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Investec Asset Management launches Global Environment Strategy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2019  |  NEWS
Investec Asset Management has launched the Investec Global Environment Strategy, which invests in public companies across the value chain that benefit from the trend towards decarbonisation. (Image Courtesy Investec Asset Management) "Scope 3 is a lot ...

Raiz Invest partners with UNSW on machine-learning technology

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2019  |  NEWS
... and it's a great collaboration because especially in machine leaning and artificial intelligence, a lot of it is about the data. We have a very rich data set, and the universities have very smart brains about the latest and greatest in algorithms and ...

ACSI research outlines guidelines to assessing Modern Slavery risks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 FEB 2019  |  NEWS
... 30 June year end, that's 30 June 2020 that they'd report on. Companies have a bit of time to think about this and put the data collection in place to come up with something meaningful. "Our expectation would be that they would actually put in place investigations ...

Australian businesses seek positive social impact: Deloitte

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2019  |  NEWS
... more socially conscious, and they believe societal initiatives, more often than not, contribute to their profitability. - Data-Driven Decisives are confidently leading their organisations in Industry 4.0, taking a methodical approach to strategy development ...

Big data, ESG ratings can combine to unlock investment return: TruValue

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 DEC 2018  |  NEWS
Investors can unlock "significant positive alpha" by combining big data mining techniques and traditional ESG ratings, according to TruValue Labs. TruValue Labs, a San Francisco based research firm that uses artificial intelligence to analyze and interpret ...

Digitalization a megatrend with risks as well as opportunities: Morphosis

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2018  |  NEWS
... human experience. Carter pointed to Facebook's recent share price performance off the back of revelations regarding users' data privacy as a risk that the built environment should consider. He noted that financial markets are uncertain when it comes ...

Insight Investment analyses ESG factors affecting sovereign credit

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2018  |  NEWS
... worst performer was Afghanistan, which "has suffered after many years of conflict. Politically and socially unstable, little data is available on environmental factors." Australia's ESG performance is "generally strong, driven by social and governance ...

The pros and cons of using ESG signals in shorting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 OCT 2018  |  NEWS
... ESG signals can be applied to shorting strategies. Mans Carlsson-Sweeny, Ausbil But there are fund managers that use ESG data for shorting purposes, and say that using the technique can add alpha to a fund's performance, and can also be used as a signal ...

40% of ASX200 fall short of the carbon reduction requirements: MSCI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 16 OCT 2018  |  NEWS
... happens if the government lifts its ambition to align with a 2 degree world, under the third scenario. Under each scenario the data is pulled apart, and you get different outcomes." Under all three regulatory scenarios, the sectors that faced the greatest ...

40% of Chinese Coal Power Plants are Losing Money: Carbon Tracker

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 16 OCT 2018  |  NEWS
... sector and to do that, we need to know the extent to which power plants are being used, and outside the US and the EU, the data is unreliable or out of date," Gray said. "That's why we thought of using satellite imagery. We used a combination of commercial ...