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ESG data can augment low-volatility quant strategies: Northern Trust

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 JAN 2020  |  NEWS
... alpha seeking strategies, according to Northern Trust Asset Management. Michael Hunstad, head of quantitative research global equity management, Northern Trust Northern Trust Asset Management has designed the Quality Low Volatility strategy that combines ...

BlackRock joins Climate Action 100+ investor initiative

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 JAN 2020  |  NEWS
BlackRock has joined Climate Action 100+, the global investor initiative that engages with the world's largest corporate greenhouse gas emitters on action on climate change. Emma Herd, chief executive officer of the Investor Group on Climate Change ...

IFC expands EDGE program to include BNP Paribas ClimateSeed program

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 JAN 2020  |  NEWS
... achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. IFC is a sister organisation to the World bank and is a global development institution. In the 2019 fiscal year, it "delivered more than $19 billion in long-term financing for developing ...

Climate-related policies "inevitable", but likely to be disorderly: IPR

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2019  |  NEWS
... period of time between 2023-2025 has been identified because of the Paris Agreement 'ratchet mechanism'. It starts with the Global Stocktake 2023 and leads to the third round of climate pledges in 2025, and it increases the likelihood that policy announcements ...

Integrating ESG essential to infrastructure portfolio: First Sentier Investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2019  |  NEWS
... EUR2.0 billion in assets under management, the European Diversified Infrastructure Fund II, with EUR 2.6 billion in AUM, the Global Diversified Infrastructure Fund, with US$2.0 billion in AUM, and the Wholesale Infrastructure Income Fund, with asset ...

Superannuation funds that invest responsibly outperform: RIAA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2019  |  NEWS
MySuper options in superannuation funds that employ responsible investment strategies across portfolios have financially outperformed non-responsible investment peers over one, three and five-year time frames, according to new research from the Responsible ...

Investing in insurance linked securities, integrating climate risk: Amundi

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2019  |  NEWS
... modelling into its ILS investment process. "No doubt, we acknowledge that there is change in terms of overall climate or global warming," Liu said. "The first thing to note is that the insurance and reinsurance industry is a for-profit industry. We're ...

GRI launches tax reporting standard for comprehensive disclosure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2019  |  NEWS
... promote economic development," said Daniel Bertossa, assistant general secretary of Public Services International, the global trade union federation. "We cannot tackle pressing global issues like poverty reduction, climate change and implementation of ...

QBE, Suncorp among global insurers exiting coal: Unfriend Coal

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 3 DEC 2019  |  NEWS
Australian insurers QBE and Suncorp are among global insurers and reinsurers withdrawing cover for new coal projects, according to the third annual Unfriend Coal scorecard. Seventeen of the world's biggest insurer have announced they are withdrawing ...

Analysis: too big to be sustainable?

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 NOV 2019  |  NEWS
... to settle proceedings relating to serious breaches of AML/CTF laws. Indeed, Australian banks aren't even unique at a global level - a 2017 report by Vigeo Eiris examined the responsible and ethical culture in banking and finance around the world. ...