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Five Oceans AM to run Skandia Global Equity Fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
... of the balance sheet, and it could improvements on ESG issues." Five Oceans Asset Management was founded in 2005 and is a UNPRI signatory. The Skandia Global Equity Fund was previously managed by J.P. Morgan Asset Management, according to Scandia.

Q&A with James Gifford, executive director of the UNPRI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
James Gifford is the executive director of the UNPRI. He is currently in Australia and met with The Sustainability Report to talk about PRI's progress, its future plans, the challenges to implementing responsible investment (RI,) and how PRI can assist ...

UNPRI writes letter to UNGC leaders and laggards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
... companies on the issue of increased reporting on environmental, social and governance activities. The investors are all UNPRI signatories and wrote the 118 companies to either express support for their advanced level reporting, or to challenge "laggard" ...

Finsia: ESG consistent with superannuation fiduciary duties

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... paper focuses on ESG investment principles, particularly as formulated under the UN Principles for Responsible Investment (UNPRI). Finsia considers the efficacy of providing a specialist ESG/screened ethical investment option for members versus embedding ...

ESG investment analysis - answering the "so-what" question

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... managers evaluate and integrate ESG criteria will start to play a wider role in manager selection and monitoring. "With UNPRI, superannuation funds are starting to become more stringent on fund managers on what they're doing on ESG, so we would expect ...

Superannuation to heed call for greater disclosure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... on ESG-related topics. It is worth noting that 34 asset owners - including superannuation funds - are signatories to the UNPRI, which calls for voluntary commitments around disclosure and reporting to beneficiaries. Vamos conceded that the sort of asset-holding ...

Perpetual creating dashboard ESG reports

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
As Perpetual finishes its second year as a UNPRI signatory, the investment manager will continue embedding environmental, social and governance (ESG) into its investment considerations, including finalising a dashboard report approach to ESG with their ...

DEXUS profits up, water, energy and GHG intensity down

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... achieved a 15.3% reduction in energy usage across the portfolio. This year, the company integrated the recommendations in the UNPRI, of which DEXUS is a signatory. As part of that, DEXUS developed a "six pillar" strategic stakeholder approach - investors ...

Four Australians up for election to UNPRI council

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
Four Australian signatories to the United Nations-backed Principles for Responsible Investment (UNPRI) are standing for election to the PRI Advisory Council. Frank Pegan, CEO of the AU$4.17bn Catholic Super, Ann Byrne, CEO of the Australian Council ...

Solaris Investment Management appoint ESG analyst

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
... integrate ESG into its investment strategy. Solaris is a style-neutral Australian equities boutique fund manager. The firm, a UNPRI signatory, uses ESG considerations as one of its qualitative analysis factors, said Katherine Youhanna, head of client ...