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ESG integration into quantitative investment management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
There is a growing use of environmental and social factors as part of quantitative investment techniques in equity portfolios, with fund managers integrating ESG data to either screen out undesired stocks, or to create customised benchmarks that tilt ...

PRI finds limited disclosure of fracking activity, impacts

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
... The group have combined assets under management of around US$6 trillion and include including Alphinity Investment Management (AU), Boston Common Asset Management (US), CalSTRS (US), Calvert Investments (US), Mirova Asset Management (FR), Nordea (SE) ...

UCA Funds Management sets exclusions in fossil fuel policy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2014  |  NEWS
... Management is an entity of the Uniting Church of Australia, Synod of Victoria and Tasmania, and provides investment management for charities, faith-based organisations and their members. It has AU$900 million in assets under management and has three ...

AMP Capital, Goodman join GRESB

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 FEB 2014  |  NEWS
... have also recently joined GRESB: CapitaLand, one of Asia's largest real estate companies; Heitman, a global investment management firm with more than US$29 billion in assets under management; SNS Asset Management, a subsidiary of SNS REAAL Group with ...

NZ Super Fund invests in wind turbine developer

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 DEC 2013  |  NEWS
... opportunities around the world. The Innovation Alliance is a co-investment vehicle between NZ Super, the Alberta Investment Management Corporation (AIMCo) and Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA). The three funds signed a memorandum of understanding ...

VicSuper chooses SSgA for active global equities ESG mandate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
... developed the new benchmark in consultation with their investment adviser, Towers Watson, and with BlackRock Investment Management and index provider Barclays Capital. In July of this year, Local Government Super (LGS) announced it had selected SSgA ...

RIAA to engage NZ investors on climate change, investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
New Zealand investment management professionals will debate climate change and unburnable carbon among other topics at the Responsible Investment Association Australasia (RIAA) briefing in Auckland today. Simon O'Connor, RIAA CEO The 4 th annual Responsible ...

UCA Funds Management appoints Terry McCredden to board

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
... Management is an entity of the Uniting Church of Australia, Synod of Victoria and Tasmania and provides investment management for charities, faith-based organisations and their members. It has AU$900 million in assets under management and has three portfolios ...

Standard Life hires Amanda Young as head of SRI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... Head of Sustainable and Responsible Investment (SRI). Young comes to Standard Life Investments from Newton Investment Management. She is also a main board director of the UK Sustainable Investment and Finance Association (UKSIF). She is also a member ...

PRI: ESG factors material to sovereign bond creditworthiness

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... BlueBay Asset Management LLP, Breckinridge Capital Advisors, Danske Bankm Deutsche Bank Advisors, Generation Investment Management LLP, Global Evolution, Hermes Fund Managers Limited, HSBC Global Asset Management, Maplecroft, MN, MSCI, oekom research ...