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AXA IM launches ESG SmartBeta fund in Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... SmartBeta fund in Australia, which will be available to the retail market via the Asgard platform. Kathryn McDonald, director of investment strategy, AXA Rosenberg The AXA IM All Country World Index (ACWI) SmartBeta Equity Fund has been seeded with AU$55 ...

SMF stepping up advocacy for environmental upgrade finance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... on their respective markets, and recently, PACE Now held a discussion between Bocskay and David Gabrielson, Executive Director of PACENow. "If you look at just commercial PACE, the quantum of what is invested in Australia is not that different than in ...

MSCI assesses future carbon exposure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... exposures without drastically increasing tracking error or reducing investment returns, according to MSCI. executive director, global head of ESG research, MSCI MSCI has recently launched its ESG CarbonMetrics, a suite of carbon and fossil fuel metrics ...

AMP Capital reviews corporate governance activities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... that decisions on re-electing non-independent directors will reflect discussions with the companies, the value of the director's contribution, and the degree to which AMP Capital beleives the board acts in the interests of its shareholders. AMP Capital ...

DJSI 2014 review names ASX companies industry leaders

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... understanding of sustainability has grown dramatically over the past decade and a half," said David Blitzer, managing director and chairman of the S&P Dow Jones Index Committee. "During that time the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices have been established ...

Local property companies continue GRESB outperformance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... the forefront of providing increasingly granular, high-quality data to the industry," said Nils Kok, GRESB's executive director. Institutional investors use GRESB's data to assess investments in commercial real estate. "We believe that there is sufficient ...

NY's EIC on residential, commercial property energy upgrades

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... community as a pilot in late 2010 and has spread to 14 municipalities and 250,000 people since then, said Thomas Bregman, director of EIC member services and director of Energize NY Residential. "In that time we have deployed community based marketing ...

UCA Funds Management appoint independent directors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... directorships, currently holding directorships with Lionport Asia Fund and WAM Capital Limited. Bell is a banking and finance director with more than 22 years' experience in senior roles in law firms, financial services and corporate treasury operations ...

Carbon co-benefits valued as additional $664 per tonne

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... co-benefits." The voluntary carbon market is "a smart opportunity" for business, noted Sophy Greenhalgh, ICROA programme director. "This research demonstrates offset programmes deliver numerous business objectives, such as employee engagement and resource ...

MSCI launches ESG CarbonMetrics

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... robust quantitative data on companies' fossil fuel reserves holdings and carbon emissions," said Remy Briand, managing director and head of ESG research at MSCI. "We are excited to provide with MSCI ESG CarbonMetrics a comprehensive tool for divestment ...