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Sustainable practices can yield sustainable profits: Calvert

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 OCT 2019  |  NEWS
... differences to peers are associated with higher rates of return on capital, according to a paper from Calvert Research and Management. Anne B. Matusewicz, CAIA, responsible investment strategy at Calvert Research and Management The report, When sustainable ...

Put climate resilience at the core of business strategy: WBCSD

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 OCT 2019  |  NEWS
... transformation, launched to coincide with the UN Climate Action Statement. The report's theme is that "enterprise risk management and transformation to resilient business models are key elements in building business climate resilience." The themes and ...

Ethical Investment Week to focus on "The Sustainability Revolution"

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 OCT 2019  |  NEWS
... come through and now the second wave is coming through." Pinnell noted that the Co-Operative's collective assets under management have continued to grow and now exceed $2 billion in assets under management, reflecting consumer demand for investments ...

Climate change impacts "top of mind" for investors: Nuveen Real Estate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2019  |  NEWS
... investment manager of TIAA, is one of the largest investment managers in the world with AUD $180 billion of assets under management globally. Abigail Dean, head of sustainability at Nuveen, was recently in Australia to meet with the firm's investors. ...

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 ...