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Businesses addressing climate change as strategic risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
Businesses around the world are addressing climate change as a strategic long-term risk despite the lack of political consensus. Andrew Hoffman, professsor of sustainable enterprise, University of Michigan Impacted by extreme weather events and guided ...

RobecoSAM to use CDP questions in DJSI questionnaire

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... and for more comparable data," said Paul Simpson, CDP CEO in a statement. " It will now be easier to incorporate climate risk, opportunity and governance into evaluations of corporate progress on sustainability. CDP and RobecoSAM are the de facto raters ...

Q&A with Michael Walsh, UCA Funds Management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... asset allocation decisions.You can get international exposure through Australian companies that manage their own currency risk and they still pay fully paid dividends that we can gross up for the charities. So in a sense we are a specialist in managing ...

GRESB hires head of sustainability

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... managers and tenants on a wide range of sustainability-related subjects,, including energy management and sustainability risk management. She has worked extensively on tenant engagement issues including the implementation of green leases. "Elsbeth has ...

Mercer: use responsible investment to reduce return leakage

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... bring unintended consequences. Litigation - it is not inconceivable to imagine member-driven lawsuits on managing climate risk. The third avenue - which is the basis for most of the proposals that Divyesh Hindocha and I made - is changing industry practice ...

Dalton Nicol Reid: using ESG to find sustainable earnings

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... part of determining companies with sustainable earnings as well as avoiding investments in companies that could present a risk to clients. "We focus on trying to buy quality businesses," Nicol said. "Part of that is ensuring that we have reviewed the ...

Australian Ethical appoints Kate Greenhill to board

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... and regulatory developments, capital raisings, accounting for complex transactions, due diligence, valuations, compliance, risk management, organisational structure and the operation of controls, Australian Ethical said. Greenhill is also a director ...

MSCI: using ESG ratings can improve portfolio returns

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... equities' performance from Feb 2007 to December 2012, and demonstrated that it is possible to build portfolios with "equivalent risk, performance, industry, country or style characteristics as conventional benchmarks, while also raising ESG portfolio ...

AXA IM brings ESG metrics to fixed income portfolio analysis

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... fashions - as a negative screen to eliminate countries with significant ESG risks, which can potentially pose a reputational risk to investors, and as an overlay, to tilt a portfolio to overweigh strong ESG performance and underweigh poor ESG performance. ...

ACCSR conference tackles practice of responsible leadership

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
It is the goal of sustainability practitioners to establish corporate social responsibility (CSR) to provide the company with processes and responsibilities to respond resiliently to both everyday interactions and to the extraordinary situations that ...