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RIAA to engage NZ investors on climate change, investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
New Zealand investment management professionals will debate climate change and unburnable carbon among other topics at the Responsible Investment Association Australasia (RIAA) briefing in Auckland today. Simon O'Connor, RIAA CEO The 4 th annual Responsible ...

Ethinvest rallies support for BHP Billiton board candidate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... remuneration reports, but shareholder concerns are far broader than just the governance issues - the environmental and the social issues are significant. This campaign will help identify the disparate dynamics at play with shareholder votes, and I am ...

MSCI launches MSCI ESG DataMetrics

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... has launched MSCI ESG DataMetrics, a comprehensive set of metrics to facilitate quantitative analysis of environmental, social and environmental data. MSCI ESG DataMetrics can be used in the development of proprietary ESG models and reporting on ESG ...

Northern Trust: investor call for ESG data in private equity

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... refining their limited partnership agreements prior to investing in unlisted private equity funds to reflect environmental, social and governance exclusions and considerations, according to Paul Finlayson, senior vice president, product manager, asset ...

GRI names Christianna Wood chairman of board

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... sustainability reporting will increasingly equip companies to recognize and manage the complexities of global environmental, social and economic relations and where reporting is set to become standard practice for large companies." The six board members ...

LGS invests in US$250 million EBRD green bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... bonds mandate to specialist investment manager Omega Global Investors. The strategy explicitly incorporates environmental, social and governance (ESG) analysis into the selection process, including a specific allocation of up to 15% invested in "green" ...

Northern Trust develops emerging markets low CO2 fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... greenhouse gas emissions and companies that have extensive reserves of fossil fuels, and incorporating other environmental, social and governance factors, Northern Trust said. The fund is a new sub-fund of an existing Irish UCITS umbrella fund known ...

New co-op body to stress economic, social value of model

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... in Australia to raise the profile of the co-operative and mutual business model, which proponents say inherently melds social and economic goals while contributing to a diversified economy. Melina Morrison, BCCM CEO (Photo courtesy of BCCM) The recently ...

Westpac, CBA raise $10 million for Benevolent Society SBB

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... Westpac Institutional Bank, Commonwealth Bank of Australia and The Benevolent Society have raised AU$10 million for its social benefit bond (SBB). The funds raised by the SBB will go towards establishing The Resilient Families preservation service, which ...

Standard Life hires Amanda Young as head of SRI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... important part of our Focus on Change investment process. We strongly believe that companies with robust environmental and social practices will enjoy long term financial benefits and we seek to encourage such practices with a view to protecting and ...