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AMP Capital lists fossil fuel exclusions for RIL funds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
... In addition to the new fossil fuel exclusions, the fund also excludes companies that have more than a 10% exposure to tobacco, nuclear power, including uranium, armaments, gambling, alcohol and pornography. This range stands alone, but AMP Capital also ...

LUCRF selects Northern Trust for ESG-screened mandate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
... industry superannuation fund has tapped Northern Trust to run the global ex-Australia fund with customised screens to exclude tobacco companies and cluster munitions manufacturers, in line with LUCRF's ESG policy and its commitments as a signatory to ...

Norton Rose Fulbright: trustees must consider climate change

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 APR 2014  |  NEWS
... de Wit, climate change partner at Norton Rose Fulbright, likened the burgeoning carbon divestment movement to the anti-tobacco investment movement and the anti-apartheid movement from the 80s that pressed investors such as pension funds to divest from ...

ESG integration into quantitative investment management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
... that Bill Hartnett, head of sustainability at LGS, called "enhanced passive." Screening out classes of equities linked to tobacco or controversial weapons is one technique for managing ESG exposures, and it is an extensively used technique, said Jon ...

Ethical Investment Advisers launches fossil-fuel free SMA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
... Ethical Investment Advisers Mid-Cap SMA screens out fossil fuel investments, including oil, gas, coal and coal seam gas, tobacco, uranium mining, and weapons, and holds companies in areas including aged care, sustainable property, healthcare, renewable ...

AMP Capital busts ESG myths

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 FEB 2014  |  NEWS
... different from ethical investment - mainly in how conclusions are reached. Carlsson-Sweeny cites an example of divestment from tobacco holdings. "While both an ethical investment strategy and sustainable investment strategy might avoid investments in ...

VicSuper chooses SSgA for active global equities ESG mandate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
... "proprietary dynamic alpha model," SSgA said. The portfolio will also exclude companies involved in the manufacture of tobacco products - in May of this year, VicSuper's trustees voted to gradually divest from holdings in tobacco products. At the time ...

Northern Trust: investor call for ESG data in private equity

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... manufacturers," Finlayson said. "Increasingly, around SRI and private equity, it tends to be thing around alcohol and tobacco, tends to be one where if companies are acting in the public interest - if you're a healthcare provider, and if you have an ...

NGS Super to launch stand-along SRI fund option

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... showed us that members say that SRI is more important to them than ESG and that an option that screened out armaments, tobacco and pornography would be very highly regarded." Based on that research, NGS Super is designing the SRI option with asset allocation ...

Cbus to divest from tobacco assets

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
Cbus will divest from its holdings in companies that manufacture tobacco products. The investment committee and board of the AU$23 billion industry superannuation fund made the decision based on the interests of members and their long-term investment ...