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Northern Trust develops emerging markets low CO2 fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... Swedish National Pension Fund (AP4) will invest in the Northern Trust Emerging Markets Custom Low Carbon Dioxide Equity Index Fund, which has been designed capture exposure to emerging markets whilst potentially lowering long-term portfolio risk by excluding ...

UN Global Compact designs equities index that outperforms

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
The UN Global Compact has launched an equities index based on companies that have committed to the Global Compact's principles, and found that the index has outperformed general global stock indices. The Global Compact 100 (GC 100) is released in partnership ...

Dow Jones, RobecoSAM issue 2013 DJSI indices

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... Sustainability Indices (DJSI) review. S&P Dow Jones Indices, in collaboration with RobecoSAM, have announced that the DJSI World Index 2013/2014 will have 333 components after 39 additions and 47 deletions. The DJSI were launched in 1999 and track the ...

NAB, Westpac leaders in 2013 CDP Global 500

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... report is co-written by CDP and PwC, based on climate and energy data of 389 companies listed on the FTSE Global 500 Equity Index and collected by CDP at the request of 722 institutional investors representing US$87 trillion in assets under management. ...

Mariner Investment Group selects MSCI ESG Research

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... "We are proud to work with Mariner, a pioneer in ESG integration," said Remy Briand, managing director and head of MSCI Index and ESG Research. "Mariner has indicated that ESG ratings and tools are important criteria to consider in their investment decision-making ...

NYSE joins UN Sustainable Stock Exchanges Initiative

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... global exchange operator to do so. Also in 2012, the company was also named to CDP's S&P 500 Carbon Performance Leadership Index and received a Green Power Leadership Award from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). NYSE Euronext has also been included ...

Local Government Super selects SSgA for equities mandate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... Hartnett said that it is more difficult to use responsible investment strategies with a quantitative approach to the ASX index because of the concentrated nature of the market. He noted, for example, that applying an ESG screen and overlay to the MSCI ...

Impax Asset Management makes case for fossil fuel divestment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
Eliminating the fossil fuel sector from a global benchmark index can yield a small positive return effect with low tracking error, according to analysis by Impax Asset Management. Impax created model equity portfolios structured around fossil fuel divestment ...

HSBC finds US$364 billion in climate themed bond issuance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... climate-themed bonds, representing 79%. Clean energy and climate finance were the next-most common climate-themed bonds. "Applying an index-type filter -credit ratings, currencies eligible on benchmark indices, bonds over US$100 million - shows there ...

Gaps in retailers' labour and human rights policy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
... sourcing and LHR risks for 34 companies in the consumer staples (CS) and consumer discretionary (CD) sectors of the S&P/ASX200 index. The research found that while sourcing is increasingly shifting away from China towards least developed countries (LDCs) ...