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MSCI launches ESG portfolio analytics tool

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... how effectively ESG risks are taken into account," said Remy Briand, managing director and global head of index and ESG research. "MSCI ESG Portfolio Analytics provides a way for institutional investors to report and engage on ESG risks as it offers ...

Investor Profile: Five Oceans Asset Management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... concentrated portfolios; we're not index-relative. We invest in between 60-80 stocks in each fund. Q: how do you gather research? Do you use external providers or internal research capabilities? KT: We use both. Our first cut, if you like, is MSCI ESG ...

ACSI may name companies with poor sustainability disclosure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... sufficient level of disclosure on sustainability risk and disclosure "continues to be of questionable quality," according to research from the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI). The investor group has further warned that they will ...

IIRC to publish integrated reporting framework in 2013

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... recognise that investors are not the only target audience of an integrated report. "Given the nature of the responses, research will be undertaken on the commonality and differences between the information needs of investors (which include various types ...

AGL Energy, First Solar granted $130m for solar project

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... under the Education Investment Fund to the University of Queensland and University of New South Wales to conduct related research. The NSW Government has also committed to provide AU$64.9m to the project. In February of this year, the Department for ...

Investor Profile: Omega Global Investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... because these countries have a very good profile from purely a fundamental perspective. What we're doing now is some research into the causality. I can't think of an exception where a country that rates on ESG is bad from a fundamental perspective, but ...

LGS ESG sovereign debt strategy includes green bond tilt

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... awarded the government bonds mandate to specialist investment manager Omega Global Investors. LGS is also using external research provider MSCI's MSCI ESG research for sovereign ratings. The mandate commenced in mid-March. The sovereign ESG research ...

Banks' plans address Indigenous hiring, financial exclusion

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... partnerships plays into one of the other big themes common to reconciliation plans - increasing financial inclusion. Last year, research conducted by the Centre for Social Impact for NAB concluding that 2.6m adult Australians - one in seven adults - ...

Majority of ASX200 lack formal labour, human rights policies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... of their business performance, are also of an internationally competitive standard." The report, conducted by MSCI ESG Research and sponsored by LUCRF Super, analysed the public disclosures of ASX200 companies and compared their performance to global ...

Disruptive innovation, ESG factors pose media sector risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... companies are impacted by ethical and governance issues as well as industry-wide disruptive innovations, and investors should research carefully to avoid potential value traps, according to AMP Capital. Mans Carlsson-Sweeny The media sector is being ...