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GRESB launches real estate debt survey

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2015  |  NEWS
... organisation that has more than 150 members. GRESB benchmark results are used by pension funds and investment managers to assess the risk/return profile of real estate investments by analysing their ESG management. See Also: Queensland Investment Corporation ...

Video: Fossil Fuel Divestment Exposure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2015  |  NEWS
... sophisticated decision-making. As a result of those factors, institutional investors have a duty to evaluate the potential risk to investments brought by fossil fuels and carbon emissions intensity, and to make decisions relative to their portfolio ...

BNY Mellon offers ESG data to depositary receipt clients

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2015  |  NEWS
... already posted on the asset servicing website regarding ESG, but nothing formal in terms of asset servicing. When you look at risk analysis, they have some very interesting evolutions in terms of what they're doing for client solutions there as well. ...

ASX200 ESG reporting improves, but laggards persist: ACSI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2015  |  NEWS
... companies, including those who in the last four years or longer - haven't reported on [environmental, social and governance] ESG risk. That's disappointing, but I wouldn't want to underplay the fact that we we see some positive signs in how many companies ...

Local Government Super top AODP index

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2015  |  NEWS
... again regained the top position on the global Asset Owners Disclosure Project (AODP) index for their work in managing climate risk, but 85% of the 500 largest asset owners globally are still not adequately disclosing or managing their risk. LGS regained ...

Investor groups publish climate change investment guide

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2015  |  NEWS
... project of IGCC, the European Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC), Ceres' Investor Network on Climate Risk (INCR) in North America, and ASrIA's Asia Investor Group on Climate Change (AIGCC). The framework lines out four areas for ...

Companies consider implications of new ASX principles

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2015  |  NEWS
... Corporate Governance Council's Corporate Governance Principles and Recommendations, the application of two parts, relating to risk management and the disclosure of environmental, social and economic sustainability risks and the board skills matrix, are ...

AODP, ClientEarth to challenge funds on climate change

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2015  |  NEWS
... ASX, and they have extra exposure to carbon intensity, they need to mitigate more strongly. The implications for climate risk in Australia are more important than elsewhere in the world." Any legal challenges to pension fund governance will be instigated ...

Investors integrating ESG in quant portfolios: Northern Trust

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2015  |  NEWS
... high carbon intensive companies in key sectors," Sarr said. "Some of the indices that are offered address the problem of risk at the company level, but don't address the sector risk that you have. What you're left with is a solution that addresses the ...

BP shareholders pass Aiming for A climate risk resolution

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2015  |  NEWS
BP shareholders overwhelmingly backed a resolution that has directed the company to provide more information on their strategic management of carbon risks. Resolution 25 was proposed by the Aiming for A coalition, a group of institutional investors ...