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Integrating impact investing in listed equity portfolios

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... desire to contribute to measurable social and environmental benefits. Further practices include use of evidence and impact data in investment design, the management of impact performance, or the specific intention to manage investments to that intention ...

Australia on global list for deforestation hotspots: WWF

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 14 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... law," Taylor said. "Queensland is good at enforcing the law because they have a system where they're looking at satellite data and seeing if anyone is clearing without a permit.... Why isn't the commonwealth government doing this on a federal level when ...

ESG funds show strong risk-adjusted returns: Rainmaker

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 14 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... product." It is difficult to determine precisely how ESG integration impacts on risk-adjusted returns, but Alcock noted that as data sources evolve and improve, ability to attribute is expected to grow over time. "ESG should be a priority area of assessment ...

SSGA to use proxy vote over ethnic, racial diversity

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... correlated to higher growth, higher innovation, and thinking about risk from different perspectives," he said. Gathering data on companies' diversity policies and implementation, how human capital is managed more broadly, and the demographic makeup ...

Tech platform to assist ASX companies in ESG reporting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 7 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... Resources Limited (ASX:MNB), Myfiziq (ASX:MYQ), and Whitehawk (ASX:WHK). These six companies are collecting their internal data to these metrics and will report that information using Socialsuite's platform. The WEF released its Global Standard Metrics ...

Water, water risk everywhere: DWS

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 7 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... remedies, and the interpretation of risks and responsibilities. Water falls under that category. "The initial problem is data," Lewis said. "We have spent a huge amount of time and resources trying to figure out what's out there. We started in 2007 ...

CSC partners with Osmosis IM on sustainable strategy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 22 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
... better risk-adjusted return. Osmosis uses its in-house research process to standardise unstructured corporate environmental data, enabling the construction of a sustainable investment factor which the firm identifies as being uncorrelated to other common ...

Robeco launches SDG-linked credit income fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
... overall portfolio, Keller said. "The first SDG strategy that we launched was two and a half years ago, so we do have live data on the performance," he said. "This COVID year has provided an interesting test case. What we have seen is that there is a ...

DWS to use advisory board to accelerate ESG activity

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
... change are not "nice to haves", but rather essential considerations of financial materiality, she said. "We have a specific data tool that we call our ESG Engine, which takes data from multiple data providers," Kuijpers said. "When we started thinking ...

Risk management to grow in importance: Governance Institute

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
... the box thinking will be required to be effective, as well as communications and stakeholder engagement skills (80%) then data analytics skills (70%). "Interestingly, it's a phenomenon that's pervaded our previous thought leadership report," Motto said. ...