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Trucost hires Michael Salvatico to head APAC ESG business development

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2020  |  NEWS
... financial institutions in the Americas. She will be based in New York. Gandy several years of experience in sustainable investing strategies and fixed income portfolio management, having worked at several leading financial organisations, including Bank ...

Morningstar acquires outstanding majority of Sustainalytics

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2020  |  NEWS
... public and private markets are demanding ESG data, research, ratings, and solutions in order to make informed, meaningful investing decisions," said Kunal Kapoor, Morningstar chief executive officer. "From climate change to supply-chain practices, the ...

Brokers recognised for research at ESG Research Australia awards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2020  |  NEWS
... critical foundation of good investment practice," said Simon O'Connor, RIAA CEO and chair of ESG Research Australia. "ESG investing is about making better investment decisions over the longer term by taking into account factors that are too often glossed ...

Sustainable Australia Fund on COVID-19 impacts, upgrade finance outlook

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2020  |  NEWS
... approval). "We acted early as an organisation to enforce our COVID 19 plan, recognising that business wouldn't want to be investing for a while," Bocskay said. "Our plan was to act quickly, act decisively, forget everything you thought you knew, and ...

Q&A: Pablo Berrutti, on the launch of the Altiorem research platform

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2020  |  NEWS
... worth investors are not necessarily finance people, and they have to rely on financial advisors to help them with their investing. They're not getting what they want in terms of sustainable investing, and they need access to information that allows them ...

Climate risk assessment impacts on small, mid-cap portfolios: Fairlight AM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2020  |  NEWS
... together is giving investment managers a much clearer picture of a company's carbon impact and the risks associated with investing. Investing defensively in a riskier asset class In the global small and mid-cap space, ESG analysis is helping portfolio ...

Fundamental portfolio managers analyse ESG performance of funds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 APR 2020  |  NEWS
... managers with fundamental qualitative ESG-themed portfolios. Jenn-Hui Tan, global head of stewardship and sustainable investing, Fidelity International. Although managers caution that financial markets are exhibiting extreme volatility and that it is ...

The role of finance has never been more important: RIAA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 APR 2020  |  NEWS
... Anderson, founder and president of the US-based Criterion Institute urged greater imagination in applying gender lens investing solutions to solving gender inequalities. "There are pressing concerns in healthcare, but what's happening right now is that ...

ESG indices, products faring relatively better in coronavirus response

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2020  |  NEWS
... market volatility in that sector, said Alex Vynokur, managing director, BetaShares. "The rate of adoption of ethical investing has been growing very fast and as you know, the strategies that BetaShares has been bringing to market, in terms of FAIR as ...

Majority expect savings, super to be ethically invested: RIAA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2020  |  NEWS
... the report From Values to Riches 2020, 80% of those surveyed cited environmental issues are of greatest concern when investing their money. Simon O'Connor, RIAA CEO, linked that concern over environmental issues to this summer's bushfire emergency, and ...