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Valuing environmental services as source of risk and return

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... industry will suffer severe loss as a result of the destruction of coral reefs. The dive industry in the Caribbean and South Asia has increasingly seen the impact on its revenues." The agri-food industry in particular is vulnerable to changes in ecosystems ...

Emerging listed miners catching up on corporate governance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... working to catch up with investor expectations on corporate governance and disclosure standards, according to BlackRock's Asia Pacific head of corporate governance and responsible investment. Pru Bennett Pru Bennett, director and head of corporate governance ...

Investors conducting climate change risk assessments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... and they also haven't set the expectations highly of their managers," said Helga Birgden, head of responsible investment, Asia-Pacific at Mercer. "One of the other things is that it's a good story for investment managers on the climate change side, but ...

Most Asia Pacific private equity investors monitor ESG

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
The majority of Asia-Pacific investors in private equity monitor, or expect to monitor, general partners' environmental, social and governance (ESG) policies, in contrast to 70% of European investors and 27% of North American investors, according to ...

CFSGAM hires Pablo Berrutti as responsible investment head

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
Pablo Berrutti has been hired as Colonial First State Global Asset Management's head of responsible investment Asia Pacific, while Amanda McCluskey has moved to a new role with the company in Singapore. Pablo Berrutti Berrutti comes to Colonial First ...

Mercer: green bonds deserve investment consideration

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... is that there needs to be much more traction and momentum," said Helga Birgden, Mercer's head of responsible investment in Asia Pacific. "The supranationals are pushing them, but governments need to push them as well. There also needs to be a lot more ...

Investor Profile: Five Oceans Asset Management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... was something we were doing well before UNPRI came along. Q: I'm particularly interested in how you integrate ESG into your Asia portfolios - can you describe how you generate your research into those markets and to what extent/how is ESG weighted? RY ...

Investor Profile: Omega Global Investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... M Mc: That's exactly it. Often a lot of these [emerging economy] governments have governance issues, and particularly in Asia. An example of that is Indonesia. Indonesia looks great economically, but there are a lot of governance issues there which should ...

AMP Capital fund buys stake in Indian clean energy company

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... diversification, positioning it as a leading renewable energy company in India, said Anoop Seth, AMP Capital's head of infrastructure Asia. The fact that SGEL's power generation assets are based on renewable sources was a factor that played into AMP ...

LGS ESG sovereign debt strategy includes green bond tilt

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... and heavily underweight the US and Japan," Hartnett said. "This mandate is primarily developed countries. It is underweight Asia because the research isn't there. Some of the research on emerging countries isn't that good." Currently, green bonds make ...