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Sustainalytics hires Jodie Tapscott as head of Australasia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 28 NOV 2019  |  NEWS
... active member of the responsible investment community within Australia. She is currently an advisory committee member for Tobacco Free Portfolios and a member of the Financial Services Council's ESG working group. Previously, she was a lead investor ...

Willis Towers Watson launches Australian Global Equity Focus Fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 NOV 2019  |  NEWS
... principles in three ways - underlying manager research includes review of approach to sustainable investing; exclusion of tobacco and controversial weapons; and ongoing engagement with portfolio companies via Hermes stewardship overlay. "We like to have ...

Amundi launches Amundi Funds Multi-Asset Sustainable Future

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 SEP 2019  |  NEWS
... investment universe excludes controversial issuers according to Amundi's pre-defined criteria - companies in defense, tobacco, alcohol, gambling, nuclear, pornography, any companies violating human rights, labour rights, or using child labour ; general ...

BlackRock launches unlisted iShares ESG Global Bond Index Fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 AUG 2019  |  NEWS
... unlisted iShares ESG Australian Bond Index Fund," according to BlackRock. The fund excludes issuers in eight core filters: tobacco, alcohol, gambling, military weapons, civilian firearms, nuclear power, adult entertainment and genetically modified organisms ...

RI market nears $1 trillion, increased focus on lifting leading practice: RIAA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2019  |  NEWS
... in their investment products. The most prevalent negative screens conducted by investment managers are for weapons and tobacco, followed by fossil fuels and human rights. But RIAA found that consumer's searches for negative screens products via its Responsible ...

Legg Mason launches QS Investors Global Responsible Investment Fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2019  |  NEWS
... applied across the investment universe to remove companies that do not meet certain ethical criteria." Exclusions include tobacco, gambling, alcohol, defence and weapons, fur, genetically modified crops, nuclear energy, oil sands and thermal coal. "QS ...

CFSGAM to divest from tobacco products across portfolio

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAY 2019  |  NEWS
... First State Global Asset Management (CFSGAM)/First State Investments is now excluding manufacturers of cigarettes and tobacco products from its portfolios. "There is no shortage of credible evidence of the wide-reaching harm caused by the tobacco industry ...

NZ Super to divest from gun manufacture investments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2019  |  NEWS
... munitions, the manufacture or testing of nuclear explosive devices, the manufacture of anti-personnel mines, the manufacture of tobacco, the processing of whale meat, and recreational cannabis. The fund also excludes a small number of individual companies ...

Zuper Super launches Wealthness hub to educate, engage member base

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2019  |  NEWS
... Super offers members two "bases", which constitute at least 80% of member's investments - Zuper Impact, which screens out tobacco and nuclear weapons, and Zuper Impact Plus, which also screens out gambling, pornography, alcohol and fossil fuels. On top ...

The pros and cons of using ESG signals in shorting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 OCT 2018  |  NEWS
... your staff well, if you don't damage the environment, you're going to do better, in general," he said. "If you look at tobacco, the damage to public health is an unpriced externality, which is a risk. If you look at governance, we know that diverse teams ...