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Investors conducting climate change risk assessments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... Climate Change Annual Report on Actions and Progress 2011 surveys the investment practices of 42 asset owners and 51 asset managers. It was commissioned by the Australia/New Zealand Investor Group on Climate Change ( IGCC), the Institutional Investors ...

IIGCC urges greater energy efficiency for EU property sector

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... limited awareness among service providers including property managers, surveyors, and letting agents. "Fund and asset managers should be encouraged to report energy use and the regulatory framework should support the development of training amongst practitioners ...

FTSE launch carbon risk indices for Australia, Europe and Japan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... Strategy All-Share Index and the FTSE CDP Carbon Strategy 350 Index. The indices are aimed at pension funds and asset managers who are seeking to incorporate carbon risks into investment strategy and were developed in conjunction with the Carbon Disclosure ...

CDP writes companies asking for carbon management and cuts

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... emissions. As part of the CDP's Carbon Action initiative, the letters were sent on behalf of 92 pension funds, asset managers, insurers and banks, including 12 Australian institutions. The Carbon Action initiative works in parallel to CDP's annual request ...

IGCC working group engages on green finance design, function

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... investment team to handle the due diligence and monitoring that brings, or by outsourcing management to third party asset managers. "There are a couple of different ways [the CEFC] can act, depending on what sort of outcomes they're looking at," Major ...

Colonial First State Global Asset Management reports on responsible investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
... UNPRI as the basis for its self-reporting because it is a commonly accepted set of principles to work with, "For asset managers, there really isn't anything else," McCluskey said. "If we were selling socially responsible or ethical products, we could ...

Benchmarking superannuation funds' sustainability performance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
... companies. But even as the pressure rises on companies to disclose how they manage ESG risks, reporting of how asset managers and asset owners like superannuation funds use this information to achieve stated sustainability goals is voluntary and non-standard ...

MSCI launches 25 new ESG indices

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
... index and ESG research at MSCI. "They broaden and deepen our ESG index line-up, enabling both asset owners and asset managers to implement a growing range of ESG strategies." The MSCI ESG Indices were launched in September 2010, following the integration ...

MSCI launches ESG platform

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
MSCI has launched MSCI ESG Manager, a platform to assist asset managers and owners with managing research, analysis and compliance tasks across a range of ESG factors. MSCI is also introducing MSCI ESG Impact Monitor, a product that allows investors ...

Climate change issues integrated into investment decisions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
... Climate Change Annual Report on Actions and Progress 2010 surveys the investment practices of 44 asset owners and 46 asset managers. It was commissioned by the Australia/New Zealand Investor Group on Climate Change ( IGCC), the Institutional Investors ...