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HESTA allocates $200m to healthcare property mandate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 OCT 2019  |  NEWS
... co-ownership, and capital partnering on brownfield developentse or greenfield asset expansion, Sawtell-Rickson said. "We're a long-horizon, patient investor so we're very aligned with HACS organisations that are similarly wanting to make very long-term ...

Quantitative managers test ESG data as stand-alone factor in strategies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 OCT 2019  |  NEWS
... few more years to unravel." However, Huang of BlackRock also pointed out that because ESG tends to focus on long time horizon issues, the concerns over performance over shorter term economic cycles may not be disqualifying. "Given the macro environment ...

Climate change, ageing population to cause twin impacts: Actuaries Institute

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2019  |  NEWS
... Dr Meyricke said. "This is a long term risk. When you're saving for superannuation and retirement, you have a long horizon, so climate change has a material impact on long term savings.what we do si review the research to quantify that impact." The ...

MSCI creates Climate Change Indexes tilted to low carbon transition

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUN 2019  |  NEWS
MSCI has created a new set of Climate Change Indexes designed to "help investors navigate and measure the investment opportunities and risks associated with the transition to a low carbon economy." The new MSCI Climate Change Indexes re-weight securities ...

Sustainable Melbourne Fund receives new loan facility, new name

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2019  |  NEWS
... also in terms of deal size, market expansion, and Bocskay sees the potential for securitisation of existing loans on the horizon. "We expect securitisation around the $75 to $100 million mark in EUF deals, and with such a good quality asset underpinning ...

Majority of Asia-Pacific investors expect to integrate ESG: BNP Paribas

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 18 APR 2019  |  NEWS
The majority of investors in the Asia Pacific region are aligning their ESG investment framework with the UN Sustainable Development Goals, according to a new BNP Paribas survey. Madhu Gayer, investment analytics and sustainability manager, BNP Paribas ...

Climate risk necessitates short and long term stress testing: Mercer

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2019  |  NEWS
... something for investors to look to the near-term, and to emphasise that climate change is not just a long term that's over the horizon issue, but also has short term impacts within a year's timeframe. It's bringing climate change in as a short term risk ...

Investec Asset Management launches Global Environment Strategy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2019  |  NEWS
... impact. We're running it with high conviction. It's a 25 stock portfolio at the moment, managed with a five-year plus horizon, and the importance of that is engagement and impact and transparency right at the top." The strategy seeks to invest in companies ...

Giant Leap venture capital fund seeks impact businesses for investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2018  |  NEWS
... business that can generate 10x our investment as they scale, and generate outsized impact." The fund has a 10 year time horizon, and looking to the future, Giant Leap will seek to raise a second round of venture capital funds of $15 million, Richardson ...

Investors, credit ratings agencies grapple with ESG impacts on ratings: PRI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUN 2018  |  NEWS
... dialogues between investors and CRAs, concludes that participants agree "there is no silver bullet to identify the right time horizon over which to assess ESG factors in credit risk analysis." The "multi-dimensional nature of ESG factors, difficulties ...