from S&P Dow Jones Indices (S&P DJI) as the benchmark for their ESG investment strategy. S&P DJI has launched the S&P Global Carbon Efficient Indices include ...

WorldGBC launches Net Zero Carbon Buildings Commitment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2018  |  NEWS
... Medellin, Colombia; Montreal, Toronto & Vancouver, Canada; Paris, France; Stockholm, Sweden; Sydney, Australia; and Tokyo, Japan. "At the City of Sydney, we've been carbon neutral since 2007, and certified since 2011," said Clover Moore, Lord Mayor of ...

Climate Bond Initiative identifies nearly 400 green infrastructure projects

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 AUG 2018  |  NEWS
Despite the strong issuance of green bonds in Australia and New Zealand, both counties need to muster more capital allocation to generate investment in green infrastructure to meet international mitigation and emissions commitments, according to the ...

bfinance analyses ESG integration activities of Japanese active equity managers

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2018  |  NEWS
More of Japan's active equity managers are integrating environmental, social and governance (ESG) into their investment processes, but the balance of activity is in the corporate governance side, according to analysis from manager research and selection ...