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V-Square launches ESG index strategy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 4 AUG 2022  |  NEWS
V-Square Quantitative Management has launched an ESG and carbon transition index strategy that aligns with the Your Future, Your Super performance test. The V-Square MSCI Global Equity ESG Materiality and Carbon Transition Indexed Strategy tracks the ...

Invest in sustainable development for positive return: RadiantESG

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 2 AUG 2022  |  NEWS
... management firm is focused on ESG investment opportunities for institutional and wealth management clients. The firm uses quantitative management strategies and techniques to evaluate companies from a financial and sustainable impact perspective. "It ...

Resource efficiency a marker for investment performance: Osmosis

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUL 2022  |  NEWS
... Efficiency factor has been performing, very consistently over time across regions and sectors," said Tom Steffen a quantitative researcher at Osmosis. "Analysing 17 years of data, going back to 2005, there were 15 years where the signal worked really ...

Zurich accelerates net zero commitments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUL 2022  |  NEWS
... Zurich's strategic metrics." As part of that, Zurich at the global level has strengthened TCFD disclosure of quantitative impacts of climate risk on the underwriting and investment portfolio. This was supported at local level, and the Australia and ...

Emerging markets improving on ESG: Bank of America

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUN 2022  |  NEWS
... social or governance issues," said Girish Nair, co-head of APAC ESG research and director, global and Asia Pacific quantitative strategy. "Environmental issues always come up at the top. That's been led by action in the EU, which mandated disclosures ...

US SEC proposes new disclosure for ESG funds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAY 2022  |  NEWS
... designed to meet demand from investors seeking environmentally focused fund investments for consistent and comparable quantitative information regarding the GHG emissions associated with their portfolios and to allow investors to make decisions in line ...

Redpoint poaches PMs from ART

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 APR 2022  |  NEWS
... responsible and impact investment capabilities, blending the deep global knowledge that they bring with our active quantitative approach," said Redpoint CEO Max Cappetta. "This expertise will enable us to provide our clients with strategies that have ...

Plato Investment Management launches net zero hedge fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 31 JAN 2022  |  NEWS
... Management's head of long/short strategies, said the strategy gains a unique edge from Plato's established propriety quantitative systems, along with the integration of new ESG data points. "Importantly the strategy is underpinned by Plato's proprietary ...

YFYS, tracking error a challenge to ESG adoption: Parametric

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 27 JAN 2022  |  NEWS
... would benefit from applying optimisation-based portfolio construction tools. "One of the benefits of using a more quantitative portfolio optimisation approach is, while you can't completely neutralise tracking error, you can make changes around the edges," ...

Using data, reporting to fill in the steps to net zero 2050: Northern Trust

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 25 JAN 2022  |  NEWS
... carbon metrics, physical risk and transition risk details for the portfolio level, according to Scott Bennett, head of quantitative research and client solutions, Australia and New Zealand at Northern Trust Asset Management. "Many of the institutional ...