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AXA IM launches ESG SmartBeta fund in Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... that [AXA IM Head of Responsible Investment] Matt Christensen has in terms of ESG information in the stocks in the MSCI world index, we were able to build a portfolio that shows much better ESG integration but does not sacrifice dimensions of risk and ...

AXA IM develops impact investing fund of funds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
... portfolio, and according to AXA's research, the ESG SmartBeta portfolio outperformed a "vanilla" SmartBeta portfolio and the MSCI World Index on both overall performance and ESG risk score. The ESG SmartBeta portfolio passed a global equity universe ...

Combining quality measures with ESG can yield higher returns

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 APR 2014  |  NEWS
... Quality Can Enhance Your ESG Strategy, Northern Trust outlines their approach, in which they overlay NTQS onto the MSCI World ESG Index and compare the resulting model portfolio's returns. The paper notes that the MSCI World ESG Index has outperformed ...

ESG integration into quantitative investment management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
... three years super funds are interested in customised solutions and investigating what happens when we take the standard MSCI world index and get rid of a sub-set of ESG risks, such as the ESG red flags in MSCI Impact Monitor - how does that impact on ...

MSCI launches MSCI ESG DataMetrics

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... DataMetrics product." MSCI ESG DataMetrics features 174 metrics on eight cross-industry ESG issues for all companies on the MSCI World Index, including carbon emissions, water stress, labour management, and corporate governance. There is four years of ...

Local Government Super selects SSgA for equities mandate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... because of the concentrated nature of the market. He noted, for example, that applying an ESG screen and overlay to the MSCI World index still leaves a wide investible universe. "What we do in the international equities portfolio, my gut feel is that ...

Impax Asset Management makes case for fossil fuel divestment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... the downside risk of climate change as well as the potential return of renewable energy investments. Impax used the MSCI World Index as the baseline and then presented four alternative approaches to portfolio construction, built around the theory of ...

LGS audit finds ASX has higher carbon, lower ESG risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... Bill Hartnett The audits show that the ASX is more carbon intensive - in terms of CO2 emissions/revenue - than the MSCI World benchmark index, with a score of 297 tonnes versus 243 tonnes, based on the fact that the ASX is heavily exposed to the energy ...

Australian Ethical funds post mixed month for February

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... Equities Trust, which is themed around global smart energy, which saw a gain of 0.6%, underperforming the benchmark MSCI World (AUD) index, which posted gains of 3.2%. "The underperformance reflected a disproportionate impact from our solar stocks which ...

Five Oceans AM to run Skandia Global Equity Fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
... Skandia Global Equity Fund will be managed in a similar manner to the Five Oceans World Fund, which has outperformed the MSCI World Index by over 5% p.a. after fees since inception in 2006, said Ross Youngman, Five Oceans' CEO. "The Five Oceans World ...