Search Results

Showing 211 - 220 of 479 results for "Index"

Do founder-led listed companies outperform on E, S and G metrics?

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... research companies with controlling shareholders and companies that are family-owned, and examined companies on the MSCI ACWI index that has either a significant shareholder with a greater than 50% share of the company and companies that are founder ...

Australian business environment amongst world's most resilient: FM Global

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... Global Australia FM Global provides an annual assessment of nearly 130 countries through the annual FM Global Resilience Index. The index assesses countries' business resilience and provides information about countries' economic, risk quality and supply ...

Investors to increase climate-linked passive investments: DWS Group

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... and how far are companies taking actions which comply with national commitments under the Paris Agreement. Cap-weighted index funds as their favourite passive vehicle of choice, cited by 70% of respondents, and 89% treat equities as their favourite underlying ...

ESG superannuation funds outperform in torrid year: Rainmaker

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... ESG options, according to research from Rainmaker Information. While the overall Rainmaker MySuper investment performance index ended 2019-2020 with an annual average return of -0.9%, the Rainmaker ESG Diversified Index returned 0.3% over the financial ...

BNP Paribas issues $140m in equity-linked green bonds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
BNP Paribas has issued $140 million in equity-linked green bonds based on a forward-looking climate index of ASX-listed companies. Mike Watanabe, managing director, head of equity derivatives, Australia The Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC), First ...

Identifying exposures to modern slavery a key concern: Informed 365

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... are," Bernhardt said. Responding to these concerns, Informed 365 has developed and launched the Informed 365 Slavery Risk Index, which gives clients a high level risk rating of suppliers based on the country of operation and the industry in which they ...

ASX-listed mining, gas and oil companies lack tax transparency: PWYP

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... risk appetite," she explained. Ethical Partners Funds Management uses the Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index as a key data source in investment decisions, and does not invest in companies that reside in the bottom third of the index. ...

State Street Global Advisors to list new ESG ETF on ASX

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... Meaghan Victor, head of SPDR ETF Asia Pacific distribution The SPDR S&P/ASX 200 ESG Fund (E200) tracks the S&P/ASX 200 ESG Index, a "broad-based, market-cap-weighted index designed to measure the performance of securities meeting sustainability criteria ...

BetaShares launches currency-hedged version of ethical ETF

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... ETF - Currency Hedged (ASX: HQLT). HNDQ enables investors to get exposure to the currency-hedged version of the Nasdaq-100 Index. NDQ, the unhedged version of the strategy, has over $950 million in assets. "The unhedged versions of these two new ETFs ...

ESG ETP assets under management triple in last three years: Research

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... products at June 2017 to its current figure of 33%." Rainmaker classifies ESG ETPs as smart beta strategies, with active and index strategies being the other categories. Of the nine ESG ETP products, eight are ETFs, and the InvestSMART product is an ...