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70% of suppliers see climate change as supply chain risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... Paulo S/A, Elopak, Endesa, Eni SpA, FIBRIA Celulose, Ford Motor Company, Goldman Sachs Group,, Groupe Steria, Imperial Tobacco Group, Jaguar Land Rover Ltd, Johnson & Johnson, Johnson Controls, JT International SA, Juniper Networks, KAO Corporation ...

Hermes Fund Managers launch quant ESG equity strategy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... companies which exhibit high ESG risk, or who derive significant revenue from armaments, logging, nuclear energy, gambling and tobacco. "This is another step towards LGS developing and implementing innovative strategies that manage or mitigate our ESG ...

Cruelty Free Super celebrates second birthday

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
... food, fur and animal skins, animals in sport, genetic modification, weapons manufacture, human rights violations, and tobacco production, among other issues. The company's portfolio does look to invest in companies involved in environmental protection ...

US college and university endowments lag on ESG investing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... forms of ESG investing tend to be around single-issue negative screening of listed equity portfolios around issues such as tobacco, "sin stocks", and targeted divestment from the Sudan. The report also found that while, generally, institutional investors ...

Investor Profile: Five Oceans Asset Management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... company, case by case basis, rather than a wholesale screening process. Having said that, we do exclude armaments and tobacco - those are the two broad exclusions we have. Outside of that, it's really on a case by case basis. We've incorporated ESG into ...

Five Oceans AM to run Skandia Global Equity Fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
... positioned relative to ESG issues. The company does not employ negative screening techniques broadly, except in excluding tobacco and armaments stocks, Youngman said. Five Oceans uses MSCI for ESG research and proxy voting advice, Youngman said. Five ...

Investor Profile: Local Government Super

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... increasing risk of them operating in a more hostile environment. In the very early days we're talking about gambling, tobacco and old growth logging. So we started off with specific industries that we just negatively screened out of our portfolio. Two ...

MSCI launches 25 new ESG indices

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
... to include companies with the highest MSCI ESG Research ratings, while excluding companies with investments including tobacco, nuclear power and GMOs. The new ESG indices include the MSCI World Socially Responsible Index as well as four regional and ...

MSCI launches ESG platform

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
... investors to identify all global publicly-traded companies involved in activities such as the production of alcohol or tobacco products, or those that violate religious screening mandates. It also allows investors to divest from companies that violate ...