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Majority of APAC investors have an ESG investment framework: State Street

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 APR 2017  |  NEWS
... from ESG investments The biggest barrier to investors at the moment is a lack of "transparent, standardised and quality ESG data, the study found. "The lack of standards for measuring ESG performance is the number one barrier across regions for ESG integration," ...

GRESB appoints Sander Paul van Tongeren as managing director

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 DEC 2016  |  NEWS
... committed to supporting Sander Paul's new role and hope to further the broader integration of GRESB into GBCI, to provide ESG data, engagement and services, from asset to portfolio performance. There is immense potential for market transformation through ...

Corporate governance, quality linked as investment factors: Northern Trust

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 OCT 2016  |  NEWS
... research and factor-based portfolio construction, and clients in the US, Europe and Asia Pacific are interested in building ESG data into their mandates, said Michael Hunstad, head of quantitative research global equity management at Northern Trust "There's ...

AXA IM SmartBeta fund receives local recognition

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 AUG 2016  |  NEWS
... indicators, and overlays it into the SmartBeta strategy. The AXA Rosenberg team examines the ESG information to see how the ESG data correlates with traditional quantitative factors such as earnings sustainability and earnings volatility. "Since 2013 ...

BlackRock presses case for better ESG disclosures for investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2016  |  NEWS
... companies with higher ratings on ESG factors have a lower cost of capital and greater transparency around disclosure of ESG data results in lower volatility. Bennett engages with companies and regulators throughout the region on this point. "I'm engaging ...

GRESB hires Lonneke Lowik as new head of operations

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUN 2016  |  NEWS
... assets," Lowik said. "I look forward to working with the GRESB team to bring innovative products and investment-grade ESG data to the real asset sector. Investors need standardized monitoring and benchmarking tools to help them monitor and manage assets ...

CFSGAM publishes ninth responsible investment report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAY 2016  |  NEWS
... "controvsial investments' monitoring process, developing and implementing an ESG impact monitoring and reporting system, adding ESG data to global fixed income and credit systems and improving their PRI scores across categories. Berrutti particularly ...

ESG integration continues to spread across Asia: Robeco

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2016  |  NEWS
... a fundamental equities perspectives, can also demonstrate opportunities." Robeco is also exploring the ways in which ESG data can be used as a factoral indicator for quantitative strategies, Lim said. ESG integration is "a mixed picture" across Asia-Pacific ...

Tax transparency an ESG consideration for investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2016  |  NEWS
... allegations of legal but controversial practices," MSCI said. MSCI has identified three groups of investors that use ESG data - including tax transparency data - in different ways. The first group is those investors that believe that there is fundamental ...

Investors look at corporate governance metrics: BNP Paribas

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 NOV 2015  |  NEWS
... questions, BNP Paribas can provide data services that integrates corporate governance information - as well as other ESG data - into portfolio analysis, Gayer said. "From the custodian perspective, the truth is around data," he said "Mining the data ...