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World Bank issues $300m Australian Kangaroo Green Bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 17 APR 2014  |  NEWS
... and piece together the interest to provide a broader transaction that suited the needs of all investors and gave it benchmark status," Goddard said. "Because it's a benchmark deal, it gives the market a reference point to develop further." Because the ...

BITC index ranks global companies' corporate responsibility

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 APR 2014  |  NEWS
... ranks 98 companies that submitted themselves for evaluation on their corporate responsibility, allowing businesses to benchmark against competitors and communicate progress to stakeholders. This year, Net Balance has partnered with BITC to manage the ...

Combining quality measures with ESG can yield higher returns

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 APR 2014  |  NEWS
Incorporating a quality factor overlay into a portfolio that integrates environmental, social and governance (ESG) metrics can add "significant excess return" to ESG portfolios, according to Northern Trust. Michael Hunstad, head of quantitative research ...

Investors say non-financials matter in investment decisions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2014  |  NEWS
... according to EY. EY's report, Tomorrow's investment rules, found that investors are using non-financial performance as a benchmark for risk. However, the report found there there is a wide variation in how investors evaluate non-financial disclosures ...

GRESB launches 2014 survey

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2014  |  NEWS
The Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark (GRESB) has launched is 2014 survey, its fifth year of operation. In 2013, 550 property companies and funds, managing US$1.6 trillion in value, participated in the GRESB survey. The Global Real Estate ...

ESG integration into quantitative investment management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
... strategies, rather than purely passive index construction mandates, although research provides such as MSCI have developed benchmark indices to permit passive portfolio construction. Recently, the AU$11.5 billion VicSuper selected State Street Global ...

Ethical Investment Advisers launches fossil-fuel free SMA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
... Cap Portfolio is 1.14% model manager and administration fee, she said. The Ethical Investment Advisers Mid-Cap SMA's benchmark is the S&P/ASX Mid-Cap 50, and has returned 2.37% since inception, compared with the All Ordinaries Index which gained 0.56% ...

Australian Ethical launches Fixed Interest Trust

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
... the benefit of that is especially for advisers who create their own asset allocation and their own funds." The trust's benchmark is the UBS Composite Bond Index, and the largest single component is a portfolio of Commonwealth government bonds, representing ...

350.org Australia issues ASX200 fossil fuel divestment study

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
... ran models of the impact on a listed equities portfolio if tiers 1 and 2 were eliminated, as compared with the ASX200 benchmark. According to the report, eliminating Tiers 1 and 2 produced a simulated portfolio with a beta of 0.99 versus at beta of 1.0 ...

Call for EUA inclusion in Emissions Reduction Fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2014  |  NEWS
... ERF - the development of an ERF method based on EUA legislation. Further, SMF said the government has to disclose a benchmark price for price discovery, and to incentivise business participation. The ERF has to provide "deeming" of emissions reductions ...