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Climate, worker rights rise up ESG agenda: Perennial

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2020  |  NEWS
... slavery are the two most important areas of ESG focus for Australian listed companies in the near future, according to new research from Perennial Value Management. Perennial has released the results of its second annual Sustainable Future Survey, which ...

PRI executive appointed to European Platform on Sustainable Finance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 1 OCT 2020  |  NEWS
... Finance (TEG) and he has fifteen years of professional experience in sustainable finance in government policy, investment research and ratings on companies, and the development of investment processes and tools. The platform will reach out to a wide ...

Investors to develop tool to measure biodiversity impacts

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... the world who have signed the statement. The statement demonstrates that there is currently an unmet demand for quality research to assist investors in responding to the biodiversity crisis. The consortium have selected Iceberg Data Lab and I Care & ...

Head of sustainability salaries revealed

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... average salary for a head of sustainability role in tops $300,000, with women earning slightly more than men, according to research from specialist recruitment agency Talent Nation. Talent Nation collected information from over 200 companies in Australia ...

Northern Trust outlines social, environmental challenges to road ahead

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... where we set and determine our strategic asset allocation," Sturkenboom said. "In the institutional world, it's used as a research publication, where we lay our views on the table... In the wealth management world, this has a bigger implication. We set ...

ESG scores linked to higher stock valuation: Bank of America

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... return on equity, lower earnings volatility and lower share price volatility, according to Sameer Chopra, head of Asia ESG research at Bank of America in a recent presentation. This has led to the gap in valuation between the highest- and lowest-rated ...

Opinion: Australian super funds could benefit from US ESG policy move

RAEWYN WILLIAMS  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... example, in May 2020, a MIT Sloan paper calculated that the degree of correlation (consensus) between five global ESG research firms' ranking of large companies on ESG matters was a mere 0.54 (with 1 representing perfect correlation) compared with a ...

Climate change to bring more frequent, intense weather: IAG

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... Severe Weather in a Changing Climate report, created in conjunction with the US-based National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). The updated report incorporates new research and feedback from the scientific community and reinforces the predictions ...

Ardea, UTS partnership to bring AI to fixed income analysis

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
Fixed income specialist Ardea Investment Management has launched a new research partnership with the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) that will apply machine learning to areas including climate change and government bond investing. The Ardea + ...

IIG launches alternative fund-of funds impact strategy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... Development Goals, Madhavan added. Impact investing as a subsector of the market has continued to grow - according to recent research from the Responsible Investment Association of Australasia, impact investment products in the market currently stand ...