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Cbus becomes Australian Asset Owner Stewardship Code signatory

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 OCT 2018  |  NEWS
... monitoring asset managers and financial system advocacy. "There is a strong public demand for information about how asset owners manage the money entrusted to them," said Louise Davidson, ACSI CEO. "Signatories to the code are shining a light on their ...

CAER urges investors to consider ESG risks of cannabis companies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2018  |  NEWS
... tobacco stocks, whereby they'll be selling branded product to a mass market, within the legal framework." As a result, asset owners should consider the implications now, given that asset owners could have mandates for growth stock portfolios or emerging ...

Willis Towers Watson, MSCI launch Adaptive Capped ESG Universal Index

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2018  |  NEWS
... also investing in companies with strong and improving ESG factors. "We've seen a lot of interest from clients and asset owners in managing ESG risk and particularly in developing an approach to a range of ESG issues, rather than focusing on just one ...

Q&A: Yolanda Beattie, Mercer, talks Future IM/Pact initiative

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2018  |  NEWS
... face. You can't syringe it into its mouth, but we're trying to make it easy as possible. RA: If fund managers or asset owners are interested in pursuing the programme, how can they find you? YB: They can go to Future-Impact.com.au, and all my contacts ...

bfinance analyses ESG integration activities of Japanese active equity managers

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2018  |  NEWS
... paving the way locally as being an active asset owner, but there hasn't been a uniform demand for ESG integration by asset owners, Barral said. "Japanese investors, local investors, haven't really asked for a particular ESG requirement," Barral said. ...

Investors, credit ratings agencies grapple with ESG impacts on ratings: PRI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUN 2018  |  NEWS
... improving. Gaps exist at different levels of the investment chain - not only between investors and CRAs but between asset owners and asset managers and, ultimately, bond issuers," PRI added. "As investors and regulators increasingly focus on the role ...

ACSI launches Stewardship Code for Australian asset owners

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAY 2018  |  NEWS
Australia joins countries around the world with the launch of a stewardship code for Australian asset owners, aimed at increasing the transparency and accountability of stewardship activities in Australia. Louise Davidson, ACSI CEO The Australian Council ...

Climate-related shareholder resolutions put to Rio Tinto, QBE AGMs

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2018  |  NEWS
... passage of resolutions such as the ones put to Rio Tinto and QBE, but rather using the available tools to hand as asset owners to further the outcome of better ESG-related reporting. "We really want to see, with both companies, that they approach climate ...

BHP Billiton to maintain membership in US Chamber of Commerce

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 APR 2018  |  NEWS
... resolution on the same topic for the Rio Tinto AGM. More than a hundred individual shareholders and three global asset owners including Local Government Super (LGS) have co-filed a shareholder resolution calling on Rio Tinto to review and fully disclose ...

Protecting impact from Greenwash - Duncan Paterson

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 APR 2018  |  NEWS
... discipline has emerged as a powerful tool for investors seeking to engender positive social and environmental change. As asset owners start reviewing impact investments for portfolio inclusion, service providers are rightly moving to fill a gap in the ...