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

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... noted, while Japan's US$10bn was 0.2% out of a total of US$4.4tr in assets under management in that country. "Sustainable investing in Asia has become a significant force over the last five years, as global investors deploy a greater percentage of their ...

Sustainable investing needed as global economy transforms

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... framework to assist investors in integrating sustainability into their processes and outlined it in a paper, Sustainable investing - we need a bigger boat. The framework covers organisational design for asset owners through the investment decision making ...

US college and university endowments lag on ESG investing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... Institute. US college and university endowments manage a combined US$400bn in assets, and had historically been "sustainable investing pioneers", but have lagged in recent years in three areas of examination - "1) the incorporation of ESG criteria into ...

Superannuation to heed call for greater disclosure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... reporting, it's very different," Vamos said. "The different levels of ethical investing and sustainability and sustainable investing and the different levels of ethical screens, you've got what I call the light green to the deep green investors. When ...

Investors integrating ESG into decisions have "an edge"

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... wheel." See Also: Imbalances, sustainability and their impact on investing The impact of universal owners on sustainable investing Integrating ESG an evolution for institutional investors

James Thier retires from Australian Ethical

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
... Australian Ethical's superannuation product, he said. Reflecting on how the funds management industry and sustainable investing has evolved over the years since Australian Ethical's founding, Thier noted that the idea of sustainability investing has ...

Paper guides investors to ESG investment integration

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
... Peter Drucker highlighted: 'what gets measured, gets managed'." See Also: The impact of universal owners on sustainable investing Integrating ESG to enhance quantitative-style investment analysis

The impact of universal owners on sustainable investing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
... those factors with the intent of improving long-term performance in a "logical but ambitious extension of sustainable investing," according to a discussion paper by consultants Towers Watson. Towers Watson discusses the clout of the so-called Universal ...

Investor Profile: Australian Ethical Investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
... corporate performance on climate change issues. Thier talks to The Sustainability Report about ethical and sustainable investing, Australian Ethical's goals and how ESG can be used as a tool to achieve positive investment return and positive corporate ...