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Ausbil outlines 2017 engagement activities in annual report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2018  |  NEWS
Ausbil Investment Management has engaged with companies on human rights in supply chains, climate change, improved environmental, social and governance (ESG) disclosure, and corporate governance. Mans Carlsson-Sweeny, Ausbil The fund has issued its ...

SSGA launches State Street Low Carbon ESG International Equities Index Trust

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2018  |  NEWS
... including climate change and gender equality that impact on long-term value creation. "I think that if you have a look at the asset stewardship, the exposure to carbon is not the only thing we look at. We look at a range of different ESG themes. You'd ...

ESG analysis important to emerging market credit: Insight Investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2018  |  NEWS
... credit analysis for emerging market debt, according to Insight Investment. Insight Investment, a $1.012 trillion global asset manager owned by BNY Mellon, notes that they integrate ESG analysis as part of their embedded evaluation. Bruce Murphy, director ...

Rising importance of sustainability in the commercial real estate industry

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2018  |  NEWS
... assessments are guided by what investors and the industry believe to be material issues in the sustainability performance of real asset investments and are aligned with international reporting frameworks such as the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI). ...

Examining the corporate governance implications of share buybacks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2018  |  NEWS
When companies announce share buybacks, are they returning value to shareholders, propping up earnings per share statistics, or responding to perverse incentives in executive remuneration? Since the US government passed significant corporate tax cuts ...

Cbus Super makes first direct infrastructure investment into renewable energy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2018  |  NEWS
... while this is a new type of investment for the fund, it wasn't so unfamiliar that we couldn't apply our experience in other asset areas into this." The investment is also attractive to Cbus because it fits in with its strategy to align itself with six ...

CEFC invests $150 million with IFM Australian Infrastructure Fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2018  |  NEWS
... solutions and converting to electric vehicles and are "also likely to involve using smart management systems which monitor asset performance and assist with reducing energy consumption and optimising logistics and supply chains," said CEFC infrastructure ...

Government finds no legislative barriers to implementing TCFD

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 APR 2018  |  NEWS
... return analysis," PRI said. "Additionally, the Financial Services Council (FSC) should continue working with Australian asset managers to strengthen stewardship expectations including TCFD implementation. Finally, the Australian Securities and Investments ...

BHP Billiton to maintain membership in US Chamber of Commerce

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 APR 2018  |  NEWS
... shareholder resolution on the same topic for the Rio Tinto AGM. More than a hundred individual shareholders and three global asset owners including Local Government Super (LGS) have co-filed a shareholder resolution calling on Rio Tinto to review and ...

Man Group analyses tobacco considerations in investment strategy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 APR 2018  |  NEWS
... tobacco divestment, investors often look at reputational risk of being invested in tobacco, Mitchell said. "It's about the asset owner getting more comfortable sizing up what the performance drag would be," he said. "If it costs them a couple basis points ...