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Early stages for ESG-factor investing: Northern Trust

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2015  |  NEWS
... with The Sustainability Report while in Australia recently. Northern Trust is highlighting the firm's ability to tailor equities products - an approach they called engineered equity - and integrate ESG performance screens as part of their asset management ...

Climate change impacts on investments "inevitable": Mercer

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2015  |  NEWS
... depending on the climate change scenario. Mercer notes that a 2C scenario could see return benefits for emerging market equities, infrastructure, real estate, timber and agriculture. Under a 4C scenario, there could be negatively impacts on emerging ...

CFSGAM reports on transparency, stewardship of assets

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2015  |  NEWS
... of ESG information. During 2014, the fund manager integrated Sustainalytics and GMI Ratings data with the Australian Equities Growth team's proprietary database and with Bloomberg, making that information available to all Bloomberg users within the group. ...

Investors integrating ESG in quant portfolios: Northern Trust

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2015  |  NEWS
... established an asset management sales and client servicing team in Australia, and is highlighting the firm's ability to tailor equities products with environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance screens. Northern Trust had previously told The ...

Northern Trust opens Australia/NZ asset management office

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2015  |  NEWS
... established an asset management sales and client servicing team in Australia, and is highlighting the firm's ability to tailor equities products with environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance screens. Steve Potter, president of Northern ...

Inflection Point CM to launch Carbon Zero fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
Inflection Point Capital Management will launch a Carbon Zero Global Equities long-only hedge fund in May. Matthew Kiernan, founder and chief executive, Inflection Point Capital Management The Carbon Zero Global Equities Fund will incorporate Inflection ...

AXA IM ESG SmartBeta fund 5% stronger than benchmark

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
... Rosenberg's SmartBeta quantitative strategy, which improves sharpe ratios and maximises risk-adjusted returns by eliminating equities that have "unappealing earnings profiles" and high volatility, and overlays it with environmental, social and governance ...

AMP Capital to advise GII on renewable infrastructure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
... pension plans seeking investments that provide stable cash flow and low correlation to traditional asset classes such as equities. "AMP Capital has a long history of investing in infrastructure and we are pleased to have them on this opportunity as advisers ...

VFMC to divest from tobacco holdings

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2015  |  NEWS
... billion state-owned funds manager for a number of public authorities and bodies. Divestment in tobacco manufacturers equities should be finalised by 30 June 2015, the fund said. "The issue of tobacco exposure has been under review by the VFMC board since ...

Australian Ethical surpasses $1 billion AUM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JAN 2015  |  NEWS
... investment performances are regularly in the top quartile of the Mercer tables." Vernon also noted that AEI's International Equities Trust received the award for best international fund at the prestigious Australian Fund Manager Awards. "From an investment ...