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Aviva Investors puts companies on notice over climate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
... progress based on a qualitative assessment of progress against Aviva Investors' climate engagement framework and quantitative improvements against the firm's proprietary climate transition risk model. Progress will be monitored on a six-monthly basis ...

Integrating climate impacts in quant strategies: Acadian Asset Management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
... Agreements, investors are already seeing impacts on valuations, according to Acadian Asset Management. Acadian is a global quantitative fund manager that integrates environmental, social and governance (ESG) data into its strategies and manages bespoke ...

Northern Trust scores win in Vanguard reversal

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 29 OCT 2020  |  NEWS
... that Vanguard ran for ANZ Investments. n equities, Northern Trust is taking over international equities funds and a quantitative strategy, with an ESG integration strategy and proprietary quality factor screen. The funds are led by Paul Huxford as the ...

PRI recgonises leaders for climate reporting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2020  |  NEWS
... have carbon footprint data in there, frameworks like the Transition Pathways Initiative, but this gives us a more quantitative part of the ratings." This strategy has been applied to clients seeking bespoke mandates as well. "We've had clients who ...

Ardea, UTS partnership to bring AI to fixed income analysis

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... press lately, but the mechanisms are quite simplistic in their nature," Richards noted. "We can look at not just the quantitative aspects of that, or what data do we use to analyse them, there are also a lot of ethical questions around the moral hazards ...

RealIndex appoints former Acadian executive

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 17 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
Systematic equities manager Realindex Investments has hired Joanna Nash to the newly created role of senior quantitative portfolio manager. Nash has 13 years' quantitative investment experience including senior roles at Acadian, where she was a ...

Do founder-led listed companies outperform on E, S and G metrics?

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... with analysts. The role of founder-CEOs has been studied in the past. A 2009 article in the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis by Rudiger Fahlenbrach, who was then a professor at The Ohio State University in the US, found that at the time ...

HSBC, Pollination Group to launch natural capital asset manager

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
HSBC Global Asset Management Limited and Pollination Group Holdings Limited have agreed to create a natural capital manager in a venture to mainstream natural capital as an asset class. HSBC Pollination Climate Asset Management "aims to offer investors ...

BNP Paribas issues $140m in equity-linked green bonds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... environmental changes. It was jointly developed by BNP Paribas with ClimateWorks Australia, ISS ESG and The Centre for Quantitative Finance and Investment Strategies at Monash University. "This type of product is contributing to a two-fold impact," Watanabe ...

Data enhances case for ESG as separate, interrelated factor to quality

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... augment quality signals in strategies. Ian Carmichael, portfolio manager and partner, Fairlight Asset Management Quantitative investment managers have previously told The Sustainability Report that ESG considerations are part of their strategies to manage ...