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Mercer gives top rating to 9% of ESG strategies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... 2008, using a four point scale in which 1 or 2 is considered "highly rated". The ratings reflect the extent to which portfolio managers integrate ESG factors into their process. According to Mercer, of the 5,175 strategies evaluated for ESG factors ...

Call for working group on shareholder resolution reform

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
Ethinvest, an investment advisory firm, is forming a working group to lobby for changes to address what the managing director calls a lack of clarity around the process of putting shareholder resolutions to an annual general meeting (AGM). Trevor Thomas ...

MSCI launches ESG ratings for sovereign bonds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
MSCI has launched a sovereign ratings tool designed to identify a country's exposure to and management of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) risk factors. MSCI ESG Sovereign Ratings provide an overall sustainability assessment of 90 countries ...

Institutional investors put climate change into risk budget

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... importance, because using the TIP framework, Mercer estimates that climate policy risk contributes 10% to an investment portfolio's total risk budget, compared with 1% for technology risk, and 12% for credit risk premium. Equity risk premium is still ...

ESG investment analysis - answering the "so-what" question

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... to demonstrate the tangible costs and benefits of integrating environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors into portfolio valuations will be a dominant theme for 2012, along with continued and expanded engagement with companies on issues across ...

Superannuation to heed call for greater disclosure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... investor, you can list the asset classes and the sub-asset classes. For example a fund might disclose that 20% of the portfolio is in Australian equities. Of that 20%, 10% of that is in high growth or value stocks and within that, 2% are in financial ...

Investors make 2012 climate change investment commitments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
The Investor Network on Climate Risk (INCR), a collaborative group of more than 100 institutional investors managing nearly US$10tr, has agreed to an agenda that will further integrate climate risks and opportunities into investment portfolios and processes ...

Westfield GHG emissions decrease, energy efficiency increase

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... efficiencies. Emissions are forecast to remain stable for the next five years based on current project pipeline and asset portfolio. In the United Kingdom, facilities managers and building services managers continue to reduce energy consumption by monitoring ...

Durban agreements to impact Australia's ETS

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
... Australia and in China. The company was founded in 2007. In addition to its operations in Australia, COzero also manages a portfolio of CDM projects and the associated CER credits. COzero has 30 projects in the CDM portfolio, generating 30m tonnes of ...

Carbon Farming Initiative welcomed, more work to come

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
... Australia and in China. The company was founded in 2007. In addition to its operations in Australia, COzero also manages a portfolio of CDM projects and the associated CER credits. COzero has 30 projects in the CDM portfolio, generating 30m tonnes of ...