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Northern Trust launches emerging markets ESG index, fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... Global Compact, and the other screens remove manufacturers of controversial weapons such as cluster bombs and landmines and tobacco manufacturers. After those screens, constituent companies that lack sufficient independence across ownership, board representation ...

Dalton Nicol Reid: using ESG to find sustainable earnings

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... investment universe, across ESG characteristics. We bias towards the companies that score well and screen out gambling, tobacco, exposure to armaments and pornography." Dalton Nicol Reid also manages an Australian equities income portfolio, which is ...

Future Fund excludes tobacco producers from portfolio

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
The Future Fund will exclude tobacco companies from its investment portfolio, the Board of Guardians has announced. The fund owns stock in 14 companies in involved in tobacco production, with a combined worth of approximately AU$222 million at the end ...

US$178.5bn in sustainable investments in Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... take in more than 10% of their revenue from areas including "armaments, gambling, nuclear/uranium, old growth logging, tobacco, poor mining practices, questionable workplace practices, and questionable ESG practices," the report said. "The international ...

70% of suppliers see climate change as supply chain risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... Paulo S/A, Elopak, Endesa, Eni SpA, FIBRIA Celulose, Ford Motor Company, Goldman Sachs Group,, Groupe Steria, Imperial Tobacco Group, Jaguar Land Rover Ltd, Johnson & Johnson, Johnson Controls, JT International SA, Juniper Networks, KAO Corporation ...

Hermes Fund Managers launch quant ESG equity strategy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... companies which exhibit high ESG risk, or who derive significant revenue from armaments, logging, nuclear energy, gambling and tobacco. "This is another step towards LGS developing and implementing innovative strategies that manage or mitigate our ESG ...

Cruelty Free Super celebrates second birthday

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
... food, fur and animal skins, animals in sport, genetic modification, weapons manufacture, human rights violations, and tobacco production, among other issues. The company's portfolio does look to invest in companies involved in environmental protection ...

US college and university endowments lag on ESG investing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... forms of ESG investing tend to be around single-issue negative screening of listed equity portfolios around issues such as tobacco, "sin stocks", and targeted divestment from the Sudan. The report also found that while, generally, institutional investors ...

Investor Profile: Five Oceans Asset Management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... company, case by case basis, rather than a wholesale screening process. Having said that, we do exclude armaments and tobacco - those are the two broad exclusions we have. Outside of that, it's really on a case by case basis. We've incorporated ESG into ...

Five Oceans AM to run Skandia Global Equity Fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
... positioned relative to ESG issues. The company does not employ negative screening techniques broadly, except in excluding tobacco and armaments stocks, Youngman said. Five Oceans uses MSCI for ESG research and proxy voting advice, Youngman said. Five ...