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BNP Paribas launches ESG reporting tool

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2015  |  NEWS
... exposure can impact on portfolios from the perspective of tracking error and market shifts akin to the global financial crisis, Gayer added. See Also: Role for custodian in ESG data analytics: BNP Paribas

Investment and the art of political maintenance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 DEC 2014  |  NEWS
... that brings the issue of systemic risk into that discussion," he said. "There are systemic issues - the global financial crisis, the tech bubble in 2000, climate change, etc., if you are exposed to those sorts of things, your individual managers may ...

Lonsec: responsible investment equity funds outperform

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... more defensive and have a quality bias, and quality as an investment style has been in favour since the global financial crisis, so that's obviously helped as well," Sweeney said. "If you look at Perpetual for example, it has a quality focus with a valuation ...

Learning from Europe's example in social investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
... revolution that will bring together the disaffected younger citizens in Europe who have been impacted by the global financial crisis and the "comfortable retirees" who have a safe retirement income but who desire to work for public good as well. He also ...

Northern Trust's Bowers on ESG and funds management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
... with changes to the way in which managers separate out alpha and beta, accelerated and endorsed by the global financial crisis. This approach to risk management by asset owners has influenced portfolio construction in many ways, and the interest in managing ...

Interest spurs new developments in social enterprise funding

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2014  |  NEWS
... finance, it's pretty tight and you can argue that maybe one of the reasons why Australia survived the global financial crisis is that the regulations are pretty robust. The regulatory framework was not designed to facilitate innovation, so the first ...

Looking for social, economic return by creating shared value

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
... what makes housing developments desirable, safe and healthy for residents. The index was developed post-global financial crisis as the company realised that innovation around shared value was a way of driving financial returns for shareholders, Barnard ...

ACSI: Average fixed CEO pay declined in 2012

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... (ACSI). Ann Byrne, ACSI CEO ACSI attributed this result to a higher level of investor scrutiny since the global financial crisis and the impact of the "two-strikes" rule. The decline in average fixed pay capped a five year period where average fixed ...

ACCSR focus on responsible leadership in conference, report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... Australia. Leeora Black "We've started to think about leadership because there have been so many crises - the global financial crisis for example - that have been a crisis of leadership," said Leeora Black, ACCSR managing director. "We all look and say ...

Industry leaders establish Banking and Finance Oath

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... and the group's chairman. "The origin of the Banking and Finance oath comes from observations from the global financial crisis and the importance of restoring trust in the broader financial services industry," Dunne said. "While organisations are all ...