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State Street Global Advisors launch Climate ESG International Equity Fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
State Street Global Advisors has launched a climate-aware fund of international equities. Nathalie Wallace, global head ESG investment strategy. State Street Global Advisors The State Street Climate ESG International Equity Fund "seeks to achieve capital ...

Collaboration a competitive advantage for super on ESG: NGS Super

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
... things as of mid-2019." NGS Super has also moved to provide live disclosure of proxy voting as well as mapping their equities portfolio against the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), King said. "That was a really interesting exercise," she said. "We ...

ESG focus on climate change, income inequality: T. Rowe Price

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
... research model - the Responsible Investing Indicator Model (RIIM) - a rating system for invested companies, used across equities, fixed income and credit. Portfolio managers have discretion on how they use the information, Drew noted. In 2019 2019 T. ...

Pivot to virtual AGMs, communication offer opportunities: Redback Connect

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
... virtual events has skyrocketed - broker calls, small and large group calls, big virtual conferences like the Macquarie Equities conference. For those companies that are December year end, they have been having virtual AGMs, and working through what it's ...

U Ethical on resilience, engagement during COVID-19

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
Ethical fund manager U Ethical is reporting resilience in its equities funds in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. Georgina Laird, Jon Fernie, U Ethical "Sustainable strategies have held up pretty well, whether it's ethical, ESG or sustainability strategies ...

Northern Trust launches ESG Analytics Summary for investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
... analytical assessment is something that we're looking at in the future." Currently the ESG Analytics Service covers listed equities and corporate fixed income, but in future, it could be extended to other asset classes. "If we're looking at private equity ...

Evidence links ESG performance to company, fund performance in crisis

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2020  |  NEWS
... FTSE 100, have experienced their worst quarter since 1987. The MSCI All Country World Index (MSCI ACWI), an index of equities from developed and emerging markets, fell by a third from its peak in early February to its quarterly low in late March, Takatsuki ...

ESG indices, products faring relatively better in coronavirus response

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2020  |  NEWS
... Exchange traded funds (ETFs) with ethical screens are showing similar trajectory. BetaShares' ethical ETFS - the Australian equities ETF FAIR and the international equities ETF ETHI - have shown similar outperformance. Fair is down 20.77% year to date ...

AXA IM develops carbon footpath strategy based on forward climate action

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
... polluters, despite the evolutionary path they're on," said Kathryn McDonald, Head of Sustainable Investing, AXA IM Rosenberg Equities. "It's incumbent on us as an industry to be forthcoming in what can we achieve with divestment. As common equity holders ...

Energy Super taps Robeco for $650m enhanced indexing mandate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
... integrating value, momentum and quality factors," the fund manager said. The mandate is managed by Robeco's Quantitative Equities team, which consists of more than 40 portfolio managers and quantitative researchers dedicated to quantitative investing ...