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Mercer: green bonds deserve investment consideration

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
Green bonds have relatively simple structures and credit quality and yield levels similar to AAA bonds, meriting "consideration as an allocation within a fixed interest portfolio," but a lack of issuance depth is a challenge for institutional investors ...

Investor Profile: Omega Global Investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... change of the diesel busses. Where that's good as a green bond investor is that you're lending money to the World Bank - it's AAA rated, it's backed by governments, they have their own balance sheet, they have good governance, and the proceeds are directed ...

LGS ESG sovereign debt strategy includes green bond tilt

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... away from the ESG risks and then towards better performing countries to alleviate those risks." The fund is concentrated on AAA-rated and higher credit rated bonds, and in addition to the macro-risks that Hartnett outlined, also included ratings on other ...

MSCI launches ESG ratings for sovereign bonds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... securities or whose debt is thinly traded. MSCI ESG Sovereign Ratings score and rate countries on a seven point scale from 'AAA' (best) to 'CCC' (worst). Ratings are derived from 0-10 scores on underlying factors across environmental, social and governance. ...

Integrating ESG to enhance quantitative-style investment analysis

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
... the management of risk. Last but not least, we compare companies within a sector through a peer group rating and ranking ('AAA-CCC'). Following this, each sector is subject to an annual review and updated on a rolling basis in response to major events." ...
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