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Northern Trust's Bowers on ESG and funds management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
... security screening." Northern Trust Asset Management's approach to index management and ESG is gaining traction in Australia. Labour Union Co-operative Retirement Fund (LUCRF) recently announced it had appointed Northern Trust Asset Management's international ...

AMP Capital assesses progress, risks in Bangladesh factories

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
... their investors include ethical concerns, calculations of the financial risk/reward ratios as cost savings from cheaper labour can be offset by incremental business risks including impact on lead times, product quality and other concerns, and supply ...

Northern Trust ESG index range crosses US$1 billion mark

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
... Markets Custom Low Carbon Optimised Equity Index Fund and the Northern Trust World Custom ESG Equity Index Fund. Recently, Labour Union Co-operative Retirement Fund (LUCRF) has appointed Northern Trust Asset Management's international business to manage ...

AMP Capital lists fossil fuel exclusions for RIL funds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
... The RIL range selects managers that invest in companies that lead on ethical considerations, such as human rights, and labour standards, social consideration such as community involvement, environmental considerations and governance considerations. In ...

Westpac reports progress on sustainability targets

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
... companies that have contributed to illegal logging, forced evictions, inadequate compensation, food shortages and child labour," Oxfam said. Toohill said Westpac is reviewing the allegations in the report and noted that work of NGOs like Oxfam shows ...

LUCRF selects Northern Trust for ESG-screened mandate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
Labour Union Co-operative Retirement Fund (LUCRF) has appointed Northern Trust Asset Management's international business to manage an AU$220 million global equity index mandate that incorporates the fund's environmental, social and governance (ESG) ...

Managing ESG reputation can benefit corporate value

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
... core business failure, but rather ESG-related issues, such as failures of corporate ethics like bribery and corruption, labour and human rights violations and environmental disasters, he said. Aeby noted that when analysing the severity of ESG-related ...

Labour rights, NGO activism and governance cited as ESG trends

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
... Increased environmental and social activism by non-governmental organisations (NGOs), the rising importance of human and labour rights as a social issue for companies and a divergence between considerations of governance and social and environmental ...

Sedex Global partners with World Bank Institute on platform

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
... global online platform for "companies of all sizes to upload, share and track core information in areas of business ethics, labour standards, environmental footprints and governance practices." Sedex, which operates an online database of ethical and ...

SVA provides $800,000 financing to Indigenous company

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 APR 2014  |  NEWS
... size of $100-$200,000 per contract - this was a five million contract that was going to see an explosion in their need for labour. It will create a number of Indigenous job. Then there was the fact that they'd actually tendered for commercial jobs and ...