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LeapFrog Investments names Julia Gillard to leadership council

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 7 NOV 2019  |  NEWS
... and networks will be invaluable as LeapFrog continues to grow dozens of purpose-driven companies that are reshaping industries, countries and millions of lives." Since its launch in 2008, LeapFrog Investments companies have grown on average at 35%, according ...

Incorporating climate risk into investing, finance, and insurance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 NOV 2019  |  NEWS
... Industry Moves Rade Muslin is a climate risk expert from the US who has worked with governments, businesses, and the farm industries to address the risks that come from extreme ecological events. He shares insights into how the global conversation is ...

Wilderness Society links deforestation to beef production, supply chain risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 NOV 2019  |  NEWS
... land use and food production," noted Amanda Richman, ethics analyst at Australian Ethical. Investments in food-related industries must form part of a healthy diet, be produced in an environmentally sustainable way - which includes deforestation, and ...

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

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 OCT 2019  |  NEWS
... have outperformed the carbon laggards... This result held even outside of the carbon-intensive energy and utilities industries. The relative performance and rate of change in emissions matter most for future earnings and financial performance, we find ...

Sustainable practices can yield sustainable profits: Calvert

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 OCT 2019  |  NEWS
... the Eaton Vance Company. The report found that sustainability practices have converged across companies within most industries, but companies with strategic differentiators on their sustainability practices are associated with higher return on capital. ...

Emerging markets bring exposure to unmanaged ESG risk: Sustainalytics

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 SEP 2019  |  NEWS
... types of ESG risk. For example, if you're working towards, say, mitigating human rights risk, you could look at the industries and companies that are facing high levels of human rights risks and underweight them in an indexed based investment strateg ...

Companies increase ESG reporting, but "glaring gaps" remain: ACSI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 AUG 2019  |  NEWS
... use a wider range of metrics, but we find a lack of comparability, even with year to year reporting," Davidson said. "Industries that are more exposed tend to be ahead of the game, especially the industry leaders in the industries that ted to be more ...

Responsible investment a fundamental practice in NZ: RIAA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2019  |  NEWS
... and positive, and what I have seen in launching this year's report is a sense that exclusions and avoiding harmful industries is well embedded and accepted across the industry, to a much greater extent. "We're at a point where its' largely expected that ...

RIAA certifies two Legg Mason funds as Responsible Investments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2019  |  NEWS
... proprietary bottom-up ESG research process with "clear investment restrictions to screen out companies, sectors and industries not meeting pre-determined ethical criteria, said Will Baylis, portfolio manager for Ethical Income at Martin Currie Australia. ...

IOSCO releases statement on ESG-related disclosures

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2019  |  NEWS
... a local level. This trend has resulted in an increase in the overall level of disclosure of ESG information in some industries. However, IOSCO also observes that disclosure practices remain varied among issuers. The type of information disclosed, as ...