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Northern Trust Asset Management launches GRESB-based real estate index

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JAN 2017  |  NEWS
... to benefit from the long-term returns associated with listed real estate companies, whilst incorporating sustainable investing principles." GRESB assesses the ESG performance of real estate portfolios and infrastructure assets, using more than 40 specific ...

Australian Ethical hires Michael Murray

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAY 2016  |  NEWS
... to working with an organisation that is 100% dedicated to ethical investment and using my experience in sustainable investing to deliver market-leading results for investors," Murray said. "Australian Ethical is the leader in the Australian ethical investing ...

ESG integration continues to spread across Asia: Robeco

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2016  |  NEWS
... specialist at Robeco Hong Kong. Ronnie Lim, senior investment specialist at Robeco Hong Kong. Robeco integrates sustainable investing into its process, which Lim defined as a set of investment decisions that consider ESG criteria to generate long term ...

Global sustainable investments rise to US$21.4tr: GSIA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2015  |  NEWS
... (RIAA) 2014 Benchmark Report. RIAA is a member of GSIA and contributed data to the report. The most common sustainable investing strategy globally is negative/exclusionary screening, which affects US$14.4 trillion in assets, according to the report. ...

ESG integration into quantitative investment management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
... theme adjusts, that is a nice way to approach it and it blends the long term philosophical merits of really sustainable investing." This comes up in portfolio construction discussions with asset owners, Salvatico of MSCI said. "That's something we talk ...

US$178.5bn in sustainable investments in Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... investments across asset classes, from listed equities and fixed income to hedge funds and microfinance. Managed sustainable investing portfolios in Australia has increased by 33% between 2010 and 2012, from US$13.2bn to US$17.5bn. The report also noted ...

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 ...