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Vision Super publishes Corporate Responsibility report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 JAN 2018  |  NEWS
... Super has also focused on the carbon intensity of its equities portfolio. The fund benchmarked its portfolio against the MSCI Global Carbon Benchmark, and has asked its external managers to manage their holdings towards those benchmarks. Vision Super ...

UCA Funds Management hires Mathew Browning as new CEO

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 DEC 2017  |  NEWS
... manager focused on global healthcare equities targeting both wholesale and retail investors. The fund doubled the return of the MSCI World Health Care Index over four years. "It is a great privilege to have been selected to lead UCA Funds Management ...

ESG integration comes into its own in fixed income portfolios: RIAA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  SUNDAY, 19 NOV 2017  |  NEWS
... portfolios at RIAA 2017 Conference (L-R: Loren Sageser, Product Strategist - ESG, PIMCO; Mervyn Tang, Vice President ESG Research, MSCI; Yen Wong, Head of Credit Research, Altius Asset Management; Moderator: Laurence Davison, Managing Editor, Kanga News. ...

Russell Investments launches Low Carbon Global Shares Fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 OCT 2017  |  NEWS
... the Low Carbon Global Shares Fund, designed to reduce the exposure to carbon emissions and carbon reserves by 50% of the MSCI ACWI benchmark. James Harwood, portfolio manager, Russell Investments The fund uses Russell Investment's proprietary decarbonisation ...

SSGA Global Index Plus Trust to exclude tobacco, controversial weapons

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 SEP 2017  |  NEWS
... invests in global companies and seeks an investment return that modestly exceeds, before expenses, the performance of the MSCI World ex-Australia Index over the long term. "The impetus in Australia has certainly come from what we've seen in our institutional ...

Colonial First State Global Asset Management publish stewardship report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUL 2017  |  NEWS
... process has been a real enhancement in the way that we consider these complex issues." Also in 2016, CFSGAM has appointed MSCI to provide carbon emissions and fossil fuel data, which CFSGAM will use both internally and for client reporting purposes. ...

Parametric explores integration of responsible investing in peer-constrained world

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUL 2017  |  NEWS
... outcomes. "For example, consider the impact of a tobacco and controversial weapons screen on a superannuation fund with a MSCI world ex-Australia equity portfolio," the paper said. "In this portfolio over the past five years, this screen had a very small ...

VicSuper launches updated Socially Conscious investment option

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 JUN 2017  |  NEWS
... Socially Conscious investment option invests in companies sourced from a bespoke index designed for VicSuper that combines the MSCI Global Fossil Fuels Exclusion Index, the MSCI Global Socially Responsible Index and an additional fossil fuel direct activity ...

Sustainable Development Goals present "enormous opportunity" for business

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 13 APR 2017  |  NEWS
... Australia. Alice Cope, executive manager, Global Compact Network Australia Cope recently spoke during a webinar organised by MSCI to Australia's approach regarding the SDGs. MSCI recently released a report showing that Australian listed companies in ...

Video: Aligning Your Investments with the Sustainable Development Goals

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAR 2017  |  NEWS
... Sustainability Report is pleased to present this video of the highlights from a panel discussion in Sydney, sponsored by MSCI and Blackrock, that considered the implications of the SDGSs, the ways in which the SDGs can be applied to investment strategies ...