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Sustainalytics hires Gary Hewitt

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
... meaningful governance insights into the investment process." Sustainalytics works with more than 250 asset owners, asset managers, and related organisations around potential material portfolio risk related to companies' ESG practices, the company sai ...

PRI: ESG factors material to sovereign bond creditworthiness

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... now applying ESG analysis to their sovereign bond portfolios and using it in their selection criteria to appoint asset managers. Given the sheer size of the sovereign bond market and compelling evidence that these factors are material to both creditworthiness ...

Asset owners, managers see climate change as material risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 AUG 2013  |  NEWS
... Climate Risk, and the Asia Investor Group on Climate Change. It is based on the responses from 37 asset owners and 47 asset managers, with collective assets totalling more than US$14 trillion. "The report shows that investors are continuing to look into ...

PRI to launch new reporting, assessment framework in October

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
... reference group put together on the basis of having diversity in terms of size of pension funds, asset owners, asset managers, different sizes and different countries. It hasn't been without its controversies and people have differing views about how ...

CFSGAM to create global responsible investment committee

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... asset manager also noted that the UK Financial Reporting Council revised their Stewardship Code in 2012, asking asset managers to disclose policies on managing conflicts of interest and for stock lending. "Engagement is central to our RI approach; as ...

Assessing fossil fuel value in an "unburnable carbon" world

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... we're only looking at part of the value being at risk." The Citi report further looked at what asset owners and asset managers and listed companies might do to mitigate the risk that could eventuate should the unburnable carbon concept bear fruition. ...

Colonial First State GAM to drive further ESG integration

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... Oulton said that there is increasing interest from asset owners and financial intermediaries in Europe to establish asset managers' competencies in responsible investment as part of the investment process, which partially impacted on the decisions to ...

Unconventional gas development poses risks to investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... aligned for complex for long term issues like unconventional gas extraction and so consequently asset owners and asset managers are likely to have different areas of focus that are best served by working together to insure all material issues are being ...

MSCI expands ESG research to fixed income

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
... investors' holdings across the world and there is a growing demand for tools that will enable asset owners and asset managers to integrate ESG across asset classes," said Remy Briand, managing director and global head of index and ESG research at MSCI ...

Sustainable investing needed as global economy transforms

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... management framework and governance, factor-based, thematic and asset allocation approaches and mandate design for asset managers. Predicated upon the framework is an acceptance that the global economy and thus financial markets and investors are at ...