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Proxy advisers assess impacts of government reform

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 6 JAN 2022  |  NEWS
... reports must be provided to companies. In addition to the benchmark report on each company in the ASX300 that provides proxy voting advice, ISS also provides reports tailored to clients' specific proxy voting policies, which can be on a specific ...

Alphinity highlights sustainability performance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 21 OCT 2021  |  NEWS
... actual risk to the business and how do these different issues fit into the risks." Alphinity provided reporting on its proxy voting and disclosed major shareholdings in the portfolios as well. The fund manager reported that they conducted 76 "tailored ...

Not all oil stocks are out on ESG grounds: Pendal Group

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 12 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
... head of global equities Ashley Pittard. "It's better to be in the tent buying businesses and enacting change via proxy voting than syain we're not going to fund these businesses," Pittard said. "When we look at oil companies, we look at ESG integration ...

Infrastructure to offer opportunity for decarbonisation investment: ClearBridge

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 26 JUL 2021  |  NEWS
... analysis into their research of companies from the bottom up, before allocating, and then continues with engagement and proxy voting. "What we do is run our own scenario analysis on how a particular industry and company may develop over time," Langley ...

Strong fund flows into sustainable products: BT

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUN 2021  |  NEWS
... ones asking how ESG themes are integrated and how managers are considering it, and the benefit of engagement and proxy voting is hitting mainstream as well." "The middle bucket my favourite bucket - they are, I would hazard a guess, younger people who ...

Trustees squeezed by competing climate risk pressures

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAY 2021  |  NEWS
... draft guide for Prudential Practice Guide CPG 229 Climate Change Financial Risks (CPG 229) and legislation to reform proxy voting raised by Treasurer Josh Frydenberg earlier this week. "When [super fund trustees] talk about active ownership, we simply ...

Diversity, human rights, climate change lead agenda: ASI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
... also certainly helps our analysts on their engagement plan for companies around climate change risk and also on the proxy voting part as well."

Using ESG, ethical screens in multi-asset strategy investing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 18 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
... from negative screens because we now hold securities directly rather than outsourcing to other managers, so we have proxy voting," Somaia said. "We use the services of Glass Lewis as advisers for proxy voting, and we moved to the ESG policy in late 2019 ...

ESG part of financial sustainability of infrastructure: ClearBridge

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 18 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
... with company management but also with regulators, policymakers and other key stakeholders as well as using active proxy voting. ClearBridge noted that the advent of hydrogen as a feedstock fuel has also captured ESG attention, with technology being brought ...

ESG investment professional salaries revealed

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
... complexity of investment teams, Kaizen Recruitment said. The roles can range from developing basic ethical screens, and proxy voting through to undertaking in-depth research into companies' current operations and strategy to assess how this may affect ...