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Responsible Investment assets top $622 billion: RIAA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUL 2017  |  NEWS
... consumers that their investments avoid some of the more harmful activities. Asset owners are realising that, and asset managers are receiving that message from asset owners. It is our view that we will continue to see more screening embedded in mainstream ...

Financial Services Council launches Principles of Internal Governance and Asset Stewardship Code

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUL 2017  |  NEWS
... of the companies in which they invest, Loane said. The FSC Stewardship Code defines asset stewardship and says "asset Managers should exercise effective asset stewardship on behalf of their clients." This includes disclosing approaches to "considering ...

Three quarters of Aussie investors use ESG in investment strategies: BNP Paribas

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 MAY 2017  |  NEWS
... Services' head of Australia and New Zealand. The global custodian surveyed more than 460 institutional investors and asset managers globally, with 44 institutional investors from Australia, with around $542 billion in assets under management, participating ...

Neuberger Berman hires new head of environmental, social and governance investing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 MAY 2017  |  NEWS
... Global). Prior to joining FCLT Global, worked as associate partner at McKinsey & Company, advising pension plans, asset managers and other finance institutions on issues including investment strategy, organisational structure and ESG integration. Bailey ...

Majority of largest asset owners recognise risk of climate change: AODP

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 APR 2017  |  NEWS
... Owners Disclosure Project (AODP) Global Climate Index 2017. The Global Climate Index 2017 has rated asset owners and asset managers on three capabilities that align with the Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosure (TCFD): governance and strategy ...

Majority of investors believe ESG-focused investment improve returns: SSgA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 APR 2017  |  NEWS
... it was difficult to benchmark performance against peers, while 56% said the accurate assessment of external ESG asset managers was a key issue. "Data is improving," Anderson said. "But it is important understand how good you are and how good the strategy ...

Majority of APAC investors have an ESG investment framework: State Street

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 APR 2017  |  NEWS
... analysts across the organisation. We did 25 interviews and handpicked the organisations, brought asset owners and asset managers that are in the vanguard on this issue. The one thing they mentioned is that instead of having ESG as an isolated group ...

Video: Aligning Your Investments with the Sustainable Development Goals

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAR 2017  |  NEWS
... implications of the SDGSs, the ways in which the SDGs can be applied to investment strategies, how investors and asset managers can calculate the impacts of their investments and other issues. Aligning Your Investments with the Sustainable Development ...

Queensland Treasury Corporation issues $750m green bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAR 2017  |  NEWS
... Rolling Stock, various cycleways, and Sunshine Coast Solar Farm. The majority of the bond - 77% - was taken up by asset managers, with 13.2% uptake by insurers/pension funds, 4.2% by trading books, 3.3% by banks, 2% by official institutions and 0.2% ...

ACSI appoints two new members to board of directors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAR 2017  |  NEWS
... investors in the capital markets. ACSI has 29 Australian members, including profit-to-member superannuation funds and asset managers who manage money for the profit-to-members sector. They collectively manage over $450 billion in assets on behalf of ...

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Santos receives takeover offer from Abu Dhabi-led consortium

ANDREW MCKEAN
Santos has received a non-binding $8.89 per share cash offer from the XRG Consortium, led by XRG P.J.S.C., a subsidiary of Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ANDOC), alongside Abu Dhabi's sovereign wealth fund ADQ and US private equity firm Carlyle.

What do the best-functioning boards look like?

KARREN VERGARA
The best-functioning boards are future thinkers, understand their ESG responsibilities and are able to show their "battle scars," according to two governance experts.

Funding lifts for climate, health, people startups

KARREN VERGARA
While funding for impact startups has broadly declined, those operating in climate, health and people has seen funding levels improve compared to three years ago, according to the Impact Startups Benchmark Report 2025.

Mind the gap: Investors' role in balancing fairness and competitiveness in executive pay

ALEXANDRE PROST
Investors have a significant role to play in helping to move the dial on executive remuneration, aiming to increase fairness and reduce inequality.

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