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The price of climate change to impact portfolios: BlackRock

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 NOV 2015  |  NEWS
... used as a metric for physical and regulatory environmental risks, as a way to mine for alpha opportunities or "to reflect social values in portfolios." In one example, the report analyses the carbon intensity of an insurer's corporate debt portfolio ...

RIAA conference to discuss future of responsible investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2015  |  NEWS
... market, and to date, it's been driven by broad, strong institutional investment, and the acknowledgement that [environmental, social and governance] ESG risks are driving valuations. There's more and more evidence to support that, which has driven the ...

Cbus Super hires new investment manager - ESG

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2015  |  NEWS
... investment manager - ESG. Bradford comes to Cbus from GE Capital - Asia Pacific, where she worked as environmental and social risk leader. In that role, she was responsible for "identifying, managing and monitoring ESG risks that could result from environmental ...

Investors look at corporate governance metrics: BNP Paribas

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 NOV 2015  |  NEWS
The interrelation of environmental and social with corporate governance practices has been brought to the fore, institutional investors have told BNP Paribas Securities Services. Madhu Gayer, head of Asia Pacific investment reporting and performance ...

Mirvac marks strategic process in 2015 sustainability report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 NOV 2015  |  NEWS
... created by creating secure spaces is the subject of research that Mirvac is conducting with KPMG. KPMG is assessing the social return on investment in how good developments and design can reduce crime and costs and impacts of crime, Edwards said. In ...

Sustainability reporting improving, room to grow: WBCSD

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 NOV 2015  |  NEWS
... its full potential," said Peter Bakker, CEO and president, WBCSD. "At the WBCSD, we envision a world where natural and social capital measurement and valuation are an integral part of performance management. "The disclosure of non-financial information ...

Principles for Responsible Investment hire Kris Douma

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 NOV 2015  |  NEWS
... responsible investment policies for pension funds and implementation of responsible investment and integration of environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors across all asset classes. During that time, he was involved in several PRI initiatives ...

Citi joins Natural Capital Declaration

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2015  |  NEWS
... accountability for the impacts and dependencies of portfolio companies," according to the declaration. "Managing environmental and social risks associated with client transactions and increasing financing of environmentally sustainable business opportunities ...

Business response to climate change "creative self-destruction"

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 OCT 2015  |  NEWS
... explains the processes by which corporations respond to climate change, and the way in which corporations shape political and social responses to climate change. "We're not going to solve or avoid climate change - we're now in harm mitigation and how ...

Investors demanding better corporate ESG disclosure: EY

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 OCT 2015  |  NEWS
... nearly two thirds of respondents to an EY survey said that companies do not adequately disclose material environmental, social and governance (ESG) risks. Matthew Bell, EY Oceania climate change and sustainability leader Tomorrow's Investment Rules 2.0 ...