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Barclays and MSCI launch ESG Fixed Income Indices

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
... variety of objectives. Hence, the three families represent three use cases." Barclays MSCI SRI Indices use classic negative screens, she said. "The SRI family of indices is really focused on negative exclusion," Nishikawa said. "Whether it's the Barclays ...

Ethinvest model portfolios outperform wider ASX indices

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... investment, superannuation and pension platform. Both the ASX50 and ASX100 model portfolios are constructed around negative screens. Companies that are given a red rating - companies that Etinvest deems as being damaging to people or the environment ...

Northern Trust launches emerging markets ESG index, fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
Northern Trust has created an emerging markets equities index integrating environmental, social and governance (ESG) screens and has launched a passive pooled fund managed to the index. Northern Trust has built the index in collaboration with MSCI ESG ...

The hidden movement: how responsible brands strike back

STEPHEN HALE  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... creep up on them? Can they talk the language of the hidden movement? Will they give into the political and media smoke screens? Will technology 'out' any of their brands' dirty little secrets? Gen Y (now 18-34 years old) is the most interested demographic ...

Dalton Nicol Reid: using ESG to find sustainable earnings

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... its socially responsible investment (SRI) portfolio, which uses 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 ...

Future Fund excludes tobacco producers from portfolio

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... investments in tobacco. The governance committee was also given the task of considering the costs and implications of negative screens as well as the board's ability, given its responsibilities and obligations, to make exclusions. The committee has not ...

Cruelty Free Super celebrates second birthday

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
... superannuation requirement to maximise long term returns for members with an investment philosophy that puts positive and negative screens on investments. The fund uses independent trustees Grosvenor Pirie Management while Coates's UK-based Ethical Money ...

Superannuation to heed call for greater disclosure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... different levels of ethical investing and sustainability and sustainable investing and the different levels of ethical screens, you've got what I call the light green to the deep green investors. When you've got that sort of approach, then it's important ...