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Connecting off-grid communities with renewable tech: AllGrid Energy

PIA LEFEVRE  |  FRIDAY, 28 OCT 2016  |  NEWS
AllGrid Energy, an Indigenous-owned and operated company, is implementing a strategy to place solar panel and battery storage systems in remote, off-grid Indigenous communities in Australia. AllGrid Energy, which launched last year as a partnership ...

Corporate governance, quality linked as investment factors: Northern Trust

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 OCT 2016  |  NEWS
Good corporate governance and quality as investment factors are converging as a measure of long-term risk adjusted return on equities, according to Northern Trust Asset Management. Michael Hunstad, head of quantitative research global equity management ...

Investors have "no place to hide" from climate change impacts: BlackRock

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 SEP 2016  |  NEWS
Investors are exposed to increasing climate change risk in four areas: technological advances, regulatory impacts, increasingly frequent extreme weather events and social pressures for greater climate awareness, according to research from the BlackRock ...

Investors seeking ESG themes, factors in fixed income portfolios

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUL 2016  |  NEWS
There is continued interest in integrating environmental, social and governance (ESG) considerations into fixed income portfolios and funds on the retail and institutional side in Australia, but fund managers find that while retail investment in ESG ...

Tax transparency an ESG consideration for investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2016  |  NEWS
Tax transparency is an issue for investor consideration as part of an overall environmental, social and governance (ESG) approaches, but the extent to which tax transparency is material depends on investment beliefs and investment approaches. Investors ...

The price of climate change to impact portfolios: BlackRock

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 NOV 2015  |  NEWS
Responding to climate change is not only a global policy initiative, and a risk factor, but companies' climate change data and responses can be used as a mark of operational and management quality, according to research from BlackRock. Dr Joanna Nash ...

Q&A: Richard Brandweiner, CIO First State Super

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2015  |  NEWS
Richard Brandweiner is the chief investment officer of First State Super, an AU$53 billion industry superannuation fund. In 2011, First State Super merged with Health Super to create one of Australia's largest public offer superannuation funds. Brandweiner ...

Northern Trust makes case for combining quality with ESG

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2015  |  NEWS
Northern Trust has launched a fund strategy that integrates their proprietary Northern Trust Quality Score (NTQS) with ESG rankings to create equity portfolios that optimise for both attributes. Michael Hunstad, head of quantitative research global ...

Inflection Point Capital Management launches Zero Carbon

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2015  |  NEWS
Inflection Point Capital Management and La Francaise have created a climate-themed global equities fund, vested with â,¬ 25 million in seed capital from La Francaise. Gordon Noble, senior portfolio analyst, Inflection Point Capital Management The ...

Aust/NZ investors committed to ESG in alt investments: Mercer

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 APR 2015  |  NEWS
Investors in Australia and New Zealand are strongly committed to integrating environmental, social and governance (ESG) considerations in their alternative asset investments, according to Mercer. Helga Birgden, head of responsible investing for Asia ...