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AXA IM brings ESG metrics to fixed income portfolio analysis

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... prospects. The top ESG under-weights for emerging markets were the Philippines, Columbia and Indonesia. For developed markets, Japan was the largest underweight largely due to governance issues, while countries with high quality long-term ratings such ...

LGS buys into IFC green bond issue

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... more liquid than credit," McCrum said. "The main issue isn't liquidity - it's that the issuance in places like Sweden and Japan is more retail driven. You can get more Yen exposure in green bonds, for example, but the issue is that the bonds go straight ...

US$178.5bn in sustainable investments in Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... report. GISA is a collaborative research report between the Global Sustainable Investment Alliance, AfricaSIF.org, and SIF-Japan, and presents results from market studies by regional sustainable investment forums from Europe, the United States, Canada ...

VicSuper integrates governance risk into bond portfolio

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... This includes holding bonds of very indebted countries of the Eurozone. This index is also heavily exposed to the US and Japan - they're about 30% respectively of the sovereign sector of the Global Aggregate Index. Both these countries are also highly ...

ASrIA: US$74bn in sustainable investment assets in Asia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... Association for Sustainable and Responsible Investment in Asia (ASrIA). Of that US$74bn, US$10bn of the assets are managed in Japan and the remaining US$64bn are assets under management in Asia ex-Japan. That US$76bn represents about 3% of the total ...

Omega: governance measurements reduce bond portfolio risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
... volatility, but also increasing returns, which is what we're after." Using the metric has led Omega to be underweight the US, Japan and Italy, and overweight Finland, Sweden, Canada, Germany, Denmark and the UK. Omega has begun presenting this research ...

FTSE adds three Australian companies to FTSE4Good indexes

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... Other companies included in the indexes as a result of the review include Bell Aliant of Canada, Astellas Pharmaceutical of Japan, Tate & Lyle in the UK, DIRECTV Group from the US, and Tiffany & Co of the USA. The seven deletions were Ageas of Belgium ...

Investor Profile: Omega Global Investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... as Norway and Sweden. There are also countries that we are underweight relative to the benchmark -countries like US and Japan. The reason that we're underweight Japan is the high reliance on nuclear energy and the bad debt situation. Japan is an interesting ...

LGS ESG sovereign debt strategy includes green bond tilt

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... underweights us European countries (with no exposure to PIGS: Portugal, Italy Greece and Spain) and heavily underweight the US and Japan," Hartnett said. "This mandate is primarily developed countries. It is underweight Asia because the research isn't ...

Climate change realities necessitate superannuation response

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... nothing, business as usual. "Australia's target represents a target which is broadly compliable with the likes of the US, Japan, Europe, China and Brazil - in other words, a large chunk of global emissions. On this basis, there's' little danger that ...