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NZ Super Fund releases PRI report, assessment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2015  |  NEWS
... the median score of B. PRI was scored an A for its approaches to manager selection, appointment and monitoring in listed equity, and was also awarded an A for its active ownership of listed equities, based on its engagement and a B for proxy voting. ...

Super boards can add value with ESG focus: BNP Paribas

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2015  |  NEWS
... specialist for risk recording that's going to come out? To me, it mirrors the evolution as funds are going into private equity and infrastructure - it's a whole evolution of the more specialised reporting that gets asked for, and then that become a new ...

Inflection Point Capital Management launches Zero Carbon

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2015  |  NEWS
... managed by LFIP, which also manages close to â,¬1 billion in assets against a line of Strategically Aware Investment (SAI) equity funds covering four geographic regions - Euro, Europe, Emerging Markets, and Global, as well as the newly launched ZC. ...

NZ Super Fund selects Northern Trust for passive mandate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2015  |  NEWS
... Management Northern Trust will manage the passive Barclays Global Aggregate fixed income mandate, adding to the four global equity mandates that the Guardians of New Zealand Superannuation awarded to Northern Trust in 2013. "We are pleased to grow our ...

Regnan reorganises ownership structure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2015  |  NEWS
... Management and Commonwealth Superannuation Corporation now jointly own the firm. The six previous owners included Hermes Equity Ownership Services, Victorian Funds Management Corporation (VFMC), VicSuper, HESTA, and Vanguard Investments Australia. Most ...

Investors, payday lenders engage on lending practices

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2015  |  NEWS
... leases closer to the standards of the consumer credit code." Earlier this year, Credit Suisse's Asia Pacific/Australia Equity Research team authored a report examining various social, regulatory and governance issues relating to ASX-listed payday lending ...

Early stages for ESG-factor investing: Northern Trust

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2015  |  NEWS
... recently. Northern Trust is highlighting the firm's ability to tailor equities products - an approach they called engineered equity - and integrate ESG performance screens as part of their asset management value proposition. By using the Engineered Equity ...

BNP Paribas launches ESG reporting tool

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2015  |  NEWS
... The increased awareness of ESG concerns is manifested by a growing number of asset managers integrating ESG analysis in equity portfolios, Gayer said. As a result, BNP Paribas has been working with clients on both the asset management and the asset ownership ...

ASrIA launches private equity ESG initiative

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2015  |  NEWS
The Association for Sustainable & Responsible Investment in Asia (ASrIA)is launching an initiative to gather private equity managers across the region to discuss opportunities and challenges in considering environmental, social and governance (ESG) ...

GRESB launches real estate debt survey

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2015  |  NEWS
... 2015 GRESB Debt Survey will collect data on real estate debt investments, building on GRESB's work surveying real estate equity vehicles. The GRESB Debt Survey will be open to private real estate funds that "identify their primary investment strategy ...