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GBST, CAER to offer quantitative ESG data tool

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... aimed at superannuation funds and fund managers. The product can be used as a responsible investment overlay for ASX300 equities, with a set of 12 ESG factors - four environmental, four social, four governance - which can be incorporated into portfolio ...

AMP hires Ross Andrews as ESG research associate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... and global companies held by AMP Capital funds, including global listed property, global listed infrastructure, Asian equities and global resources funds. Andrews will also assist in AMP Capital's ESG analysis of corporate and sovereign bonds and international ...

LGS audit finds ASX has higher carbon, lower ESG risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... Government Super (LGS) has conducted a carbon and ESG audit of its equity portfolios and found that while domestic Australian equities are more carbon intensive, they have a lower ESG risk than international peers. Bill Hartnett The audits show that ...

CFSGAM reports top quartile performance in UNPRI principles

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... asset classes and subclasses, detailing examples of engagement for various teams. ESG analysis was carried out across equities, fixed income, direct property and direct infrastructure, according to the report. Additionally, CFSGCAM has a responsible ...

Australian Ethical funds post mixed month for February

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... Telecom, with a 22% increase and Alchemia with a 40% increase. The biggest underperformer for February was the International Equities Trust, which is themed around global smart energy, which saw a gain of 0.6%, underperforming the benchmark MSCI World ...

RIAA to join in global report on responsible investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 5 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... strategies those investors use, and will make international market comparisons. It will cover all asset classes, from public equities and fixed income to hedge funds and microfinance. ESG investment strategies such as screening, integration and engagement ...

Fund manager: remuneration reports filled with "mumbo jumbo"

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... others that remuneration reports did not aid his understanding of how executives are compensated. Morgan was head of equities at Perpetual form 1994-2002, responsible for AU$12bn in assets under management. He then established and ran 452 Capital from ...

Five Oceans AM to run Skandia Global Equity Fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
... in 2006, said Ross Youngman, Five Oceans' CEO. "The Five Oceans World strategy is a risk managed portfolio of global equities," Youngman said. "We risk manage the portfolios in a number of ways - we don't have to be invested in a traditional sense at ...

Japanese pension plan selects MSCI ESG index as benchmark

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
... than JPY 8tr in assets under management, has set a target range of 7-17% of the total AUM for investment in domestic equities, and part of this allocation will be used for the ESG mandate. The National Federation of Mutual Aid Associations for Municipal ...

AMP Capital, VFMC publish 2011 proxy voting record

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... "We do talk to companies about this quite a bit. The thing for us is that risk is often magnified. We frequently hold equities in all the companies in which that one person appears on all the boards, and the risk is their attention could be diverted. ...