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VicSuper chooses SSgA for active global equities ESG mandate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
... "This program is unique in that ESG principles will be integrated into the stock selection process rather than having an overlay, where individual stocks are simply excluded based on their ESG credentials." SSgA, which has managed ESG portfolios for ...

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 ...

AXA IM brings ESG metrics to fixed income portfolio analysis

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... eliminate countries with significant ESG risks, which can potentially pose a reputational risk to investors, and as an overlay, to tilt a portfolio to overweigh strong ESG performance and underweigh poor ESG performance. "If you want to be smart and ...

US$178.5bn in sustainable investments in Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... corporate engagement, and two specialist engagement organisations, Regnan, and F&C Management's responsible engagement overlay, provide corporate engagement services on behalf of superannuation funds and institutional investors with total shareholdings ...

NAB Asset Servicing developing ESG overlay tool

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... National Australia Bank's custody and administration division is in the process of developing a responsible investment overlay tool that will provide superannuation fund trustees with a monthly report on the environmental, social and governance exposures ...

Kidney: Australia should look to fund NBN with green bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... foreseeable future. "There are two angles - either a straight-forward agricultural origination that happens to have an overlay of assets through the CFI exposure," Kidney said. " There is the possibility of a carbon-credit style issuance for bond area. ...

Superannuation funds increasingly act, invest sustainably

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... Service Providers, up from 30% in 2009. Additionally, 42% of funds told SuperRatings that they use an ESG integration or overlay approach to SRI investment, 41% are adopting sustainable investment practices due to government policies, an increase of ...

GBST, CAER to offer quantitative ESG data tool

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... risk management tool aimed at superannuation funds and fund managers. The product can be used as a responsible investment overlay for ASX300 equities, with a set of 12 ESG factors - four environmental, four social, four governance - which can be incorporated ...

Finsia: ESG consistent with superannuation fiduciary duties

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
Integrating environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors into investment processes is "entirely consistent" with the fiduciary duties of superannuation trustees, the Financial Services Institute of Australasia (Finsia) said in a newly published ...

Catholic Super hires investment manager for sustainability

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
... support of sustainability and RI. We do things like collaborate and engage in a variety of ways, and we use engagement overlay managers in global markets as well as Australia. But we have never had a specific component of our portfolio dedicated to the ...
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