Search Results

Showing 21 - 30 of 430 results for "Index"

ASIC considering wider lens for greenwashing focus

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 9 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... liable to mislead the public in representing that all securities in the Vanguard Ethically Conscious Global Aggregate Bond Index Fund (Hedged) (Fund) were screened against certain ESG criteria." Allegations against Mercer Super relate to seven 'Sustainable ...

Assessing companies ability to make the low carbon transition

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 6 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... lack of global standards and definitions around climate and transition, noted Tony Campos, head of sustainable investment, Index Investments Group at FTSE Russell. To help answer that challenge, FTSE Russell has partnered with the Transition Pathway ...

Impact investing as greenwashing antidote: T. Rowe Price

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 6 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... indices, but Balkrishna said it has performed strongly in comparison to other impact strategies. "We have been behind the index," he said. "The major reason for that is that if you look at the non-impact part of the index, we're looking at a small ...

Most inclusive Aussie orgs named

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 6 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... sectors, both Australian listed companies and local arms of international organisations. To make the Inclusive Employer Index, at least 60% of employees at self-nominated organisations completed a comprehensive survey on diversity and inclusion in their ...

ASX50 lags on disclosure of political spending: ACCR

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 19 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... companies on how well they govern their political spending against the Center for Political Accountability (CPA)'s CPA-Zicklin Index, the leading measure of transparency and accountability for corporate political expenditure and compared ASX companies' ...

Preparing to take advantage of the critical mineral story

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... opportunity. "Domestic transformation is one thing and our incredible opportunity - and the risky part - is of course that our index is made up of financials and resources. Our current resources companies - or a lot of them - if we don't do anything ...

Does sustainable investing underperform?

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 5 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... strategies in the US equity market. The study concluded that sustainable investing did not deliver higher returns than standard index funds. However, recent research from Kroll found that companies with better ESG ratings outperformed their peers with ...

BlackRock, SGX, and MSCI launch US$426M Singapore climate action ETF

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 19 SEP 2023  |  NEWS
... owners in Asia and a member of the Net Zero Asset Owners Alliance. The ETF tracks the MSCI AC Asia ex Japan Climate Action Index, part of the suite of MSCI Climate Action Indexes introduced in late 2022 that adopt a bottom-up approach, selecting the ...

Australian Ethical crowned most sustainable

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 SEP 2023  |  NEWS
... surprise. Managers with advanced or leader ratings have demonstrated consistent commitment to sustainability." The three largest index-fund managers, BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street are restricted with regards to sustainability in part because most ...

Asia ahead in Science Based Targets race

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 28 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
... targets was Japan at 201, followed by the UK at 181 and the US at 109. At the close of 2022, 40% of companies on the NIKKEI index, Japan's stock market index for the Tokyo Stock Exchange, had set science-based targets. China saw the steepest growth curve ...