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KPMG outlines focus on gender diversity in ASX201-300 company boards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... Building Gender Diversity on ASX 300 Boards: Seven Learnings from the ASX 200. "The ASX top 50 are really influential in this data - they're dragging up the average of the ASX100 and ASX200," said Sarah Cain, a partner at KPMG Enterprise. "The further ...

AustralianSuper names Tom Garcia head of financial crime

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... counter-terrorism financing responsibilities, preventing fraud and other financial crime, as well as business continuity, privacy, data governance and fund resilience. He compares his role, and other heads that are responsible for governance and risk ...

Data enhances case for ESG as separate, interrelated factor to quality

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... ESG considerations are part of their strategies to manage risk and long-term investment performance, and the quality of ESG data and analysis is improving, giving greater confidence of ESG in portfolio management. This correlates with the view from qualitative ...

Aberdeen Standard Investments launches smaller companies fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... believe that ESG factors are financially material and impact corporate performance." ASI uses a combination of third party data providers and internal research to develop its internal scoring on ESG grounds, noted Danielle Welsh-Rose, ESG Investment ...

ESG data enhances value strategies: Maple-Brown Abbott

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
Using environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) data to augment selection of stocks enhances fundamental value strategies, according to Maple-Brown Abbott. Natasha McKean, head of ESG, Maple-Brown Abbott "Companies with strong governance ...

MSCI launches Real Estate Climate Value-at-Risk solution for investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... Zurich. The Climate Risk Center came as part of MSCI's acquisition of Carbon Delta in October 2019. /msci-barra-purchases-data-analytics-firm-carbon-delta/ At the time of acquisition, MSCI noted that the Carbon Delta integration augmented MSCI's climate ...

Insight Investment launches proprietary ESG risk rating system

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
... investment grade indices, Insight Investment said. The rating is a quantitative risk-analysis tool which provides a fresh feed of data into Insight's credit research hub, alongside non-ESG inputs. "We want to identify [ESG] risk," said Joshua Kendall ...

HKEX, SSGA join Climate Bond Initiative Partners Programme

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
... sustainability. Last week,, HKEX announced its plan to launch its new HKEX Sustainable and Green Exchange (STAGE), a first of its kind data and information platform focusing on sustainable and green finance investments in the region, another step in ...

First Sentier Investors launch Modern Slavery Toolkit

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
... risks, escalation, internal governance and reporting. "The first step is identifying risks, through a series of different data sources that investment teams can use to identify risk," Turner said. "It really tries to hammer home the importance of risk ...

Demand for climate aware, ESG investment: State Street Global Advisors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
... management of companies that are underperforming their peer group." State Street Global Advisors' R-Factor integrates multiple data sources and is built utilising the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) materiality framework. The fund manager ...