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Legg Mason launches QS Investors Global Responsible Investment Fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2019  |  NEWS
Legg Mason has launched the Legg Mason QS Investors Global Responsible Investment Fund, a global equity fund that integrates environmental, social and governance (ESG) analysis and ethical screens. The fund uses the investment expertise of wholly owned ...

Constructing an impact portfolio as stand-alone strategy: Nuveen

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAR 2019  |  NEWS
Impact investing is a stand-alone strategy to develop portfolio construction towards achieving particular environmental and social outcomes and outputs, according to Nuveen Private Markets. Rekha Unnithan, the lead impact portfolio manager for Nuveen ...

Corporate culture a factor in stock selection: WCM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2019  |  NEWS
... get a chance to, or if it's a retailer, we can go and visit and look at how employees appear. There's some stuff that's quant, like turnover, and stuff that's qualitative, like engagement scores and anecdotal evidence that we pick." WCM also assesses ...

Big data, ESG ratings can combine to unlock investment return: TruValue

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 DEC 2018  |  NEWS
Investors can unlock "significant positive alpha" by combining big data mining techniques and traditional ESG ratings, according to TruValue Labs. TruValue Labs, a San Francisco based research firm that uses artificial intelligence to analyze and interpret ...

Companies engage with material human rights issues: BCSD Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2018  |  NEWS
Nearly two thirds of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) member organisations consider human rights material, but only 23% of companies mention a specific human rights strategy in their sustainability reports. Andrew Petersen ...

CAER urges investors to consider ESG risks of cannabis companies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2018  |  NEWS
With Canada and several large American states legalising the recreational use of cannabis, responsible investors should look to establishing policies addressing the emerging cannabis industry, according to CAER. In a recent article, CAER's Jacob Laurent ...

Man Group to augment responsible investment, stewardship activities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 AUG 2018  |  NEWS
... around ESG characteristics, and also a pronounced tilt towards better governance. There are ways we can determine that from a quant basis, but I think our approach will include a qualitative aspect as well. How investment teams might specialise in one ...

ACCR, CAER study gender pay gap at ASX100 companies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUL 2018  |  NEWS
More than a quarter of ASX100 companies do not have a remuneration policy that covers gender pay equity, although the vast majority have conducted analysis to determination if they are any remuneration gaps between men and women, according to a new ...

Rosenberg Equities to manage $1bn ESG mandate for CalPERS

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUL 2018  |  NEWS
Rosenberg Equities has been appointed by the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) to manage a portfolio of environmental and socially responsible investments. Kathryn McDonald, director of investment strategy, AXA Rosenberg Rosenberg ...

New reporting tool to improve Australian packaging sustainability

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2018  |  NEWS
Ed note: The Sustainability Report is pleased to present this article from Alison Atherton, Research Principal at Institute for Sustainable Futures at the University of Technology Sydney By Alison Atherton, Institute for Sustainable Futures When sustainable ...