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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) ...

Barclays and MSCI launch ESG Fixed Income Indices

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
... indices is really focused on negative exclusion," Nishikawa said. "Whether it's the Barclays Global Aggregate or the EU Credit index, you're looking at a standard mix of exclusions. That list of exclusions was built to match the equity indices as well. ...

Australia ranked fourth on global renewable energy list

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... country for investment in renewable energy projects, according to Ernst & Young's Renewable Energy Country Attractiveness Index (RECAI). Global annual clean energy investment hit US$269 billion in 2012, a five-fold increase from 2004, influenced by energy ...

Ethinvest model portfolios outperform wider ASX indices

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... accumulation indices by wide margins, Ethinvest said. Trevor Thomas, Ethinvest managing director The Ethinvest ASX50 Screened Index Model has returned 39.76% for the 12 months to the end of March 2013, ahead of the S&P/ASX50 Accunmuation Index's 23.11% ...