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Collaboration a competitive advantage for super on ESG: NGS Super

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
... adding to the transparency side of things as of mid-2019." NGS Super has also moved to provide live disclosure of proxy voting as well as mapping their equities portfolio against the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), King said. "That was a really ...

Increased integration of ESG in securities lending: State Street Associates

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
... owners had structured lending programs to be able to recall lent securities so that they are able to exercise their proxy voting rights as examples in which ESG had been integrated into securities lending. The report also looked at impacts of short selling ...

Coronavirus forcing companies to virtual AGMs, full proxy voting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 APR 2020  |  NEWS
... result of the coronavirus pandemic. As a result, companies are moving towards hybrid virtual AGMs and relying on proxy voting in place of live voting in person. Megan Motto, Governance Institute CEO Santos will have a virtual AGM, with their meeting ...

UN GCNA appoints Pru Bennett to board of directors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 APR 2020  |  NEWS
... stewardship team for the APAC region based in Hong Kong. In this role she led the team responsible for engagement and proxy voting activities. Most recently Bennett has been a senior advisor to the Brunswick Group in Hong Kong and in Australia she is ...

Industry coalition organises Principles for Sustainable Securities Lending

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2020  |  NEWS
... commonly accepted principle - many beneficial owners have policies in place to recall stocks for the purposes of proxy voting. The principles also covers areas such as collateral and whether ESG screens and policy extends to the type of collateral held ...

Integrating ESG considerations in securities lending programs

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
... securities lending programs, usually through custodians, and those programs are tailored to considerations such as proxy voting, to recall securities in time to participate in AGM votes and other corporate actions. "It is important to understand how ...

BetaShares ethical ETFs surpass $1 billion funds under management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JAN 2020  |  NEWS
... responsibility." BetaShares also actively engages with companies in the ethical portfolios. "For example, we are proxy voting in a way that is aligned with the methodology of our index, and they're all published on the website," Israelstam said. "We ...

Integrating ESG essential to infrastructure portfolio: First Sentier Investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2019  |  NEWS
... 100% of the asset. We have 14 assets in Europe, and 8 of them we own 100%. When you own direct, you're not doing proxy voting, you're setting the strategy with the management team." Part of that strategy-setting encompasses ESG issues. First Sentier ...

Man Group launches proprietary ESG analytics tool for portfolios

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUL 2019  |  NEWS
... issuers, portfolios and indices and also features stewardship data, offering a real-time overview of a portfolio's proxy voting performance and statistics. "The genesis of the project was to develop a tool we could use consistently across all of the ...

Institutional Shareholder Services purchases CAER

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2019  |  NEWS
... product line-up, and a great team and we know that they've been doing great work in Australia on the governance and proxy voting side," Paterson said. "We felt that it would be quite a good fit from a values perspective and we were very happy to take ...