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Integrating ESG into securitised asset strategies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 SEP 2021  |  NEWS
... sustainability characteristics of the underlying loans or assets, combined with the current lack of sufficient and granular ESG data for these underlying investments, said Navindu Katugampola, global head of sustainability, global fixed income team at ...

Analysing the opportunities, challenges of the ESG investing sector

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 SEP 2021  |  NEWS
... of corporates that you're going to invest in. There's a whole bunch of language to understand and a whole lot of data that needs to be generated and understood, and converted into value by the asset managers." The ESG investing industry is growing ...

"Dismal" stats for women in ASX leadership roles

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 SEP 2021  |  NEWS
... Mostyn said. This year's survey extended beyond the ASX200 to include ASX300 companies, CEW noted. However, ASX200 trend data shows the percentage of women CEOs in the ASX200 is the same as it was when the Census began five years ago in 2017 (5%). Women ...

Asset consultants keep gates closed on greenwashing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 2 SEP 2021  |  NEWS
... Report 2020 on page 90, DWS labeled strategies as "ESG Integrated" if they were actively managed and included coverage of ESG data (the overall SynRating) on more than 90% of the portfolio," DWS said. "ESG Integrated AuM" were not counted towards the ...

Using the SDGs to develop sustainable investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 2 SEP 2021  |  NEWS
... speaking at the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees 2021 Conference. While imperfect, environmental and social data from companies improving, Kell said. The lack of perfect data is not a barrier to action on sustainable investment, said APG ...

Advisers integrating positive impact into investment choices

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 2 SEP 2021  |  NEWS
... Pacific are ahead of global counterparts in integrating impact into investment considerations. According to bfinance's data, 18% of wealth managers globally say they integrate impact, while 24% of APAC wealth managers do so. APAC wealth managers ...

Reflection on 10 years of climate action: ISS ESG

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 30 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
... strategies that companies put in place - have they set themselves targets, are they changing the product portfolio? They're data points that you can access, they're more widely available, they can be used together with greenhouse gas emissions ...

ASX companies not disclosing labour hire risks: ACCR

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
... companies define and describe their labour hire and contracted workforce; and while all companies report some health and safety data, many fail to disaggregate this data for their indirect workforce, the report found. The report focuses broadly on what ...

Greenwashing a challenge to sustainable investing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 26 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
... social impacts and externalities." The tool will allow Schroders to measure a company's impact across 70 categories of data, and has also been extended to cover sovereign bonds. SustainEx will provide Schroders with "that forward looking approach ...

Supermarket giant inks $1.3bn sustainability-linked loan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 26 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
... loan," said ANZ director - sustainable finance Tania Smith. "We then worked with the Coles team to understand the historic data for those metrics, looking at peer comparisons, and the science Coles have some pretty ambitious targets in the public domain ...