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Companies increase ESG reporting, but "glaring gaps" remain: ACSI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 AUG 2019  |  NEWS
... metrics around both voluntary turnover and workforce engagement. ACSI also reported on gender diversity in executive management teams, finding that on average only 21% of executive/leadership roles in ASX200 are held by women. "We've been engaging with ...

QIC Shopping Centre Fund issues $300m certified green bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 AUG 2019  |  NEWS
... under the Low Carbon Buildings (Upgrade) Criteria. "We are continuing to progress opportunities to align QSCF's capital management strategy, that seeks to diversify its sources of funding, with QIC GRE's strategy of driving sustainability initiatives ...

Brightlight Investment Management allocates to DPN Casa Capace

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 AUG 2019  |  NEWS
Brightlight Investment Management has invested with specialist disability housing provider DPN Casa Capace to develop appropriate housing solutions for NDIS participants. Sam Khalil, DPN founder and group managing director DPN Casa Capace is part of ...

BlackRock launches unlisted iShares ESG Global Bond Index Fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 AUG 2019  |  NEWS
BlackRock Investment Management has launched a new unlisted iShares ESG Global Bond Index Fund. The fund is benchmarked to a customised Bloomberg Barclays MSCI Global Aggregate SRI Select ex-Fossil Fuels Index and is AUD hedged. It is "designed for ...

Regnan reports depth, impact of engagement in 2019

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 AUG 2019  |  NEWS
... point of the exercise is never just to say we've engaged with X number of companies, it's about the improvement of management that we think will impact on long term value at risk," Ewings said. "That naturally comes out of the process because the reason ...

HNW, UHNW "do not deeply consider ESG issues": Crestone wealth report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 AUG 2019  |  NEWS
... of the Crestone/CoreData 2019 State of Wealth Report. Rob Holder, asset allocation specialist with Crestone Wealth Management The 2019 State of Wealth Report, surveyed the two cohorts - HNW, which includes investors with $1 million in investable assets ...

Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking completes CFSGAM purchase

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 AUG 2019  |  NEWS
Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking has completed its $4 billion purchase of Colonial First State Global Asset Management (CFSGAM). CFSGAM, which began in 1988, has funds under management of AU$318.4 billion. Mitsubishi is a subsidiary of Mitsubishi UFJ ...

Man Group launches proprietary ESG analytics tool for portfolios

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUL 2019  |  NEWS
... engagement team too. You can see how many annual meetings we participated in, how we voted, where we voted with or against management, how that compared with the last one, two, or three annual meetings. You can also look at where companies have had controversies ...

Responsible investment a fundamental practice in NZ: RIAA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2019  |  NEWS
... Responsible investment is a "fundamental practice" in New Zealand, accounting for more than 70% of total assets under management (AUM), according to the latest Benchmark Report issued by the Responsible Investment Association of Australasia (RIAA). Simon ...

T. Rowe Price evaluates sustainability impacts of plastic consumption

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2019  |  NEWS
... Price. Maria Elena Drew, Director of Research, Responsible Investing at T. Rowe Price T. Rowe Price, a global investment management organisation with US$1.082 trillion in assets under management, has released a research note outlining the sustainability ...