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Taskforce recommends government support to build social impact investing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
... goal of establishing better outcomes. Of particular focus is the role government can play in supporting better evidence, data and measurement practices for social impact, and in developing principles to guide the sector and inform best practice and retain ...

BetaShares ethical ETFs surpass $1 billion funds under management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JAN 2020  |  NEWS
... committee that oversees the index companies' performance to ESG criteria. "The committee is there to regularly review the data and determine which stocks are in the index and be able to react in a timely manner, for example to particular ESG related ...

Human rights, ethical sourcing driving ESG considerations in Asia: Ausbil

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2020  |  NEWS
... applies to just a few companies, he said. Carlsson-Sweeney also pointed to Thailand's ban on single-use plastic bags as another data point. In total, it means that companies may be exposed to increased costs and regulation. "This is a general trend for ...

Companies that manage ESG issues "more resilient": Saturna Capital

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2020  |  NEWS
... comes to evaluating companies on environmental factors, Saturna has integrated internal research processes and uses external data providers to augment their analyst work. "We're very cognisant of and we're doing a significant amount of work on carbon ...

Australian execs see impacts of, responsibility for climate change: Deloitte

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 21 JAN 2020  |  NEWS
... officer. "I'm not surprised by it.... We are focused on the technology, and Industry 4.0 are about network, connectivity, data, intelligence and the connectivity of energy. In the last year in particular, we've seen a substantial uptick in the use of ...

Eurozone outperforms North America in ESG investing: Amundi

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2020  |  NEWS
... 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 across five investment universes - MSCI ...

Calculating the shorter, longer-term cost of bushfire

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 JAN 2020  |  NEWS
... RBA." Because most of the research notes coming out this week focus on the immediate impacts of the ongoing bushfire season, data on longer term impacts is not yet available. Neither Oliver at AMP nor UBS have calculated damage to natural capital as ...

ESG data can augment low-volatility quant strategies: Northern Trust

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 JAN 2020  |  NEWS
Environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) data can augment low volatility quantitative strategies and enhance alpha seeking strategies, according to Northern Trust Asset Management. Michael Hunstad, head of quantitative research global equity ...

GRI launches tax reporting standard for comprehensive disclosure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2019  |  NEWS
... Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS), "which requires large multinationals (in OECD countries) to provide country-by-country data to tax administrations," GRI said. The GRI Tax Standard focuses on public reporting - making tax information available to ...

S&P Global to acquire ESG ratings business from RobecoSAM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 NOV 2019  |  NEWS
... existing partnership through the Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI). Robeco and RobecoSAM will continue to use the CSA data for use in investment strategies and will provide advice on the CSA Methodology, S&P Global said. "Through this acquisition ...