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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 ...

Catholic Super hires investment manager for sustainability

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
... primary researcher and project manager for Mercer's February report, Climate Change Scenarios - Implications for Strategic Asset Allocation, which found that the impacts of climate change and lack of international policy coordination could cost institutional ...

Climate change issues integrated into investment decisions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
... Global Investor Survey on 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) ...

Integrating ESG to enhance quantitative-style investment analysis

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
... out is with a traditional quantitative metric like IR, which measures the risk-adjusted return of a financial security (or asset or portfolio) and is a ratio of expected active return divided by tracking error. Analysis of ESG risks could, in theory ...

Investor Profile: Australian Ethical Investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
James Thier is a a founding director of Australian Ethical Investment, a fund manager with AU$650m in assets under management that has specialised in ethical and sustainable investment since its 1986 inception. In addition to specialist funds, Australian ...

New water accounting standard to measure quantity, rights and obligations

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
The Water Accounting Standards Board (WASB) is in the process of developing the Australian Water Accounting Standard (AWAS), which will quantify information about water, rights and other claims to water, and obligations against water. The preliminary ...

Australia well placed to implement ETS

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
... frameworks for emissions trading in Australia. "Australia's financial markets capabilities should be regarded as a strategic asset providing Australia with a competitive advantage as the global economy makes the protracted and uncertain transition to ...

Companies investing in sustainable operations showing returns

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAY 2011  |  NEWS
... increasingly aware of the risks arising from the global mega-trends, and are seeking to understand how these issues impact asset values, earnings and future cash flows," the report noted. "There is a growing focus on the need for what is called 'responsible ...

Investor Profile: Colonial First State Global Asset Management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAY 2011  |  NEWS
Colonial First State Global Asset Management (CFSGAM) is a global asset management business with A$145.5bn in funds under management. A signatory to the UNPRI, CFSGAM integrates ESG analysis into all levels of its investment process. Here, Amanda McCluskey ...

KPMG: sustainability strategies driven by cost reduction, environment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAY 2011  |  NEWS
... robust way, when the landscape is not settled yet, in terms of what some of the implications of these issues are to the asset value. It's not mature. Even leading organisations that are trying to incorporate ESG into investments are struggling, and not ...