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LUCRF selects Northern Trust for ESG-screened mandate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
Labour Union Co-operative Retirement Fund (LUCRF) has appointed Northern Trust Asset Management's international business to manage an AU$220 million global equity index mandate that incorporates the fund's environmental, social and governance (ESG) ...

Net Balance, Gold Standard report on co-benefits value

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
... mitigation policies will be negligible on global growth at around just 0.06 of a percentage point annually throughout the rest of the century," said Adrian Rimmer, The Gold Standard CEO. "Our study goes one step further, demonstrating that robustly designed ...

BITC index ranks global companies' corporate responsibility

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 APR 2014  |  NEWS
... said. In companies where sustainability engagement permeates to board level, there is greater coordination throughout the rest of the organisation, Dayeh noted. "What you start to see is that the various business units are essentially coordinated, and ...

Investors say non-financials matter in investment decisions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2014  |  NEWS
... investment. The second thing we found most interesting was how important location was. There is a real split between the US and the rest of the world in terms of investors' use of non-financial information. Also, the split between the emerging and developed ...

ESG integration into quantitative investment management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
... the idea is to avoid the portion of the market you think for which the reward versus risk ratio is less attractive than the rest of the market. You don't want to be undercompensated for bearing the risk, and that's the investment piece behind the portfolio. ...

Crowe Horwath: sustainability as competitive advantage

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
... activity, then Argentina, and Mexico are in the next tier, and then there are smatterings of interest by sector around the rest of the continent," de Sousa-Shields said. "We did a study of 600 companies for a major international non-governmental organisation ...

Australian Ethical launches Fixed Interest Trust

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
Australian Ethical Investments has launched the Fixed Interest Trust, comprising Australian dollar-denominated fixed rate investments that meet the Australian Ethical charter. Australian Ethical has managed fixed income securities for 20 years as part ...

Valuing ESG risks, return potential in real assets

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2013  |  NEWS
Infrastructure and urban and agriculture property assets expose investors to both the risks and the opportunities of climate change and other macro-economic challenges. By investing in companies and projects that actively measure and manage the risks ...

Local Government Super property portfolio manager retires

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
Brian Churchill, Local Government Super (LGS)'s property portfolio manager has retired after a 30-year career in property investment and management. Churchill will be replaced by Andrew Kim, who has been LGS property asset manager for the past three ...

RIAA to engage NZ investors on climate change, investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
... Taking the New Zealand Superannuation Fund and other government investing bodies out of the equation, the figures for the rest of the investment management industry are not as rosy, O'Connor noted. "At the top level, it's an impressive story - 40% are ...