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RealIndex appoints former Acadian executive

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 17 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
Systematic equities manager Realindex Investments has hired Joanna Nash to the newly created role of senior quantitative portfolio manager. Nash has 13 years' quantitative investment experience including senior roles at Acadian, where she was a ...

Global sustainability standards bodies launch shared vision, goals

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 17 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
Five global organisations responsible for setting sustainability-related frameworks and standards have joined together to publish a shared vision for what is needed for more comprehensive corporate reporting. CDP, the Climate Disclosure Standards Board ...

Investors welcome Rio resignations

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 11 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... disaster at Juukan Gorge." "Rio Tinto now has the opportunity to address the necessary remediation, cultural heritage and risk processes with fresh eyes." Davidson called on Rio Tinto to prioritise working with traditional owners the Puutu Kunti Kurrama ...

Substantial investment needed for sustainable infrastructure: RARE Infrastructure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... the companies' investment programs, how it might impact their valuations over the long term, and that way we can take a risk adjusted approach to demining returns on equity," said Nick Langley, co-founder and senior portfolio manager RARE. "Essentially ...

U Ethical hires two to investments team

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... ESG Resarch, where she was ESG consultant. She assisted clients "with deeper insights into the drivers of performance and risk in investment portfolios, offering broad asset class coverage and innovative research." She has expertise in environmental ...

Brambles reports progress on 2020 sustainability goals

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... That's something they participated in which is fantastic." In its TCFD report, Brambles also identified supply material risk - specifically timber for pallets -as a long-term climate related risk. This includes price and availability of timber supply ...

GreenCollar secures funding for Queensland carbon farming projects

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... the 28kms stretch of Burdekin River Assisting to stabilise soil and retain vegetation cover to significantly reducing the risk of sediment mobilisation to a Great Barrier Reef management priority river. Forest Retention Project (Coverty QLD) 15,000 total ...

Cbus Super announces net zero portfolio emissions target

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... look at all future developments in that regard." Cbus has analytical tools to hand to evaluate the data relating to climate risk on portfolios - Fok cited MSCI as one data provider for the equities portfolio. "A lot of the work that we're doing over ...

AAIB, Amundi launch climate investment framework

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... AIIB will soon announce a Climate Change Investment Framework designed to help investors holistically assess climate change risk and transition opportunities at the issuer-level for the first time." More than a quarter of the world's heaviest-emitting ...

Paradice Investment Management appoint head of ESG

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... their environmental and social impacts effectively, or that fail to adopt robust ethical policies and governance practices, risk suffering direct financial harm or damage to their reputations. I am of the strong opinion that a business' intentional ...