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GPIF selects S&P Down Jones Indices for ESG benchmarks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2018  |  NEWS
... economies." The indices are "designed to reduce exposure to high-carbon companies in a systematic way, while maintaining a risk/return profile similar to that of their benchmarks," according to S&P DJI. The indices adjust constituents' weights according ...

United Nations Development Programme launches SDG Impact

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2018  |  NEWS
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has launched SDG Impact, an initiative designed to help channel private investment and capital into the achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). "As outlined in the Secretary-General's vision ...

ASIC report finds 17% of ASX300 identify climate as material risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2018  |  NEWS
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has issued its first report on climate risk disclosures by ASX300 companies. While the statistics discussed in the report are familiar to those who have read similar reports by investment bodies ...

Future Business Generation outlines Millennial climate risk concerns

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2018  |  NEWS
Future Business Generation has called on the superannuation industry to provide more sophistication in climate risk assessment and management, on behalf of Millennials that will retire in the post-2030 world. Oshadee Siyaguna, committee member of Future ...

Willis Towers Watson, MSCI launch Adaptive Capped ESG Universal Index

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2018  |  NEWS
... ESG Universal Index invests in both developed and emerging markets with a diversified portfolio that is designed to spread risk and capital more evenly between stocks, while also investing in companies with strong and improving ESG factors. "We've seen ...

Local Government Super becomes signatory to Green Bond Pledge

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2018  |  NEWS
... that all bonds financing long-term infrastructure and capital projects need to address environmental impacts and climate risk, reflecting "the goals of the Paris agreement, and ask[ing] cities, county and state governments, and corporations to account ...

ACCR files resolution to Qantas AGM over deportations and removals

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2018  |  NEWS
... activity it is involved in as a service provider to the Australian Department of Home Affairs." "Our concern is the business risk to Qantas over the activities relating to deporting or forcibly transferring people as part of a service agreement with ...

Local Government Super selects PIMCO for fixed income ESG mandate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 AUG 2018  |  NEWS
Local Government Super (LGS) has awarded a new, $440 million fixed-income ESG mandate to investment manager PIMCO. The mandate will cover global credit and government bonds, LGS said. "We are pleased to continue our long standing relationship with PIMCO," ...

Pauline Vamos resigns as chief executive officer of Regnan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 AUG 2018  |  NEWS
Pauline Vamos has resigned as CEO of Regnan. Pauline Vamos, Regnan chief executive Vamos has worked as CEO for 12 months, and the Regnan board "thanks Ms Vamos for her significant contribution to Regnan over the last 12 months and the leadership she ...

US activists target banks over finance to for-profit prisons, detention centres

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2018  |  NEWS
... planning to leverage their own bases to engage with companies, and raise the issues of corporate responsibility and reputational risk more broadly. "We're representing the moms of America who are concerned about the harm that these for-profit incarceration ...