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Kidney: Australia should look to fund NBN with green bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... number of orders than there was issuance, with "over 90% of orders coming from institutional investors with some level of ESG criteria for investment," he wrote in a piece on the Climate Bonds Initiative website. The fund will be allocated to transport ...

FTSE adds three Australian companies to FTSE4Good indexes

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... Group and Tatts Group have been added to the FTSE4Good index series as part of FTSE's semi-annual review of the index and ESG ratings. FTSE added 21 companies and deleted seven countries from the index series. At the same time, FTSE said it applied supply ...

Sustainable investing needed as global economy transforms

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... believes that the world economies are in a period of transformation across a range of environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors, and institutional investors need a similar level of transformation to their investment value chain to integrate ...

Omega Global Investors hires investment research analyst

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... government bond allocation to a strategy managed by Omega that explicitly incorporates environmental, social and governance (ESG) analysis into the selection process, including a specific allocation of up to 15% invested in "green" or climate themed ...

UNPRI signatories name corporate ESG engagement issues

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... increased engagement with companies on their disclosure, management and performance of environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues. "The PRI Clearinghouse supports some of the world's leading asset owners and investment managers to be active owners ...

Solaris Investment Management augments distribution

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... and in the future." Solaris is a style-neutral Australian equities boutique fund manager. The firm, a UNPRI signatory, uses ESG considerations as one of its qualitative analysis factors. See Also: Superannuation funds aware of ESG macro-impact Solaris ...

PRI commitment spurs high-level action by Neuberger Berman

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... terms of the benefit of investment return and/or risk reduction from garnering insights into companies' quality by assessing ESG factors, and thirdly, there seemed a lot of interest in this from our investment teams answering these questions that clients ...

Superannuation funds aware of ESG macro-impact

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
Superannuation funds are realising that environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors should be integrated into macro-level investment decisions, and not merely as issues in individual companies, according to boutique fund manager Solaris Investment ...

Emerald Club and Premium Wealth Management sign alliance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... Whether the fund managers class themselves as a SRI manager or not, we want to make sure the funds are going to incorporate ESG into their investment process." Emerald Club will also start engaging with fund managers that meet quality criteria but are ...

La Trobe sustainability report discloses ESG action, targets

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
La Trobe University has disclosed achievements and omissions against environmental and social performance indicators in its 2011 sustainability report, and has set targets for 2015 and 2020 including integrating sustainability issues throughout education ...