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Teachers Mutual Bank receives RIAA certification for products

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2019  |  NEWS
Teachers Mutual Bank's retail deposits, mortgages and wholesale funding vehicles have been certified under by the Responsible Investment Association Australasia (RIAA). Steve James, CEO, Teachers Mutual Bank RIAA Certification means that the products ...

Core Civic, GEO Group flagged for ESG controversies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 OCT 2018  |  NEWS
... (formerly Transfield Services) before its takeover by Ferrovial, and UCA Funds Management added Broadspectrum to its exclusion list. Other funds engaged with the companies on the contract. Ultimately, Ferrovial and Wilson Security did not choose to renew ...

Vanguard Australia licenses FTSE Russell index for ESG-related products

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 AUG 2018  |  NEWS
Vanguard Australia has licenses a new "values aligned" index from FTSE Russell the FTSE Developed ex Australia ex Non-Renewable Energy/Vice Products/Weapons Index. The index will form the basis for two Vanguard ESG-related products. It is the first ...

Man Group to augment responsible investment, stewardship activities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 AUG 2018  |  NEWS
... said. "There's a strong interest to define ESG consistently and credibly across a number of factors, be it more enhanced exclusion, much more enhanced reporting around ESG characteristics, and also a pronounced tilt towards better governance. There are ...

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

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2018  |  NEWS
... (formerly Transfield Services) before its takeover by Ferrovial, and UCA Funds Management added Broadspectrum to its exclusion list. Other funds engaged with the companies on the contract. Ultimately, Ferrovial and Wilson Security did not choose to renew ...

Super funds continue to expand responsible investment activities: RIAA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUN 2018  |  NEWS
A strong majority of Australian superannuation have their full board or board committees overseeing environmental, social and corporate governance risks and opportunities, according to the Responsible Investment Association Australasia (RIAA) Super ...

SSGA launches State Street Low Carbon ESG International Equities Index Trust

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2018  |  NEWS
State Street Global Advisors (SSGA) has evolved one of its international equities indices to reduce carbon emissions and reserves intensity by 50%. Susan Darroch, head of Global Equity BetaSolutions, Asia ex Japan, State Street Global Advisors The State ...

Man Group analyses tobacco considerations in investment strategy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 APR 2018  |  NEWS
Global fund manager Man Group is considering the impacts of divestment from tobacco as part of its broader approach to responsible investing. Jason Mitchell, sustainability strategist, Man Group, The fund manager does not have a blanket policy of divestment ...

Increasing financial inclusion could yield increasing revenue to banks: EY

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 25 JAN 2018  |  NEWS
... financial inclusion." What big banks lack in certain cases is the agility to implement programs targeting financial exclusion, and therefore are vulnerable to losing consumers to alternative platforms like peer-to-peer lending apps. Bellens notes that ...

NZ Super to exclude companies in recreational cannabis industry

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 DEC 2017  |  NEWS
... exclude companies involved in the recreational cannabis industry, the fund has announced. NZ Super specified that the exclusion is just for recreational cannabis, while companies involved in licensed and authorised medicinal cannabis are not excluded. ...