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Northern Trust AM names head of sustainable investing and stewardship

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAY 2021  |  NEWS
... organization." Moret also serves as a member on a number of industry organizations focused on advancing sustainable investment principles and best practices, including: the Investor Advisory Group at the Sustainable Accounting Standards Board, ICI's ...

New CEO search underway for IGCC

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 29 APR 2021  |  NEWS
... services segment," Dabbs says. Herd spoke at FS Sustainability 's digital roundtable on the future of sustainable investment late last year, noting that because Australian institutional investors own a slice of the entire Australian economy by virtue ...

BlackRock hires former AMP Capital head to ESG role

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 15 APR 2021  |  NEWS
... of Blackrock Sustainable Investing (BSI) for Asia Pacific. Woodland was formerly AMP Capital's head of sustainable investment, a role she held from 2018 until last year. In her former role, she led AMP Capital's specialist ESG public markets fund range ...

ESG investing growing strongly in Asia: J.P. Morgan Asset Management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 APR 2021  |  NEWS
... trend, it is absolutely Japan, Australia and New Zealand where we've seen the biggest drive when it comes to sustainable investment," Hui said. "You will also see that more generally institutional investors will typically lead that effort. You have someone ...

AustralianSuper adds sustainable ETFs to platform

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
AustralianSuper has added two sustainable ETFs from VanEck to its Member Direct platform. The VanEck Vectors MSCI International Sustainable Equity ETF (ESGI), VanEck Vectors MSCI Australian Sustainable Equity ETF (GRNV) will now be on offer to AustralianSuper ...

What's in a name: evaluating the goals behind net zero targets

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
... typically involves attempting to reduce emissions in line with the Paris Agreement," said Louise Lew, head of sustainable investment - Australia, Willis Towers Watson. "This means starting with current emission levels, approximately halving those levels ...

Green economy a multi-trillion dollar opportunity: FTSE Russell

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
... an internal team to model data based on estimates from available information, said Lee Clements, head of sustainable investment solutions at FTSE Russell. "We concentrate on getting all of that data where it's available," he said. "We then do that model ...

BlackRock seeks plans for company transition to net zero

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... instance of sustainable funds' resilience that we have seen in prior downturns. And the broader array of sustainable investment options will continue to drive investor interest in these funds, as we have seen in 2020."

ESG funds show strong risk-adjusted returns: Rainmaker

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 14 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... investment process will result in improved risk-adjusted returns over the long-term, said Louise Lew, head of sustainable investment - Australia, Willis Towers Watson "We use a portfolio quality scorecard to assess how a portfolio is positioned in a ...

CSC partners with Osmosis IM on sustainable strategy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 22 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
... research process to standardise unstructured corporate environmental data, enabling the construction of a sustainable investment factor which the firm identifies as being uncorrelated to other common factors. When applied to a diversified portfolio ...