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MSCI: Asia Pacific, EU green building market show potential

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... market share or investment returns, according to the research, by Mario Lopezâ€Alcala, senior analyst, MSCI ESG Research. "Companies with higher proportions of properties with green building characteristics may experience an increase in their market ...

Environmental, operating risk to unconventional oil projects

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... hydrocarbon spills and ongoing operational costs when assessing integrated oil and gas companies, according to MSCI ESG Research. Large, catastrophic environmental events are the biggest concern, according to Yulia Reuter and Dana Sasarean, senior analysts ...

Investor Profile: Five Oceans Asset Management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... you use external providers or internal research capabilities? KT: We use both. Our first cut, if you like, is MSCI ESG research - we use them as the first stop. We always do our own research on top of that. We'll go and read the company's documents ...

LGS ESG sovereign debt strategy includes green bond tilt

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... to specialist investment manager Omega Global Investors. LGS is also using external research provider MSCI's MSCI ESG research for sovereign ratings. The mandate commenced in mid-March. The sovereign ESG research covers approximately 90 countries across ...

Majority of ASX200 lack formal labour, human rights policies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... of their business performance, are also of an internationally competitive standard." The report, conducted by MSCI ESG Research and sponsored by LUCRF Super, analysed the public disclosures of ASX200 companies and compared their performance to global ...

MSCI to collaborate on Access to Nutrition Index

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... performance in making more affordable, nutritious products available to consumers. "We are proud that GAIN has chosen MSCI ESG Research to help produce the Access to Nutrition Index," said Remy Briand, Managing Director and Global Head of Index and ESG ...

Assistance will "significantly reduce" effects of carbon tax on industry

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
... investors to quantify levels of company assistance and earnings impacts," said Michael Salvatico, Vice President at MSCI ESG Research in Sydney. Under the legislation proposed by the Gillard government, a carbon tax scheme would start on 1 July 2012 ...

MSCI launches 25 new ESG indices

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
... the launch of five MSCI Global Socially Responsible Indices, constructed to include companies with the highest MSCI ESG Research ratings, while excluding companies with investments including tobacco, nuclear power and GMOs. The new ESG indices include ...

MSCI launches ESG platform

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
... landmines. MSCI will introduce ESG ratings to MSCI ESG Manager later this year. "We have been building out the new MSCI ESG Research and Index businesses: expanding our sales, client service, product development, and research teams around the globe," ...

Integrating ESG to enhance quantitative-style investment analysis

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
... owners, and a primary way of framing ESG is the risk and return factor," said Drew Fryer, a senior analyst with MSCI ESG Research in Melbourne. "It is a systematic risk to their portfolios and they want to deal with them in a systematic way as they do ...
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