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ESG analysis important to emerging market credit: Insight Investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2018  |  NEWS
... could be acquisitive and happy to take on debt to fund activity, which is a potential landmine." Insight Investment uses MSCI as a data provider to evaluate ESG risk and also conducts its own analysis on companies to determine how material ESG issues ...

Examining the corporate governance implications of share buybacks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2018  |  NEWS
... There is not a lot of research on a link between share buybacks and total shareholder return or long-term corporate strategy. MSCI has recently conducted an analysis of US listed companies to determine if there is a correlation between share buybacks ...

Video: Responsible Investment Coming of Age - Full Panel Discussion

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAR 2018  |  NEWS
... of the responsible investment industry "coming of age", with expert opinions from Michael Salvatico, Executive Director, MSCI; Alice Cope, Executive Manager Global Compact Network Australia; James Wright, Chief Investment Officer, JBWere and Simon O'Connor ...

Vision Super publishes Corporate Responsibility report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 JAN 2018  |  NEWS
... Super has also focused on the carbon intensity of its equities portfolio. The fund benchmarked its portfolio against the MSCI Global Carbon Benchmark, and has asked its external managers to manage their holdings towards those benchmarks. Vision Super ...

UCA Funds Management hires Mathew Browning as new CEO

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 DEC 2017  |  NEWS
... manager focused on global healthcare equities targeting both wholesale and retail investors. The fund doubled the return of the MSCI World Health Care Index over four years. "It is a great privilege to have been selected to lead UCA Funds Management ...

ESG integration comes into its own in fixed income portfolios: RIAA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  SUNDAY, 19 NOV 2017  |  NEWS
... portfolios at RIAA 2017 Conference (L-R: Loren Sageser, Product Strategist - ESG, PIMCO; Mervyn Tang, Vice President ESG Research, MSCI; Yen Wong, Head of Credit Research, Altius Asset Management; Moderator: Laurence Davison, Managing Editor, Kanga News. ...

Russell Investments launches Low Carbon Global Shares Fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 OCT 2017  |  NEWS
... the Low Carbon Global Shares Fund, designed to reduce the exposure to carbon emissions and carbon reserves by 50% of the MSCI ACWI benchmark. James Harwood, portfolio manager, Russell Investments The fund uses Russell Investment's proprietary decarbonisation ...

SSGA Global Index Plus Trust to exclude tobacco, controversial weapons

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 SEP 2017  |  NEWS
... invests in global companies and seeks an investment return that modestly exceeds, before expenses, the performance of the MSCI World ex-Australia Index over the long term. "The impetus in Australia has certainly come from what we've seen in our institutional ...

Colonial First State Global Asset Management publish stewardship report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUL 2017  |  NEWS
... process has been a real enhancement in the way that we consider these complex issues." Also in 2016, CFSGAM has appointed MSCI to provide carbon emissions and fossil fuel data, which CFSGAM will use both internally and for client reporting purposes. ...

Parametric explores integration of responsible investing in peer-constrained world

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUL 2017  |  NEWS
... outcomes. "For example, consider the impact of a tobacco and controversial weapons screen on a superannuation fund with a MSCI world ex-Australia equity portfolio," the paper said. "In this portfolio over the past five years, this screen had a very small ...