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S&P Dow Jones launches new ESG indices

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 29 APR 2021  |  NEWS
... Dividend Aristocrats Index. The S&P ESG Dividend Aristocrats Indices applies S&P Global's ESG scores to establish the investible universe. The indices apply additional screens and exclude companies that are involved in specific business activities, including ...

Investors integrating ESG into securities lending: State Street

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 22 APR 2021  |  NEWS
... commercial paper, sovereign debt and corporate debt and then applying the ESG scores," Chua says. "This is where we get an investible set. The other thing they do is screen out controversial issues at the start to eliminate them."

Ausbil drops fossil fuel companies from sustainable fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 18 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
... companies with more than 10% direct or indirect earnings derived from fossil fuels has excluded a further 10.5% of the investible universe, Carlsson said. In total, approximately 25% of the ASX200 index is excluded from the investible universe of the ...

Industry considers Australian sustainable finance taxonomy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 10 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
... implementation, Cheang said. "A lot of work has been done on establishing definitions and agreeing the targets and scanning the investible universe. If you had, for instance, a standard definition on what an impact investment fund was, then when your ...

Climate, modern slavery areas of engagement: Ethical Partners

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... Development Goals, because the firm believes that the SDGs represent strategic opportunities - or potential risks- for investible companies. "The SDGs are another big push, but that's such a wide and vast topic," Robyn Parkin said. "I think it's ...

Rainmaker Group acquires The Sustainability Report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2019  |  NEWS
... 2011, The Sustainability Report is a weekly digital publication that provides unique, in-depth writing covering how investible Australian companies manage disclose and communicate their ESG risks and opportunities, and how Australian institutional asset ...

T. Rowe Price evaluates sustainability impacts of plastic consumption

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2019  |  NEWS
... outlining the sustainability impacts of the consumption and disposal of plastics, with particular regard to impacts on investible companies. "We think that plastic basically presents a severe sustainability challenge, and a lot of those challenges have ...

Fidelity International appoints Jenn-Hui Tan global head of stewardship

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2019  |  NEWS
... develop its capabilities in this area, most recently with the launch of our own sustainability ratings covering our investible universe of 3,000 issuers,"Anand said. "We're delighted to promote Jenn-Hui to this important global role. He has played an ...

Climate Bond Initiative identifies nearly 400 green infrastructure projects

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 AUG 2018  |  NEWS
... to meet the target of restricting climate change to 2 degrees of warming, Kidney noted that most of the projects are investible. "We have to invest about $90 to $100 trillion by the middle of the century," Kidney said. "We have the money, and by some ...

Perpetual launches new Ethical SRI Credit Fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUN 2018  |  NEWS
... characteristics of fixed income, while offering the potential for strong cash-plus returns, Perpetual said. The fund takes the investible security universe of the Diversified Income Fund, and screens out the securities that don't meet the ethical and ...