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Willingness to pay affects BlackRock sovereign debt scores

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... opinion poll popularity of Jakarta governor Joko Widodo in next year's presidential election. Norway, Singapore, Switzerland, Sweden, Finland, Germany, Taiwan, Australia, Canada and New Zealand were the in the top 10 quintile for performance against ...

Northern Trust develops emerging markets low CO2 fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... experience in managing socially responsible portfolios and socially screened assets. AP4 is one of five buffer funds in Sweden's national pension system. At year-end 2012, the fund's assets under management totalled SEK 230 billion.

European Commission proposes standards for ESG disclosure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... which go beyond the standards in the Fourth Company Law Directive - the European Commission cites standards in the UK, Sweden, Spain, Denmark and France that have either been adopted or updated. "This proposal could be the vital catalyst that is needed ...

UN Global Compact, GRI most cited CSR instruments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... 1,000 and 10,000 employees across 10 different EU member states - Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, UK, Czech Republic, and Poland. Overall, the survey found that 68% of the sample companies make reference to "corporate social ...

LGS buys into IFC green bond issue

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... but it's more liquid than credit," McCrum said. "The main issue isn't liquidity - it's that the issuance in places like Sweden and Japan is more retail driven. You can get more Yen exposure in green bonds, for example, but the issue is that the bonds ...

Omega: governance measurements reduce bond portfolio risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
... is what we're after." Using the metric has led Omega to be underweight the US, Japan and Italy, and overweight Finland, Sweden, Canada, Germany, Denmark and the UK. Omega has begun presenting this research to clients, McCrum said. "It's definitely something ...

Investor Profile: Omega Global Investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... those measures. Spain is a zero weight. Plus we have higher exposures to the Scandinavian countries such as Norway and Sweden. There are also countries that we are underweight relative to the benchmark -countries like US and Japan. The reason that we're ...

Australia in top ten for GRI sustainability reporting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... was first, registering 11% total number of registered reports, Spain was second with 8% of total registered reports and Sweden third with 6%, according to GRI analysis. Europe is the region with the largest percentage of GRI reports in 2011, with 47% ...

PRI signatories develop farmland principles

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... oversight and governance in investments in farmland. The Farmland Principles were developed by eight PRI signatories - AP2 (Sweden), ABP (Netherlands), APG (Netherlands), ATP (Denmark), BT Pension Scheme (UK), Hermes EOS (UK), PGGM (Netherlands) and ...

"Steady but modest" increase in number of women directors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAR 2011  |  NEWS
... committees. The top three countries with highest aggregate percentage of female directors were Norway, with 35.6 percent, Sweden with 27.3 percent and Finland with 24.5 percent.
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