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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 ...

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 ...