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Responsible investment reaches tipping point, more work to come: RIAA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 AUG 2018  |  NEWS
... billion, representing 12% of all professionally managed assets, more than tripling between 2015 and 2017, according to the research. But with responsible investment strategies seeming to hit a tipping point, the challenge to the industry is "so what?" ...

Nanuk Asset Management on sustainability aspects of artificial intelligence

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 AUG 2018  |  NEWS
... AI through companies which collect data, such as Continental and TE connectivity, supply semi-conductors, such as Lam research, Teradyne, and design chips capable of performing the many calculations needed for deep learning, such as Nvidia. The fund ...

US activists target banks over finance to for-profit prisons, detention centres

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2018  |  NEWS
... that as a problem. These campaigns of community engagement are moving to the trustees of pension funds." Shar Habibi, research and policy director of In the Public Interest, which published research on the financing of Core Civic and GEO Group, calls ...

Q&A: Yolanda Beattie, Mercer, talks Future IM/Pact initiative

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2018  |  NEWS
... years into their career in investment banking or working at the RBA or working in clinical laboratory settings in cancer research labs, all of these different places where the best and brightest analytical minds and problem solvers can be found. Then ...

ACCR, CAER study gender pay gap at ASX100 companies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUL 2018  |  NEWS
... agreements." The report was supported by Future Super, and Future Super Managing Director Kirstin Hunter noted that supporting research into gender pay gap is a concern for the fund. "Gender and the intersection between gender and superannuation is a ...

Konica Minolta on working towards ethical supply chain

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2018  |  NEWS
... services. There is potential for modern slavery within those supplier arrangements that we have, so I started to do a bit of research." Cooke pointed to the Walk Free Foundation as a resource that provided a basis for looking to their own operations. ...

ASX200 stocks with strong ESG performance outperform: Regnan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2018  |  NEWS
... high ESG scores outperform the ASX200 average, while stocks with low ESG scores underperform the benchmark, according to research from Regnan. Pauline Vamos, Regnan chief executive Regnan has published an extract of research conducted by Dr Darren Lee ...

ACSI to expand research, analyst team

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2018  |  NEWS
The Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI) is expanding its ESG research and analyst team because of increased demand for investment stewardship services by its members. Ed John, ACSI executive manager, governance, engagement and policy ...

bfinance analyses ESG integration activities of Japanese active equity managers

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2018  |  NEWS
... investment processes, but the balance of activity is in the corporate governance side, according to analysis from manager research and selection firm bfinance. Julien Barral, director, equity research at bfinance bfinance research has shown that a "substantial ...

Stewart Investors backs research on packaging sustainability performance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2018  |  NEWS
Stewart Investors has commissioned research from the Institute for Sustainable Futures (ISF) at the University of Technology Sydney that has led to the development of a packaging sustainability performance framework. David Gait, managing partner, Stewart ...