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Majority of asset owners identify ESG importance: bfinance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
A wide majority of Australian asset owners believe that ESG considerations are either very important or moderately important to setting investment strategy and implementation, according to a recent survey conducted by consultancy bfinance. bfinance ...

Taking a closer look at corporate lobbying on climate change

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... good or poor corporate climate change lobbying practices. Much of the literature on lobbying focuses on North America and Europe. Australian and New Zealand perspectives and experiences tend to get much less attention, and the lessons learned here are ...

J.P. Morgan Asset Management launches ESG integration policy statement

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
J.P. Morgan Asset Management has launched a new integrated ESG policy statement for its global funds management business. Jennifer Wu, global head of sustainable investing, J.P. Morgan Asset Management The new ESG policy includes a proprietary 10-point ...

Data enhances case for ESG as separate, interrelated factor to quality

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... stock portfolios since 2014, and that ESG can be considered a separate factor to the quality factor. Amundi note that in Europe, ESG has become a beta strategy and therefore is crucial for diversification in multifactor portfolios, while in North America ...

Korea Housing Finance Corporation prices COVID-19 social bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... conference calls and successfully issued its new Covered Bond at a near-zero yield while further expanding its investor base in Europe. The bond was issued under KHFC's Social Financing Framework, which meant a diverse investor base ranging from traditional ...

Global stimulus an opportunity for sustainable investment: Ninety One

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
... acknowledge that in terms of its size, the stimulus in place around the world is pretty much unprecedented," Cooper said. "In Europe, at a high level there is an understanding that if you want a recovery plan, you want to direct the stimulus to protect ...

Maple-Brown Abbott Global Listed Infrastructure hires ESG analyst

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
... (UNPRI). MBA GLI is majority owned by its co-founders and today manages over AU$5 billion for clients across North America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia Pacific regions, focussing on concentrated portfolios of listed infrastructure securities that ...

Human capital management a signal of overall sustainability: Lazard

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
The way companies are responding to managing their human capital during COVID-19 can be a way of assessing which companies operate sustainably versus those that do not, according to Lazard Asset Management. Nikita Singhal, global co-head of sustainable ...

Can proposed EU recovery plan prove a sustainable model for Australia?

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
... One sees decarbonisation as a growth area in an "otherwise growth-challenged world", there are challenges. "Outside of Europe, the path of environmental policy is difficult to predict at present - most importantly in the US and China - and the uncertain ...

AMP Capital regards long term impacts of COVID-19, climate change

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
... unprecedented opportunities to get better going forward," she said. "There are proposals for green stimulus plans in places like Europe and the US, and that could provide an opportunity with green stocks in the future." "What we see happening around ...