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Mercer: use responsible investment to reduce return leakage

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... required to ensure that all risks are "adequately and prudently considered". Climate change poses significant risks to investments, and therefore, Baker & McKenzie concludes, climate change should be considered and managed as part of their legal obligations. ...

Philanthropy Australia rolling out impact investing program

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... topics including how to approach an impact investment program, how to compare providers and vehicles and monitor their investments. Maxwell noted that there have been a number of developments in the impact investment space over the past five to 10 years ...

Dalton Nicol Reid: using ESG to find sustainable earnings

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... both overweights towards ESG outperformance and negative screens to eliminate undesired exposures. "In all of our investments, we seek to purchase quality companies," said Jamie Nicol, CIO of Dalton Nicol Reid. "We like to think about things like the ...

Future Fund excludes tobacco producers from portfolio

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... environmental, social and governance (ESG) matters. At that time, the board asked the governance committee to review its investments in tobacco. The governance committee was also given the task of considering the costs and implications of negative screens ...

Colonial First State GAM to drive further ESG integration

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... social and governance (ESG) into their investment process and wider business. Will Oulton CFSGAM, known as First State Investments outside of Australia/New Zealand, manages US$160 billion across a range of global asset classes and markets. The fund manager ...

LGS buys into IFC green bond issue

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... will be looking to diversify away from the currencies we own for in the green bonds," said Mathew McCrum, director, investments, at Omega. "At the moment, they're allocated in Australian dollars and Swedish kroner. This adds to that by adding the US ...

KPMG: fraud costs Australian/NZ businesses $373 million

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... improve co-ordination and case referral among commonwealth and state authorities; tap into the Australian Securities and Investments Commission's expertise in fighting corporate crime; and vigorously pursue false accounting cases." Even as the Australian ...

Australian Ethical survey identifies savings as top priority

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... identified looking after their finances as a top priority for 2013, and a majority say that it is important that their investments are aligned with their personal values, according to a survey conducted on behalf of Australian Ethical. The survey of ...

Jessica Robinson named ASrIA general manager

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... disclosure, regulatory reform and climate change engagement," Boakes Tracy said. See Also: US$178.5bn in sustainable investments in Australia

US$178.5bn in sustainable investments in Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
There are US$178.5bn of sustainable investments in Australia, representing about 18% of total assets under management, with integration of environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors being the single largest strategy employed by sustainable investors ...