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Nuveen secures $150m in commitments for Global Impact Strategy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... scale. It's a very simple motivation. We have the conviction that investing in solutions for people and climate brings strong risk-adjusted returns. The wider market has woken up to this in the past six years, but to us, it's a continued belief in this." ...

Three lessons when assessing ESG risks: Insight Investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... provider, and our judgement of the relative data quality led to a governance rating in the second percentile. In our view, the risk assessments concerning accounting practices provide an important insight. We believe past exposure to serious governance ...

Bond investor sues Australian government

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... sister publication the Financial Standard. A 23 year old woman is suing the Australian government, claiming climate change risk was not disclosed properly when she invested in exchange traded bonds. Kathleen (Katta) O'Donnell is being represented by ...

UK pension fund to divest half its portfolio

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
This article was written by Jamie Williamson and originally appeared in sister publication Financial Standard. The UK's National Employment Savings Trust, known as NEST, will immediately shift close to half of its entire portfolio to climate aware strategies ...

Majority of asset owners identify ESG importance: bfinance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... services to investors in more than 35 countries, including manager research and selection, portfolio strategy and design, risk analytics, fee benchmarking, performance monitoring and more. The ESG observations were part of a wider set of questions in ...

State Street Global Advisors to list new ESG ETF on ASX

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... S&P/ASX 200 Index," according to State Street Global Advisors. E200 will provide access to improved ESG exposure with a similar risk-return profile to the S&P/ASX200 Index, said Meaghan Victor, head of SPDR ETF Asia Pacific distribution. "For the last ...

Sefa to increase financing to social enterprises and build resilience

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... purpose-driven organisations that's 50% guaranteed by government," said Hanna Ebeling, Sefa CEO. "It allow us to take a little more risk around the portfolio, but most importantly, this is also good for the organisations that they have the six months' ...

ARENA grants additional funding for Monash Uni renewables study

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... technical analysis is specialised and it takes a lot of time and skill to get it right. If the analysis reveals potential risk of problems, the development of solutions takes even more time and the dedication of even more highly specialised scarce resources. ...

ESG ETP assets under management triple in last three years: Research

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... performance, grows and becomes more robust over time, and clearly demonstrates that with ESG investing comes that kind of better risk-adjusted returns, I think that will drive the demand going forward."

Taking a closer look at corporate lobbying on climate change

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... effective climate change policy, it creates risks in investor portfolios. It exposes these portfolios to weather-related risk - as evidenced by the devastating bushfires that swept through Australia in early 2020. It exposes the companies in these portfolios ...