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PRI moving ahead with governance review, disclosure regime

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2014  |  NEWS
... investor because you're considering more risk factors, but for some, it was still about [Socially Responsible Investment] SRI funds and an SRI option. I see Australia as being quite a sophisticated market, but even after all the years we've talking about ...

Northern Trust: investor call for ESG data in private equity

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... extending their ESG analysis to unlisted assets including private equity. "When it comes to [socially responsible investment] SRI investor implications, it often comes down to the headline risk," Finlayson said. "Often, there is the headline risk that ...

Standard Life hires Amanda Young as head of SRI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
Standard Life Investments has appointed Amanda Young as Head of Sustainable and Responsible Investment (SRI). Young comes to Standard Life Investments from Newton Investment Management. She is also a main board director of the UK Sustainable Investment ...

NGS Super to launch stand-along SRI fund option

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
NGS Super is designing a stand-along socially responsible investment (SRI) option for members that will be launched later this year. This is not the fund's first attempt at a stand-alone ethical investment option. NGS Super has had a Green Shares option ...

Local Government Super selects SSgA for equities mandate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... threshold that screens out stocks from industries such as uranium mining, gambling, armaments and tobacco, and there's the SRI overlay." Hartnett said that it is more difficult to use responsible investment strategies with a quantitative approach to ...

RIAA: Responsible Investment portfolios continue to grow

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... 2012 average returns for responsible investment funds (Australian equities) was 21.45%, while Perpetual's Wholesale Ethical SRI Fund was the top performing fund in 2012, returning 39.7% "This goes straight to the heart of the criticism that you sacrifice ...

Barclays and MSCI launch ESG Fixed Income Indices

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
... developed using Barclay's fixed income indices and MSCI's ESG research. The three categories - Barclays MSCI Socially Responsible (SRI) Indices, the Barclays MSCI Sustainability Indices, and the Barclays MSCI ESG Weighted Indices - cater to different ...

Dalton Nicol Reid: using ESG to find sustainable earnings

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... investment process in its high conviction equities portfolio, and in a more targeted way in its socially responsible investment (SRI) portfolio, which uses both overweights towards ESG outperformance and negative screens to eliminate undesired exposures. ...

Duncan Paterson steps down as RIAA board chair

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... he said. "Some of the key initiatives over time have been the RIAA benchmark reporsts, the RIAA certification program for SRI funds and providers, which I think has played a strong catalytic role to develop more product in the market, and the RIAA academy ...

Kidney: Australia should look to fund NBN with green bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... the moment amongst insurers or pension funds, plus there's an increasing re-rating towards bonds anyway, then you've got the SRI and the pension funds looking to do well and do good, if you look at those three things, there is an opportunity there." ...