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Investing for positive environment impact, financial return: First Sentier

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
... pipeline, it sits with the consumer of oil i.e. the transportation sector. If you take a narrow focus, you miss things." Engagement is central to the process of determining information, she said. "This is why we have sector specialists" she said. "We ...

Frasers Property Australia establishes Sustainable Finance Framework

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
... but leveraging the strength of our sustainability focus." Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu performed a reasonable assurance engagement in accordance with ASAE 3000 and has confirmed that the Framework has been properly prepared, in all material respects, in ...

Small, mid-caps list governance, social as top ESG concerns: Perennial

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
... the portfolio management process in its Perennial Smaller Companies Sustainable Future Trust. Perennial sees direct engagement as a particularly useful tool for assessing smaller companies on ESG criteria. The survey found that even though greenhouse ...

Amundi reports increased demand for fixed income ETFs, ESG integration

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
... on exclusion, which means that the ETF provider is going to... exclude a range of stocks. The other approach is more engagement, which means that we don't exclude, but you're going to reweight the index according to the biz model of the company, and ...

Company, investor climate change partnership "essential": Robeco

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JAN 2020  |  NEWS
... of active ownership, Robeco Carola van Lamoen, head of active ownership at Robeco, recently outlined the approach to engagement, and how they benchmark their own process of engagement with companies. "Investors worldwide have joined forces to engage ...

SSGA to vote against ASX100, global ESG laggards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2020  |  NEWS
... to see how they're overseeing and addressing material ESG issues, and if they are clear laggards and unresponsive to engagement, we will be voting against a director," Colton said. "We are also putting the underperformers on watch and will start engaging ...

Analysis: climate change, Australia and the fierce urgency of now

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2020  |  NEWS
... act in the best interest of members, which can dictate the pace and outcome of decisions and may result in continued engagement, rather than divestment. "The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has made it clear that super funds must consider ...

Local Government Super appoints Claudia Bels as board director

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2020  |  NEWS
... experience in strategic leadership across a range of diverse issues including corporate turnarounds, cultural change and engagement with regulators." Bels joins recently appointed independent Chair, Kyle Loades, independent Director, Sandi Orleow, and ...

BlackRock joins Climate Action 100+ investor initiative

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 JAN 2020  |  NEWS
... "BlackRock is one of the largest and most influential asset managers in the world and will bring even more heft to investor engagement through Climate Action 100+," said Emily Chew, Climate Action 100+ Steering Committee chair and global head of ESG ...

Superannuation funds that invest responsibly outperform: RIAA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2019  |  NEWS
... a large uptick in the amount of disclosure around responsible investment, but O'Connor points out that reporting on engagement outcomes is still low. "We're an industry still grappling with how to do that effectively, well, and in a way that doesn't ...