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Konica Minolta on working towards ethical supply chain

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2018  |  NEWS
... investigating its operations and supply chain several years ago, and managing director Dr David Cooke is confident that their management of modern slavery risks is robust. "We first became aware of the issue of modern slavery and the potential involvement ...

ASX200 stocks with strong ESG performance outperform: Regnan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2018  |  NEWS
... at the material ESG to that stock, and engagement with that corporate to improve their disclosures or improve their management of those issue, that combination will provide a fund manager or asset owner additional alpha of 1.25% on average in terms of ...

New Forests acquires New Zealand assets, closes ANZFF2 fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2018  |  NEWS
... ownership of the Otago Land Company. New Forests is acquiring the assets from The Rohatyn Group (TRG), a specialised asset management firm with expertise in emerging markets and real assets, which first purchased the Wenita shareholding in 2005 in a ...

Mercer advises Business As Different approach to ESG issues

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2018  |  NEWS
... Australasia (RIAA)'s 2017 benchmark report, at 31 December 2016, responsible investment constituted $622 billion assets under management (AUM) up 9% from $569 billion in 2015, representing around half of all assets professionally managed in Australia ...

bfinance analyses ESG integration activities of Japanese active equity managers

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2018  |  NEWS
... "compelling evidence of successful impact as a result of such engagement, although relationships between asset managers and management teams are distinctly different in this region and some of the traditional resistance to shareholder influence persists," ...

CEFC commits $35 million to finance expansion of intelliHUB

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2018  |  NEWS
... acquiring Acumen, Origin Energy's $267 million smart meter business unit. The Acumen business included the existing management and servicing of an existing 170,000 meters and the combined business has future, long-term contracts with Origin Energy and ...

Institutional investors step up engagement as part of Climate Action 100+ initiative

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2018  |  NEWS
... in December 2017 at the One Planet Summit, and is backed by 289 investors with nearly $30 trillion in assets under management, mobilising across 29 countries. Signatories to Climate Action 100+ have expanded their focus list of companies beyond the initial ...

Stewart Investors backs research on packaging sustainability performance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2018  |  NEWS
... that packaging," Gait said. "The reason we commissioned it was two-fold - the first was to gain an insight into which management teams are thinking about those issues proactively, and that gives us a general window into an assessment of management teams. ...

Perpetual launches new Ethical SRI Credit Fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUN 2018  |  NEWS
... which has been running for almost a decade as well, and that strategy has attracted over $1 billion in assets under management. So you have two successful strategies with a long history and proven track record, launching something for fixed investors. ...

Macquarie Group issues £500 million facility to finance green projects

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUN 2018  |  NEWS
... facility. The green tranches will be used to support renewable energy projects initially, and energy efficiency, waste management, green buildings and clean transportation projects in the future, Macquarie said. The £500 million facility will adopt ...