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BetaShares ethical ETFs surpass $1 billion funds under management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JAN 2020  |  NEWS
... U.S. In addition to the positive and negative screens of the ETFs, BetaShares has an investment committee that oversees the index companies' performance to ESG criteria. "The committee is there to regularly review the data and determine which stocks ...

Eurozone outperforms North America in ESG investing: Amundi

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2020  |  NEWS
... contributed to an annualised return of 2.9% in the Eurozone and 1.6% in North America," Amundi said. "Similarly, optimized index management, in which the weighting of companies in the index is optimized to obtain the lowest possible tracking error, would ...

Analysis: too big to be sustainable?

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 NOV 2019  |  NEWS
... Indices rated Westpac Australia's most sustainable bank, and the 9th most sustainable bank in the world for its 2019 index series. Rachel Alembakis, editor, The Sustainability Report DJSI isn't the only one to have held a positive view of Westpac ...

S&P Global to acquire ESG ratings business from RobecoSAM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 NOV 2019  |  NEWS
... relative to their peers. S&P Global and RobecoSAM have a previously existing partnership through the Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI). Robeco and RobecoSAM will continue to use the CSA data for use in investment strategies and will provide advice ...

Quantitative managers test ESG data as stand-alone factor in strategies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 OCT 2019  |  NEWS
... traditional risk factors, you could see some historical outperformance." Huang cited BlackRock research across the MSCI World index that demonstrates that companies that have the highest rate of carbon emissions reductions also demonstrate outperformance. ...

Colonial First State launches Baillie Gifford Global Stewardship Fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 OCT 2019  |  NEWS
... Baillie Gifford's Global Stewardship UK composite has achieved a net return of 5.7% p.a. over the MSCI All Country World Index benchmark (as at 30 June 2019). Baillie Gifford has been an investment manager within CFS' FirstChoice Multi-Manager portfolios ...

Sustainalytics rates unmanaged ESG risk in ASX200

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2019  |  NEWS
... the weighted average ESG risk score, our analysis found that the S&P/ASX 200 is favourably positioned compared to global index benchmarks, in terms of slightly less unmanaged risk," said Enrico Colombo, senior associate, Asia-Pacific research, Sustainalytics. ...

Extreme weather increases through Autumn 2019: Actuaries Institute

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 SEP 2019  |  NEWS
... most extreme season in Australia in the number of hot days ever recorded, according to the Australian Actuaries Climate Index. "The frequency of extreme high temperatures in Autumn 2019 was 96% above the long-term average (i.e. a near doubling)," according ...

Emerging markets bring exposure to unmanaged ESG risk: Sustainalytics

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 SEP 2019  |  NEWS
... Vezer, manager, thematic research, Sustainalytics Sustainalytics recently compared the stocks comprising the FTSE Emerging Index with the stocks comprising the FTSE Developed Index, and found emerging market stocks are exposed to over 14% more unmanaged ...

BlackRock launches unlisted iShares ESG Global Bond Index Fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 AUG 2019  |  NEWS
BlackRock Investment Management has launched a new unlisted iShares ESG Global Bond Index Fund. The fund is benchmarked to a customised Bloomberg Barclays MSCI Global Aggregate SRI Select ex-Fossil Fuels Index and is AUD hedged. It is "designed for ...