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US Dept of Labor green-lights ESG integration

JAMIE WILLIAMSON, RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 NOV 2022  |  NEWS
... the US$253.1 billion State Board of Administration (SBA) have banned ESG from considerations of the state's fund management practices. Meanwhile, Goldman Sachs Asset Management is paying US$4 million to settle charges brought by the US regulator ...

Missouri pulls BlackRock mandate in anti-ESG move

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 20 OCT 2022  |  NEWS
... the US$253.1 billion State Board of Administration (SBA) have banned ESG from considerations of the state's fund management practices. DeSantis and the two other trustees of the SBA, state CFO Jimmy Patronis, and state Attorney General Ashley Moody ...

Florida gov bans ESG from state pension investments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 25 AUG 2022  |  NEWS
... the US$253.1 billion State Board of Administration (SBA) have banned ESG from considerations of the state's fund management practices. DeSantis and the two other trustees of the SBA, state CFO Jimmy Patronis, and state Attorney General Ashley Moody ...

Top 100 asset owners "hold keys" to net zero: Willis Towers Watson

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 25 NOV 2021  |  NEWS
... has galvanised the momentum that was already there." Six Australian asset owners appear in the list - The Future Fund Management Agency at number 42, AustralianSuper at number 46, Aware Super at 63, QIC at 75, TCorp at 765 and QSuper at 96. Pension funds ...

Australian government "faffing about" on climate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 16 NOV 2021  |  NEWS
... countries. Scaysbrook has more than two decades in energy and renewable infrastructure, including stints at Hastings Fund Management. Scaysbrook cited domestic momentum towards decarbonisation policies in Western Europe, the US, the UK and SE Asia, but ...

HSBC AM takes stake in women-owned ESG investment firm

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUL 2021  |  NEWS
... year and told FS Sustainability at the time that their goal was to find a partner with which to launch a boutique fund management firm. "We really wanted to launch that full fund management model and develop portfolios that can identify companies that ...

Infrastructure manager joins Principles for Responsible Investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUN 2021  |  NEWS
... working with them." TRUE was founded in December 2020 by Mike Fitzpatrick, founder and former owner of Hastings Fund Management, and McGregor, ex-head of infrastructure and utilities at Goldman Sachs JBWere and ex-CEO of the Australian Infrastructure ...

Evidence links ESG performance to company, fund performance in crisis

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2020  |  NEWS
... being ESG investors, Birgden confirmed that there is an emerging trend of outperformance in comparison to other fund management styles. "In the short term there is ESG performance outperformance emerging during COVID-19, in part because highly rated ...

Companies that manage ESG issues "more resilient": Saturna Capital

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2020  |  NEWS
... Capital Saturna Capital offers two strategies that integrate ESG analysis - the Saturna Sustainable Funds, but the fund management firm's approach to considering sustainable performance is an outgrowth of of of its original fund offerings, which is Sharia-compliant ...

MSCI issues guide for investor reporting to TCFD guidelines

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2019  |  NEWS
... it to have a better world, or is it to have a more resilient portfolio, for example?" Currently, there are six fund management groups that have signed on to the TCFD as supporters - Australian Ethical Investment, Pendal Group, Intrinsic Investment Management ...