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Mercer to analyse climate change portfolio risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... report, Mercer clients have continued to become more exposed to information around climate change and its risks to investments. Birgden pointed to the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report and its modelling information as one source of research that trustees ...

Investors commit to growing green bond market

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... ACTIAM. "Acting on clients' behalf and as key economic players, investors do have a responsibility to take. Gigantic investments are needed. These amounts are investments yielding a return, they are not costs. To provide the necessary capital, we need ...

Advisory Board's bold strategy to increase impact investing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... Australian public - the Financial System Inquiry interim report released earlier this year addressed barriers to impact investments and solicits additional feedback from stakeholders. "We need to look at both of those dimensions - the hard and soft levers ...

Sustainalytics hires Cheryl Gustitus

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... Shareholder Services (ISS), a leading proxy advisory firm. Previously, she has worked for T. Rowe Price and Calvert Investments. "We are thrilled to have Cheryl bring three decades of institutional level marketing experience to our executive team," said ...

MSCI assesses future carbon exposure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... information such as the data found in the MSCI ESG CarbonMetrics products, it is possible for investors to tilt their investments in a way that reduces carbon exposure in measured ways. For example, there are only 26 companies in the ACWI that own coal ...

KPMG proposes framework to analyse externalities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... that analytical guidance to companies. "What this paper puts forward is to provide a framework to connect the effort/investments undertaken to mitigate externalities with the true value or benefit of carrying out these actions in financial terms," Woo ...

AMP Capital reviews corporate governance activities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... Capital corporate governance manager. "When considering investment opportunities, AMP Capital has a broad pool of investments from which we can choose. If all other factors were equal, we would prefer to invest in the 'better' governed companies/markets ...

Local property companies continue GRESB outperformance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... data to the industry," said Nils Kok, GRESB's executive director. Institutional investors use GRESB's data to assess investments in commercial real estate. "We believe that there is sufficient data available to show that sustainability, and especially ...

AMP Capital invests in Alterra Power Corporation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... infrastructure debt investing both in terms of investor interest and deal flow and look forward to making additional investments in other high-quality assets in the region." The loan facility will be secured against a 264 MW portfolio of equity interests ...

UCA Funds Management appoint independent directors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... Institute and has more than 40 years' financial services experience. He retired as regional head, Asia, of First State Investments in 2010 and has held a number of non-executive directorships, currently holding directorships with Lionport Asia Fund and ...