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MSCI launches MSCI ESG DataMetrics

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... product." MSCI ESG DataMetrics features 174 metrics on eight cross-industry ESG issues for all companies on the MSCI World Index, including carbon emissions, water stress, labour management, and corporate governance. There is four years of raw data ...

Local Government Super selects SSgA for equities mandate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... the concentrated nature of the market. He noted, for example, that applying an ESG screen and overlay to the MSCI World index still leaves a wide investible universe. "What we do in the international equities portfolio, my gut feel is that that ESG is ...

Impax Asset Management makes case for fossil fuel divestment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... downside risk of climate change as well as the potential return of renewable energy investments. Impax used the MSCI World Index as the baseline and then presented four alternative approaches to portfolio construction, built around the theory of fossil ...

LGS audit finds ASX has higher carbon, lower ESG risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... course, but you could generally say that ASX is more carbon intensive, but a lower overall risk scoring than MSCI World index." The audit showed that LGS's Australian share portfolio's carbon footprint was 285.8 tonnes, against a benchmark of 297.6 tonnes ...

Five Oceans AM to run Skandia Global Equity Fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
... Global Equity Fund will be managed in a similar manner to the Five Oceans World Fund, which has outperformed the MSCI World Index by over 5% p.a. after fees since inception in 2006, said Ross Youngman, Five Oceans' CEO. "The Five Oceans World strategy ...

Integrating ESG to enhance quantitative-style investment analysis

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
... industry reports with ratings on over 1,800 global companies, including approximately 96% of the market cap of the MSCI World Index. "MSCI ESG IVA stands out for both the breadth of its coverage and the depth of its analysis," Fryer said. "We look at ...
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