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Russell Investments launches Low Carbon Global Shares Fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 OCT 2017  |  NEWS
... Global Shares Fund, designed to reduce the exposure to carbon emissions and carbon reserves by 50% of the MSCI ACWI benchmark. James Harwood, portfolio manager, Russell Investments The fund uses Russell Investment's proprietary decarbonisation investment ...

Responsible Investment Certification Program certifies BetaShares Global Sustainability Leaders ETF

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 OCT 2017  |  NEWS
... certified as responsibly invested," said Alex Vynokur, BetaShares managing director. "This accreditation provides a good benchmark for investors to know that what they are putting their money into is an ethically responsible fund." ETHI's screening criteria ...

IGCC annual conference discusses managing climate change risk, solutions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 OCT 2017  |  NEWS
... manager governance, sustainable investments at UniSuper noted that the superannuation fund tended to be underweight the benchmark in its exposures to fossil fuels, and had "almost no thermal coal" exposure. Where the fund has exposures to fossil fuels ...

Woolworths facing shareholder resolution asking for human rights supply chain disclosure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 OCT 2017  |  NEWS
... ACCR recently commissioned research firm CAER to assess Australian listed companies against the Corporate Human Rights Benchmark (CHRB), and in the research, which will be released in the near future, Woolworths scored under 20%. In its explanatory material ...

Considering the first 20 years of the Global Reporting Initiative

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 SEP 2017  |  NEWS
... macro-challenges, Gruber said. "It is a concise set of standards, a concise level of responsibility that organisations can benchmark against," Gruber said. "I think the benchmarking is going to be absolutely critical for companies worldwide. It's a case ...

Strong uptick in participation in second GRESB Infrastructure Assessment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 SEP 2017  |  NEWS
... GRESB. "With coverage across 24 countries and 25 sub-sectors, GRESB Infrastructure is rapidly becoming the global ESG benchmark for the sector. The sector significantly improved ESG-performance across all GRESB Aspects of the Asset Assessment. While ...

SSGA Global Index Plus Trust to exclude tobacco, controversial weapons

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 SEP 2017  |  NEWS
... which are US-listed companies, SSGA said. "One of the key parts of the proposal this time was to actually leave the benchmark unchanged," Shead said. "We were satisfied that we could run a low-risk active fund like this excluding tobacco and controversial ...

Negatively screened funds grow by over 2500% in New Zealand: RIAA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 AUG 2017  |  NEWS
... in the use of negative screens to avoid investments in tobacco and controversial weapons, the Responsible Investment Benchmark Report 2017 found. The controversy and immediate response of putting in place negative screens has caused the investment management ...

CEFC lends $32m for construction of green student accommodation project

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 AUG 2017  |  NEWS
... making our first property-related commitment in Adelaide," said Ian Learmonth, CEFC CEO. "This project will lift the benchmark for building standards in student accommodation, representing an important step toward achieving net zero carbon buildings". ...

International Finance Corporation launches NZ dollar-denominated green bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 AUG 2017  |  NEWS
... market operations. He added, "As of July 2017, IFC has issued approximately $6 billion in green bonds, including two benchmark $1 billion issuances - the largest in the market at that time." The IFC is a pioneer in the green bond market, starting with ...