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SSGA Global Index Plus Trust to exclude tobacco, controversial weapons

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 SEP 2017  |  NEWS
... unconstrained MSCI World index." The excluded companies have significant business activities involving tobacco and making cluster bombs, landmines, chemical and biological weapons and depleted uranium weapons, SSGA said. "Only really a couple of percent ...

SSGA launches tobacco, controversial weapons-free global equities fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2016  |  NEWS
... MSCI World Index, which have significant business activities involving tobacco as well as those engaged in making cluster bombs, landmines, chemical and biological weapons and depleted uranium weapons. "The strategy has been quite a few years in the ...

Local Government Super enhances carbon-related screens

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... technologies are invested in." LGS has also fully excluded investments in controversial weapons - land minds and cluster bombs - and tobacco.

Northern Trust launches emerging markets ESG index, fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... companies that breach the UN Global Compact, and the other screens remove manufacturers of controversial weapons such as cluster bombs and landmines and tobacco manufacturers. After those screens, constituent companies that lack sufficient independence ...

MSCI launches 25 new ESG indices

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
... nine indices developed for use by institutional investors and universal owners who wish to avoid investments in cluster bombs, landmines, chemical, biological, and depleted uranium weapons. The country and regional indices include the MSCI ACWI ex Controversial ...

MSCI launches ESG platform

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
... violate internal investment policies prohibiting holdings in companies that manufacture controversial weapons such as cluster bombs and landmines. MSCI will introduce ESG ratings to MSCI ESG Manager later this year. "We have been building out the new ...
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