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New Forests releases 2013 sustainability report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2014  |  NEWS
Forestry and environmental markets fund manager New Forests has completed investing and closing in three funds in Australia and New Zealand and Asia and engaged in conservation and community engagement activities across its assets, the company reported ...

PRI launches guide to private equity and ESG integration

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2014  |  NEWS
The Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) have launched a guide covering integration of environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors in private equity. Integrating ESG in private equity - a guide for general partners is designed to give ...

Combining quality measures with ESG can yield higher returns

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 APR 2014  |  NEWS
Incorporating a quality factor overlay into a portfolio that integrates environmental, social and governance (ESG) metrics can add "significant excess return" to ESG portfolios, according to Northern Trust. Michael Hunstad, head of quantitative research ...

Margaret River Winery installs SunPower solar system

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 APR 2014  |  NEWS
... environment and this resulted in several years ago in us being awarded certification in FreshCare Code of Practice Environmental for wineries," Barrett said. "The continuing, escalating cost of power in Western Australia has been of real concern to us ...

Investors say non-financials matter in investment decisions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2014  |  NEWS
... evaluate non-financial disclosures and there are concerns about the materiality of companies' non-financial - i.e. environmental, social and governance - disclosures. The global survey of 163 institutional investors was conducted by Institutional Investor ...

PRI moving ahead with governance review, disclosure regime

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2014  |  NEWS
... activities, including voting and engagement; manager selection, appointment and monitoring; and the integration of environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors into investment decision-making processes and ownership practices. PRI has said that ...

Westpac signs on to Soft Commodities Compact

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2014  |  NEWS
... step forward for the global banking sector", and aligns with Westpac' strategic priority to "help find solutions to environmental challenges," said Siobhan Toohill, head of group sustainability and community. "Adopting this Compact means we'll be among ...

GRESB launches 2014 survey

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2014  |  NEWS
... strategies, policies and objectives and actions to implement those policies and to reach defined objectives. It measures environmental performance data regarding energy and water consumption, GHG emissions and waste, and investigates the use of voluntary ...

ASX includes ESG language in corporate governance guidance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) has recommended that listed companies disclose how economic, environmental and social sustainability risks are being identified and managed. This week the ASX Group's Corporate Governance Council published a ...

ESG integration into quantitative investment management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
There is a growing use of environmental and social factors as part of quantitative investment techniques in equity portfolios, with fund managers integrating ESG data to either screen out undesired stocks, or to create customised benchmarks that tilt ...