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SSGA launches State Street Low Carbon ESG International Equities Index Trust

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2018  |  NEWS
... emissions and reserves intensity by half, and targets a 20% improvement in the overall ESG profile, compared with the MSCI World ex Australia index. "We worked with MSC to create this index because clients wanted something that went further down the ...

UCA Funds Management hires Mathew Browning as new CEO

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 DEC 2017  |  NEWS
... focused on global healthcare equities targeting both wholesale and retail investors. The fund doubled the return of the MSCI World Health Care Index over four years. "It is a great privilege to have been selected to lead UCA Funds Management in the new ...

SSGA Global Index Plus Trust to exclude tobacco, controversial weapons

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 SEP 2017  |  NEWS
... invests in global companies and seeks an investment return that modestly exceeds, before expenses, the performance of the MSCI World ex-Australia Index over the long term. "The impetus in Australia has certainly come from what we've seen in our institutional ...

Parametric explores integration of responsible investing in peer-constrained world

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUL 2017  |  NEWS
... outcomes. "For example, consider the impact of a tobacco and controversial weapons screen on a superannuation fund with a MSCI world ex-Australia equity portfolio," the paper said. "In this portfolio over the past five years, this screen had a very small ...

Sustainable Development Goals present "enormous opportunity" for business

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 13 APR 2017  |  NEWS
... Australia's approach regarding the SDGs. MSCI recently released a report showing that Australian listed companies in the MSCI World Index derive less of their revenue from activities related to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) than their peers ...

MSCI benchmarks Australian companies against SDG revenue generation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 FEB 2017  |  NEWS
Australian listed companies in the MSCI World Index derive less of their revenue from activities related to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) than their peers in the rest of the index, according to MSCI. Morgan Ellis, senior associate, ESG ...

SSGA launches tobacco, controversial weapons-free global equities fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2016  |  NEWS
... investment, with Medibank Private providing AU$170 million of seed capital. The index tracks the performance of the MSCI World Ex Australia ex Tobacco ex Controversial Weapons Index. It excludes more than 10 companies in its parent index, the MSCI World ...

Early stages for ESG-factor investing: Northern Trust

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2015  |  NEWS
... Trust said in the paper. " Over an analysis period of slightly more than four years, our solution outperformed the MSCI World index by over 2% per year while realizing modest tracking error and significantly reducing the carbon footprint. " Northern ...

Role for custodian in ESG data analytics: BNP Paribas

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 NOV 2014  |  NEWS
... what's coming out. We can also provide data analytics around benchmarks - what are the exposures on the ASX200, the MSCI World Index, etc." Economic trends and developments are influencing the policies and decisions for institutional investors, Gayer ...

oekom research: ESG ratings improve bond performance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... Portfolio Large Caps (PPLC) - large companies rated best-in-class from a sustainability point of view - to the wider MSCI World Total Return Index for the peiord of January 2005 through December 2013. The PPLC weighted by market capitalisation achieved ...

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Santos receives takeover offer from Abu Dhabi-led consortium

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Santos has received a non-binding $8.89 per share cash offer from the XRG Consortium, led by XRG P.J.S.C., a subsidiary of Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ANDOC), alongside Abu Dhabi's sovereign wealth fund ADQ and US private equity firm Carlyle.

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Funding lifts for climate, health, people startups

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While funding for impact startups has broadly declined, those operating in climate, health and people has seen funding levels improve compared to three years ago, according to the Impact Startups Benchmark Report 2025.

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