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VicSuper chooses SSgA for active global equities ESG mandate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
... consultation with their investment adviser, Towers Watson, and with BlackRock Investment Management and index provider Barclays Capital. In July of this year, Local Government Super (LGS) announced it had selected SSgA to manage an AU$780 million Australian ...

Video Panel: Integrating ESG in Fixed Income Investing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
... portfolios; and the potential impact of responsible investment strategies. The panel was sponsored by MSCI ESG Research and Barclays. Moderated by Rachel Alembakis, publisher of The Sustainability Report, the panel featured Bill Hartnett, Local Government ...

SEB, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley top climate bond underwriters

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... Morgan Stanley." Looking beyond the market of bonds that are labelled climate bonds into the unlabelled sphere, Citi, Barclays and HSBC are the leading banks in terms of the number of deals in the climate bond space, according to the Climate Bonds Initiative ...

Mariner Investment Group selects MSCI ESG Research

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... tools like Barra analytics and ESG research and tools that are helping solve today's investment challenges." See Also: Barclays and MSCI launch ESG Fixed Income Indices

Barclays and MSCI launch ESG Fixed Income Indices

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
Barclays and MSCI have launched a range of environmental, social and governance (ESG) fixed income indices based on three categories of strategies. Laura Nishikawa, vice president and head of fixed income ESG research, MSCI ESG Research The Barclays ...

VicSuper integrates governance risk into bond portfolio

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... consultation with their investment adviser, Towers Watson, and with BlackRock Investment Management and index provider Barclays Capital. "We are concerned about sovereign debt," said Ronan Walsh, portfolio manager, fixed income at VicSuper. "Our core ...

Developing methods for monitoring impact investment returns

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... vintage year benchmarks, Cambridge Private Equity Index, LIBOR, MSCI Emerging Markets Indices, Consumer Price Index and Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index. This variety of potential benchmarks is one indication of the level of specialist knowledge needed ...

MSCI expands ESG research to fixed income

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
... research now covers more than 9,000 issuers linked to 260,000 individual securities, and over 90% of the market value of the Barclays Global Aggregate Bond Index. "Fixed income is a major part of investors' holdings across the world and there is a growing ...

Green bonds form basis of new institutional investment funds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... to climate solutions. SSgA's High Quality Green Bond Strategy seeks to approximate the duration of its benchmark, the Barclays Capital U.S. Treasury Index, through investments principally in green bonds issued by MDBs and other debt instruments. SSgA ...
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