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Substantial investment needed for sustainable infrastructure: RARE Infrastructure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... infrastructure companies and regulators, providing attractive returns to equity holders to help fund that growth. This presents upside opportunity for investors in infrastructure, RARE said in the report. "As we looked at how the policy environment was ...

BNP Paribas issues $140m in equity-linked green bonds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... bond portion, the principal is protected. There is the certainty of the fixed coupon, and equity portion is exposed to the upside of the index. The equity portion is based off of the ACT Index. The ACT Index uses five "dynamic" climate scenarios, which ...

Four structural challenges for business to navigate post-lockdown: PGIM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
... This is something I'm curious to see. If you think about it from the perspective of an equity investor - you're trading upside for earnings per share in exchange for downside protection. What may feed into that is how regular a feature supply chain disruptions ...

AXA IM develops carbon footpath strategy based on forward climate action

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
... intensity as the same rate as a divestment strategy, but it allows investors to manage other investment risk and seek potential upside return in investing in leaders that are better able to navigate the changing landscape, McDonald said. "More philosophically ...

ESG data can augment low-volatility quant strategies: Northern Trust

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 JAN 2020  |  NEWS
... thesis of the strategy is that you want to participate in the equity market when the market is going up, with a fairly large upside beta, but you want to avoid the downside when the market is going down," said Michael Hunstad, head of quantitative strategies ...

ESG standards improving in emerging markets: T. Rowe Price

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 NOV 2019  |  NEWS
... considerations are particularly important as there are many companies that appear very cheap and to have solid long-term upside potential based on traditional financial factor analysis alone," the paper said. "However, by also including analysis of nonfinancial ...

Sustainalytics outlines ten key global ESG risks for 2018

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 FEB 2018  |  NEWS
... risk perspective," said Martin Vezer, senior associate, thematic research at Sustainalytics. "So instead of looking at upside themes, we thought we'd take a downside perspective. What we did was we reached out to our sector teams and asked everyone to ...

Investment professionals identify key ESG themes for 2017

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 JAN 2017  |  NEWS
... in these sectors are having to deal with this issue of storing and sitting on vast amounts of data. We definitely see an upside for companies like Symantec." Environmental themes are another dominant issue again in 2017. Credit Suisse ESG Research also ...

Investors have "no place to hide" from climate change impacts: BlackRock

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 SEP 2016  |  NEWS
... there can be little downside to gradually incorporating climate factors into the investment process - and even potential upside." See Also: The price of climate change to impact portfolios: BlackRock BlackRock presses case for better ESG disclosures ...

Conduct risk a concern for financial services sector: Ausbil

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAY 2016  |  NEWS
... chain," Carlsson-Sweeny said. "Their remuneration structures can be very short term, which presents a situation of high upside return for low downside risk for breaches. That's a thematic issue for the financial services industry as a whole." Carlsson-Sweeny ...

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Santos receives takeover offer from Abu Dhabi-led consortium

ANDREW MCKEAN
Santos has received a non-binding $8.89 per share cash offer from the XRG Consortium, led by XRG P.J.S.C., a subsidiary of Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ANDOC), alongside Abu Dhabi's sovereign wealth fund ADQ and US private equity firm Carlyle.

What do the best-functioning boards look like?

KARREN VERGARA
The best-functioning boards are future thinkers, understand their ESG responsibilities and are able to show their "battle scars," according to two governance experts.

Funding lifts for climate, health, people startups

KARREN VERGARA
While funding for impact startups has broadly declined, those operating in climate, health and people has seen funding levels improve compared to three years ago, according to the Impact Startups Benchmark Report 2025.

Mind the gap: Investors' role in balancing fairness and competitiveness in executive pay

ALEXANDRE PROST
Investors have a significant role to play in helping to move the dial on executive remuneration, aiming to increase fairness and reduce inequality.

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