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Paper guides investors to ESG investment integration

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
... emerging industries such as renewable energies. One of the key points the MSCI paper highlights as an argument in favour of investing with ESG factors in mind is the fact that universal owners are exposed to "portfolio externalities" -"spillover production ...

Carbon price will capture mines' fugitive emissions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
... states. "A number of mining firms including Xstrata, Rio Tinto, Centennial, Anglo American, and BHP Billiton are already investing significant funds in the development of these new abatement technologies. The scale of the existing investment is already ...

Forthcoming GRESB report to benchmark RE environmental, social performance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
... than the energy savings, there is a direct return when you sell the building. On the other hand, the downside is that investing in a building that's inefficient there is the downside risk of lower growth." While higher standards for new buildings ensure ...

Imbalances, sustainability and their impact on investing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
Although sustainability/ESG considerations and sovereign defaults are not, at first pass, connected to each other, when Tim Hodgson, senior investment consultant and head of Towers Watson's Thinking Ahead Group talks about both, the word "imbalances" ...

Institutional investors begin analysis of carbon tax impact

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
... their portfolio against the downside of carbon intensive companies in their portfolio," she said. "Many super funds are investing in these kinds of issues in mind already. The impact won't be great, one would think. For some funds, the market signal ...

CBRE certified carbon neutral in Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
... programs, such as green leasing standards and sustainable operation protocols, and then offsetting the remainder by investing in carbon mitigation projects, such as conservation-based forest initiatives, landfill methane destruction and sustainability ...

Solaris Investment Management appoint ESG analyst

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
... parties concerned. It involves consciously identifying material ESG-related issues that might affect stock performance and investing using such issues as criteria."

Investor Profile: Victorian Funds Management Corporation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
... account in our decision making where it is material and we can get information on it. We distinguish it from ethical investing. Basically at the end of the day, what we're looking at is making better, more informed decisions.. There's a lack of mandatory ...

Benchmarking superannuation funds' sustainability performance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
... Nathan MacPhee, CEO of SuperRatings. "We use three areas when we assess the level of super funds," he said. "First is investing - clearly, you have to invest in a sustainable manner. But investing alone isn't enough. We think funds internal behaviour ...

Mercer: providing education and intervention on ESG

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
... funds that want to implement ESG principles in their investment decision making. Helga Birgden, head of responsible investing for Asia Pacific at Mercer "We do provide a lot of different interventions if you like and a lot of education," said Helga Birgden ...