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LUCRF selects Northern Trust for ESG-screened mandate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
... an AU$220 million global equity index mandate that incorporates the fund's environmental, social and governance (ESG) screens. The AU$4 billion industry superannuation fund has tapped Northern Trust to run the global ex-Australia fund with customised ...

Combining quality measures with ESG can yield higher returns

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 APR 2014  |  NEWS
... client concerns about ESG strategy - the risk that ESG portfolios are overly concentrated. "If you simply use negative screens or some other basic limitation to ESG, you tend to underweight energy, you tend to underweight materials, you tend to underweight ...

ESG integration into quantitative investment management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
... Government Super (LGS) gave SSgA a mandate to manage an AU$780 million Australian equities mandate that will include ESG screens, a mandate that Bill Hartnett, head of sustainability at LGS, called "enhanced passive." Screening out classes of equities ...

Ethical Investment Advisers launches fossil-fuel free SMA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
... are a mix of some large caps and predominately smaller cap stocks, she said. The Ethical Investment Advisers Mid-Cap SMA screens out fossil fuel investments, including oil, gas, coal and coal seam gas, tobacco, uranium mining, and weapons, and holds ...

VicSuper chooses SSgA for active global equities ESG mandate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
... Super (LGS) announced it had selected SSgA to manage an AU$780 million Australian equities mandate that will include ESG screens. The mandate was labeled an "enhanced passive" strategy that will conform with LGS's environmental, social and governance ...

Northern Trust develops emerging markets low CO2 fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... Services (ISS) and it had created the first emerging markets custom index to incorporate environmental social and governance screens. "Combining return seeking assets with ESG criteria is a trend that continues to grow as institutional investors realise ...

UCA Funds Management holds first investor briefing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... anywhere between 20-40 companies, Baster said. UCA Funds Management are ethical investors and use both negative and positive screens to eliminate some companies and pursue others that have strong ESG components. Baster demonstrated UCA Funds Management's ...

Local Government Super selects SSgA for equities mandate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... selected State Street Global Advisors (SSgA) to manage an AU$780 million Australian equities mandate that will include ESG screens. Bill Hartnett The mandate was labeled an "enhanced passive" strategy that will conform with LGS's environmental, social ...

Barclays and MSCI launch ESG Fixed Income Indices

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
... variety of objectives. Hence, the three families represent three use cases." Barclays MSCI SRI Indices use classic negative screens, she said. "The SRI family of indices is really focused on negative exclusion," Nishikawa said. "Whether it's the Barclays ...

Ethinvest model portfolios outperform wider ASX indices

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... investment, superannuation and pension platform. Both the ASX50 and ASX100 model portfolios are constructed around negative screens. Companies that are given a red rating - companies that Etinvest deems as being damaging to people or the environment ...