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Man Group appoints Jason Mitchell co-head of responsible investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2018  |  NEWS
... investment at Man Group since 2010. Mitchell also serves on the Advisory Board of Imperial College Business School's Centre for Climate Finance and Investment, and is a member of the PRI Academic Advisory Committee, the PRI Macroeconomic Risk Advisory ...

Finance sector calls for development of Sustainable Finance Roadmaps

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUL 2018  |  NEWS
... number of governments around the world establishing frameworks to align banking, insurance and investment with the UN Climate Change and Sustainable Development Goals is important for the global shift to an inclusive, resilient and low-carbon economy." ...

ASX200 stocks with strong ESG performance outperform: Regnan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2018  |  NEWS
... exposures and responses into single scores for specific themes - such as ethics and conduct, workplace health and safety, climate change and board management - and into top level E, S and G scores, expressing Regnan's judgement across those categories," ...

ACSI to expand research, analyst team

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2018  |  NEWS
... growing, and we want to grow the team to meet that, he said. "We're also looking at more issues - it's not just governance or climate risk. It's things like modern slavery, franchising, capital raising. We want to do justice to those and have an impact." ...

New Forests acquires New Zealand assets, closes ANZFF2 fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2018  |  NEWS
... bringing additional private capital to our investment strategies in Southeast Asia and to our growing United States forest climate solutions investment program."

Reports analyse landscape for sustainability disclosures by corporate Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2018  |  NEWS
Australian companies continue to improve their sustainability reporting, with focus on environmental issues such as climate change and water, however there are still laggards that are not reporting sufficiently or at all on sustainability issues, according ...

Institutional investors step up engagement as part of Climate Action 100+ initiative

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2018  |  NEWS
... UniSuper have scaled up engaging with "systematically important" greenhouse gas emitting companies globally under the Climate Action 100+ initiative. Climate Action 100+ was launched in December 2017 at the One Planet Summit, and is backed by 289 investors ...

Super funds continue to expand responsible investment activities: RIAA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUN 2018  |  NEWS
... is progress still to be made, however. While 64% of boards are actively considering ESG, including an explicit focus on climate risk, a third of trustees are not. Meanwhile, 10 funds identify climate change risk as a key consideration in strategic asset ...

IGCC, global investors urge G7 to step up game on Paris Agreement

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUN 2018  |  NEWS
... their actions to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement, support investment in the low-carbon transition and improve climate-related financial disclosures. Emma Herd, chief executive officer of the Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC) The statement ...

Nanuk Asset Management explores themes underpinning New World Fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAY 2018  |  NEWS
... gold rush." On the flip side,, Nanuk excludes more than 1700 companies from investment, formalised around three areas - climate change, fossil fuels and environment, weapons, and ethical values and human rights. Nanuk also aligns its investments to the ...