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Remuneration consultant disclosure regime questioned

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 DEC 2013  |  NEWS
... money in 2012 or because they were taking recommendations in 2012." The professional services firms - PwC, Deloitte/Towers Watson, KPMG, Ernst & Young, Mercer and Egan Associates were consultants commonly disclosed as providing remuneration advice, the ...

VicSuper chooses SSgA for active global equities ESG mandate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
... willingness and ability to repay debt. VicSuper developed the new benchmark in consultation with their investment adviser, Towers Watson, and with BlackRock Investment Management and index provider Barclays Capital. In July of this year, Local Government ...

PRI: ESG factors material to sovereign bond creditworthiness

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... pension funds invest in sovereign debt because of a perceived lower risk profile - the PRI cites a 2013 study by Towers Watson that found the average pension fund has 34% of its portfolio in fixed income. "While ESG analysis has been applied increasingly ...

VicSuper integrates governance risk into bond portfolio

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... public sector superannuation fund has developed the new benchmark in consultation with their investment adviser, Towers Watson, and with BlackRock Investment Management and index provider Barclays Capital. "We are concerned about sovereign debt," said ...

Responsible investment in The Asian Century

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... against the risks of climate change and carbon intensive industries, said Hugh Dougherty, head of manager research for Towers Watson in Australia and a member of the Global Sustainable Investments team. "The difficulty institutions have in Australia ...

Sustainable investing needed as global economy transforms

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
Investment consultants Towers Watson believes that the world economies are in a period of transformation across a range of environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors, and institutional investors need a similar level of transformation to their ...

DEXUS profits up, water, energy and GHG intensity down

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... identified by DEXUS as a material issue for the company, DEXUS said it outperformed in 18 of the top 19 categories of the Towers Watson Australian National Norm and in several categories of the Global High Performing Norm. In the second half of 2011 ...

Investors integrating ESG into decisions have "an edge"

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... their analysis and decision making have an advantage, according to Jane Goodland, a senior investment consultant at Towers Watson. "We have an investment belief-led approach at Towers Watson and we work with clients in terms of trying to explore their ...

Regnan appoint Amanda Wilson managing director

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
... experience on human capital management, performance and reward, and mergers and acquisitions, including nine years with Towers Watson. Regnan, established as an independent business in 2007 represents institutional investors with around AU$59bn invested ...

Imbalances, sustainability and their impact on investing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
... defaults are not, at first pass, connected to each other, when Tim Hodgson, senior investment consultant and head of Towers Watson's Thinking Ahead Group talks about both, the word "imbalances" come up in both. Hodgson believes sustainability and sovereign ...