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Super funds continue to expand responsible investment activities: RIAA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUN 2018  |  NEWS
... implementation that's going on now." There is progress still to be made, however. While 64% of boards are actively considering ESG, including an explicit focus on climate risk, a third of trustees are not. Meanwhile, 10 funds identify climate change ...

Hedge funds allocate at least US$59bn to responsible investment: AIMA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUN 2018  |  NEWS
... Niche to Mainstream: Responsible Investment and Hedge Funds, https://www.aima.org/asset/1C78A41E-33B1-43AD-8CEDB4898F86D83D/ ESG integration was the most popular approach to responsible investment, comprising 37.5% of responses, with negative screening ...

Nanuk Asset Management explores themes underpinning New World Fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAY 2018  |  NEWS
... a "core sustainable investing approach," which is sustainably themed, uses positive and negative screening and integrates ESG factors. Earlier this year, the Responsible Investment Association of Australasia (RIAA), the peak body representing responsible ...

Alphinity Investment Management launches SDG-linked equity fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAY 2018  |  NEWS
... portfolio manager of the Alphininty SSF The Alphinity SSF is a diversified portfolio of Australian stocks that have strong ESG characteristics and, "where possible" contribute towards the advancement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, with a benchmark ...

Responsible investment to become "the new normal": AXA IM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2018  |  NEWS
... as the public become more attuned to and less tolerant of corporate misconduct." Christensen said that the convergence of ESG and impact investing is being driven by the language and framework of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) "Every investor ...

Climate-related shareholder resolutions put to Rio Tinto, QBE AGMs

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2018  |  NEWS
... for long term return. "In the case of both Rio Tinto and QBE, they're two companies that we had long-identified with high ESG risk, and no particularly strong and/or insufficient means for addressing them, " he said. "We had done engagement prior with ...

Ausbil outlines 2017 engagement activities in annual report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2018  |  NEWS
... has engaged with companies on human rights in supply chains, climate change, improved environmental, social and governance (ESG) disclosure, and corporate governance. Mans Carlsson-Sweeny, Ausbil The fund has issued its annual ESG engagement report ...

SSGA launches State Street Low Carbon ESG International Equities Index Trust

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2018  |  NEWS
... Susan Darroch, head of Global Equity BetaSolutions, Asia ex Japan, State Street Global Advisors The State Street Low Carbon ESG International Equities Index Trust is the next phase for an index fund launched 18months ago by State Street Global Advisors ...

ESG analysis important to emerging market credit: Insight Investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2018  |  NEWS
Environmental, social and governance (ESG) analysis is an important part of credit analysis for emerging market debt, according to Insight Investment. Insight Investment, a $1.012 trillion global asset manager owned by BNY Mellon, notes that they integrate ...

Rising importance of sustainability in the commercial real estate industry

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2018  |  NEWS
... financial performance of an organisation. Rather, they are increasingly also factoring in environmental, social and governance (ESG) disclosures as a critical way to measure risk and the drivers of a company's financial performance. The drivers The rise ...