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Treasurers cite positive impact in green bonds: Climate Bonds Initiative

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2020  |  NEWS
... US$7.4 trillion in bonds outstanding, including US$222 billion of green bonds and collectively 686 green bonds at the time of data collection. Nearly all - 98% - of respondents said that their green bond attracted new investors. The most frequently stated ...

Morningstar acquires outstanding majority of Sustainalytics

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2020  |  NEWS
... occur early in the third quarter of 2020, Morningstar said. "Modern investors in public and private markets are demanding ESG data, research, ratings, and solutions in order to make informed, meaningful investing decisions," said Kunal Kapoor, Morningstar ...

Property Council of Australia develops platform for modern slavery data

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2020  |  NEWS
... process of communicating to the common suppliers for the participating companies, as well as the collection and collation of data was a learning process, Bernhardt said. "The primary learning was a.) we have to also advise the suppliers why they're filling ...

Coronavirus pandemic produces supply chain crisis: Baker McKenzie

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2020  |  NEWS
... sector will see a 19% drop in output for H1 2020 while electronics will see a 17% drop in output, all relative to Q4 2019 data. Textiles sees a 14% drop in H1 2020 as well as headline manufacturing (11%) and aerospace (6%)," according to the report. ...

Modern slavery, climate risk key elements of RI activity: First Sentier

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2020  |  NEWS
... see how we can heatmap where the modern slavery risk lies with the portfolio," she said. "We are using number of different data sources- country level vulnerability, prevalence of modern slavery at the sectoral level, in commodities, importing and supply ...

Climate risk assessment impacts on small, mid-cap portfolios: Fairlight AM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2020  |  NEWS
... viewed as a riskier asset class. While disclosure was once the domain of larger companies, we are progressively seeing better data become available across the board, which is largely a consequence of increasing investor focus on ESG issues. The finance ...

Questions raised over governance implications of share buyback schemes

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 APR 2020  |  NEWS
... held multi-national companies." As MSCI updates its research on the US to reflect the activity of the past two years, the data raises questions about the extent to which the US market bull run was influenced and extended by share buyback activity, Marshall ...

ANZ companies report board level climate oversight, more needed: CDP

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 APR 2020  |  NEWS
... Zealand are doing really well relatively speaking, but there is, as with most cases, room for improvement when we look at the data, and at how many of the companies report absolute reductions or increase in emissions, which at the end of the day is what ...

ESG indices, products faring relatively better in coronavirus response

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2020  |  NEWS
... global economy, indices and products that integrate ESG ratings have performed relatively better than mainstream benchmarks. (data courtesy BetaShares) Exchange traded funds (ETFs) with ethical screens are showing similar trajectory. BetaShares' ethical ...

Forum360 highlights case for virtual shopping for fund managers

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2020  |  NEWS
... latent, after the fact. We wanted to focus on helping companies better measure their performance, and this comes from a unique data thread that measures what occurs in the meeting." These analytics come from anonymised data, and allows companies to test ...