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Principles for Responsible Investment hire head of Africa

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 FEB 2015  |  NEWS
... Committee, the CRISA Committee, the Association for Savings and Investment SA (ASISA) Responsible Investment Committee, and the JSE SRI Index Advisory Committee. Bertrand has previously been affiliated with PRI, having spent 18 months as South Africa ...

Demand for responsible investments a call to action: RIAA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 NOV 2014  |  NEWS
... by mainstream, large institutional investors into their investment processes means that the traditional split of an ethical/SRI niche and everyone else is dwindling, O'Connor said. "These issues are focusing the attention on the larger funds as well," ...

Lonsec: responsible investment equity funds outperform

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... review covered seven Australian equity and two global equity funds. Lonsec has recognized the Perpetual Wholesale Ethical SRI Fund with its "Highly Recommended" rating, and five funds were assigned a "recommended" rating. Lonsec rates those funds that ...

Diversity Council Australia measures the bamboo ceiling

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
... Japan, South Korea etc.), South East Asia (Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Vietnam etc.) and South Asia (India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka etc.)." "We note that the term 'Asian' does not reflect the diversity of countries, ethnicities, languages, religions ...

Australian National University Investment Office selects CAER

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
... reports on companies within the ANU portfolio, Waldron said. ANU has a socially responsible investment policy. Part of the SRI policy states "Making investment decisions, the University will aim to: avoid investment opportunities considered to be likely ...

RIAA: Increased public demand for responsible investments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
... investment products. This measures public demand for retail products that are responsible/ethical and what is labelled as SRI. This figure is up to AU$25 billion, or 2.3%, and that is a big step up. It confirms what we've been observing across banking ...

Universe of climate-linked bonds expands to US$502.6bn

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
... talking about both traditional [environmental, social and governance] ESG investors and [socially responsible investment] SRI investors, and also demand from fairly unusual places- central banks are taking up green bonds. Microsoft and Ford have also ...

World Bank issues $300m Australian Kangaroo Green Bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 17 APR 2014  |  NEWS
... years, looking at it on and off. There has been a growing shift in the institutional investor space in Australia towards more SRI mandates. It was the combination of these trends and the increased visibility of issuance offshore that gave us the impetus ...

PRI moving ahead with governance review, disclosure regime

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2014  |  NEWS
... investor because you're considering more risk factors, but for some, it was still about [Socially Responsible Investment] SRI funds and an SRI option. I see Australia as being quite a sophisticated market, but even after all the years we've talking about ...

Northern Trust: investor call for ESG data in private equity

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... extending their ESG analysis to unlisted assets including private equity. "When it comes to [socially responsible investment] SRI investor implications, it often comes down to the headline risk," Finlayson said. "Often, there is the headline risk that ...