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MSCI issues guide for investor reporting to TCFD guidelines

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2019  |  NEWS
MSCI has issued a guide aimed at assisting investors who intend to report on their climate-related risk management processes according to the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) recommendations. Michael Salvatico, executive director ...

Aberdeen Standard Investments hires Danielle Welsh-Rose

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2019  |  NEWS
... ESG capabilities with clients and potential clients across the region. Welsh-Rose joins ASI from the Victorian Funds Management Corporation, where she was head of ESG. She reports to Euan Stirling, ASI's Edinburgh-based global head of stewardship and ...

Christian Super signs Operating Principles for Impact Management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2019  |  NEWS
Christian Super has become the first superannuation fund to sign the Operating Principles for Impact Management. Ross Piper, Christian Super CEO The principles were developed by the International Finance Corporation (IFC) to set a market standard for ...

AXA IM to launch fourth impact investing strategy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 SEP 2019  |  NEWS
... healthcare and financial inclusion, to those who were previously under-served." The business is seeking to grow assets under management via the new strategy, which will aim to provide a private markets solution catering for a wide investor base. This ...

Robeco on ESG integration, SDGs and impact investing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 SEP 2019  |  NEWS
... cycle is still not clear, she said. "We cannot say yet that it's a standalone factor," she said. "We use it in our management quality analysis. If it's a factor we really want to find it. We will remain doing research on it. We see it as an added value ...

MSCI Barra purchases data analytics firm Carbon Delta

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 SEP 2019  |  NEWS
... Delta to provide our clients with state-of-the-art climate risk analysis capabilities that can help shape investment management practices of the future." MSCI's Zurich office will act as MSCI's Climate Risk Center, with the goal of developing "strong ...

Retail investors would accept lower returns for ethical performance: KPMG

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 SEP 2019  |  NEWS
... pay will drive retail investors to sell - 38% rank this in their top five. "Our research indicates that boards and management have a green light from shareholders to pursue genuine efforts to become more transparent, more honest, more ethical, and more ...

Q&A with Pablo Berrutti on launch of Altiorem

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 AUG 2019  |  NEWS
... earlier this year after working as head of responsible investment, Asia Pacific at Colonial First State Global Asset Management for seven years. He is also the founder of Altiorem, an online library and resource centre to support the finance industry ...

Investment in climate-related opportunities grow: IGCC

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 AUG 2019  |  NEWS
... are actively looking for opportunities to support climate solutions and embed climate change into whole of portfolio management". The survey also found that 50-80% of investors surveyed are undertaking or are actively considering low carbon investment ...

Consultation paper seeks comment on disclosure of SDGs

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 AUG 2019  |  NEWS
... Russell Picot and Paul Druckman, Recommendations for SDG Disclosures: A consultation paper is grouped into four themes - management approach, strategy, governance and performance and targets. The aim is to encourage organisations to change their approach ...