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Social premium on the rise: Federated Hermes

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
... companies with poor performance by up to 17 basis points, according to research from Federated Hermes. Federated Hermes' data methodology has shown that outperformance on social factors such as employee health and safety has actually increased during ...

Opinion: Sustainable finance: the new normal in 2021

SIMON O'CONNOR, JACKI JOHNSON  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
... ASX200 companies. A critical part of fulfilling the aforementioned net-zero commitments will be getting access to this climate data, and so we expect ongoing pressure on companies to disclose, a trend that is also increasingly being embedded into regulatory ...

Divestment should be tool of last resort on climate: ACCR

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 1 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
... meaningful comparison between funds, and that's pretty poor," Gocher said. "You'd think standardising and mandating that kind of data reporting would be something simple to do. Most funds aren't reporting it, but you'd be pretty surprised if funds weren't ...

ESG-inclusive commodities set to grow: Xpansiv

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 28 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... support the integration of ESG-inclusive commodities into the broader commodity complex, in terms of derivatives and price data information," said Joe Madden, Xpansiv CEO. Xmarkets enables trading of renewable energy, carbon offsets, water and other ...

Financial institutions at risk from bot attacks: Imperva

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 28 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... on login pages generated by bots, according to a recent report from Imperva, a cybersecurity service provider. Bots scrape data from sites without permission in order to reuse it, and in the case of web crime and fraud, can be used to discover account ...

BlackRock seeks plans for company transition to net zero

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... crises, whether medical or environmental, demand a global and ambitious response." Fink's letter particularly noted that data and disclosure of net zero transition plans is essential, because it allows grater assessment of sustainability risks. To that ...

Seeking financial, positive impact in SME investments: Beckon Capital

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... management of positive social and environmental impacts of businesses in the SME space, a sector of the economy that has less data available. "What we wanted to do was find relatively cheap assets in a space where impact is not well understood and to ...

Translating net zero goals into near-term decisions: Robeco

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... creation and demand destruction will take place, and what policies will be needed to drive that." Robeco is currently analysing data in five sectors in what the fund manager calls the first wave - oil and gas, power, food and agriculture, steel & cement ...

The conundrum of ESG in emerging markets

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... outperform their peers. However, they also present challenges for managers that take ESG into consideration. ESG-related data is improving, but still lags developed markets, opening up both risk and opportunity for investors. Further, the growth story ...

Integrating ESG to manage risks of high yield credit

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... strategies can augment risk analysis, although there are challenges in finding information about private sector issuers. ESG data can be used to analyse holdings both top down and bottom up - to avoid concentrations of individual or collective ESG risks ...