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ESG standards improving in emerging markets: T. Rowe Price

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 NOV 2019  |  NEWS
... investment team as well as external research to seek out stocks where business is "on the right side of change," and ESG integration is part of that process. Engaging directly with companies can augment research and uncover stocks that had poor performance ...

Fiduciary duty, regulatory environment top ESG push factors: SSGA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 NOV 2019  |  NEWS
... include a lack of "reliable and consistent ESG data, followed by resourcing or cost issues associated with internal integration, infrastructure, knowledge-building and a lack of available ESG talent to manage integration." "That fiduciary duty was cited ...

Sustainable Digitalisation Project to set goals for real estate and cities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 NOV 2019  |  NEWS
... real estate sector and Australian cities. Simon Carter, managing director, Morphosis Digitalisation and the increased integration of digital technologies are a double edged sword, bringing benefits, but also presenting risks to environment, society and ...

Willis Towers Watson launches Australian Global Equity Focus Fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 NOV 2019  |  NEWS
... GEFF seeks to improve the risk profile and diversification benefits as well as investment return, Gray added. The ESG integration is both top-down and bottom-up, Gray said. "If you're picking stocks, we want the fund managers to be thinking about the ...

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

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 OCT 2019  |  NEWS
... adjustment for corporate actions, time stamping - but assuming we have these things then we can turn to the task of testing integration models." Rosenberg Equities integrates ESG data downstream and upstream. McDonald defined downstream as an ESG score ...

ASIC critiques management of non-financial risk in governance review

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 OCT 2019  |  NEWS
... statement by the Australian Accounting Standards Board (AASB) and Auditing & Assurance Standards Board (AuASB) on the integration of climate change-related risks into financial statement materiality considerations has intensified the soft law around ...

Put climate resilience at the core of business strategy: WBCSD

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 OCT 2019  |  NEWS
... the UN Climate Summit week, noted that there was a sentiment of the "end of the beginning" when it came to business integration of frameworks like the Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), science-based targets and other frameworks. ...

Aberdeen Standard Investments hires Danielle Welsh-Rose

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2019  |  NEWS
... responsibilities. Danielle Welsh-Rose, ESG investment director, Aberdeen Standard Investments Welsh-Rose will support the integration of ESG factors into ASI investment decision-making in Australia and across Asia-Pacific as well as advocate the importance ...

Robeco on ESG integration, SDGs and impact investing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 SEP 2019  |  NEWS
... (SDGs) as part of its integrated approach to sustainability in investing. Masja Zandbergen, head of sustainability integration at Robeco Masja Zandbergen, head of sustainability integration at Robeco, was recently in Australia speaking of Robeco's approach ...

MSCI Barra purchases data analytics firm Carbon Delta

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 SEP 2019  |  NEWS
... mandatory disclosure requirements are developing across the European Union and North America, MSCI noted. The Carbon Delta integration will augment MSCI's climate risk capabilities with modeling technology that supports climate scenario analysis and ...