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Integrating ESG considerations in securities lending programs

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
... Snowdon, head of capital markets, Asia Pacific at Northern Trust. "The most obvious area of focus on marrying an effective ESG policy with a securities lending program results from the fact that when a security is on loan, the investor loses the right ...

Comment: hindsight is 2020

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
... rising severe weather events will cause an issue for insurance companies. It also warned that drastic and sudden measures by policy makers may de-value coal plants so quickly that this could cause a flow on effects, ie, these assets were subject to huge ...

Small, mid-caps list governance, social as top ESG concerns: Perennial

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
... our approach to ethical sourcing and upholding an ethical supply chain, with an option to select all that apply, "written policy available on company website", "we conduct extensive due diligence in reaction to ethical sourcing before engaging with suppliers" ...

Climate change, human rights risks intertwined: GCNA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JAN 2020  |  NEWS
... and should not be considered in isolation. "What companies are also going to have to ensure is that have a human rights policy, and in that human rights policy consider what the impacts of climate change has on that policy, their supply chain and their ...

Company, investor climate change partnership "essential": Robeco

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JAN 2020  |  NEWS
... sure we're very well prepared and we set objectives that we wish to accomplish," van Lamoen said. We typically set five policy objectives that we want the company to improve on, and we make those objectives as smart and measurable as possible. With oil ...

Analysis: climate change, Australia and the fierce urgency of now

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2020  |  NEWS
... Incremental change is leading us to a 3 degree world, and that is not safe and that is not sensible." ACCR will pursue three policy areas this year related to these issues: ACCR is seeking clear commitments from investors calling on companies to withdraw ...

Eurozone outperforms North America in ESG investing: Amundi

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2020  |  NEWS
Fund manager Amundi has identified a performance divergence between Eurozone and North American equity portfolios that integrate ESG criteria. Amundi recently analysed data from January 2018 to June 2019 to analyse the performance of 1,700 companies ...

Calculating the shorter, longer-term cost of bushfire

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 JAN 2020  |  NEWS
... that loss is attributable to productivity losses due to illnesses related to air quality. Oliver also pointed out that if policy action continues, it could accentuate the decline of some regional communities, "particularly where key industries have been ...

Climate-related policies "inevitable", but likely to be disorderly: IPR

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2019  |  NEWS
... insufficient" actions thus far, the response by 2025 will be "forceful, abrupt and disorderly," according to the Inevitable Policy Response (IPR) project from the PRI. Presented at the PRI / UNEP FI Conference, Towards a Resilient and Sustainable Economy ...

ASFI identifies six critical challenges for sustainable finance roadmap

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2019  |  NEWS
... standards 4. Decision-making and valuation 5. Unlocking sustainable finance and allocating capital to where it is needed 6. Policy, regulation and supervision (source: ASFI) "The two big standout areas are leadership and community, and really flipping ...