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Sustainalytics rates unmanaged ESG risk in ASX200

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2019  |  NEWS
The Australian listed equities benchmark has slightly less unmanaged environmental, social and governance (ESG) risk than benchmarks in the US, UK and Canada, with the exception of the Australian materials sector, which has relatively more risk than ...

Investment in climate-related opportunities grow: IGCC

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 AUG 2019  |  NEWS
... said. "Diversification is a key theme, with investors allocating capital across a broad range of classes including listed equities, private equity, fixed income, infrastructure, timber, forestry and agriculture, and real estate." The main barrier to ...

AllianceBernstein launches Australian low-carbon equities strategy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUN 2019  |  NEWS
... addition to the universe of available low-carbon investment strategies." This is the CEFC's first investment in listed equities, said Ian Learmonth, CEFC CEO. "Our participation in the Green MVE portfolio allows us to further extend our emissions focus ...

Institutional investor appetite for low carbon investment strengthens: IGCC

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 AUG 2018  |  NEWS
... increasing activity and investor interest in low carbon opportunities across a broader range of asset classes. Listed equities, fixed income and real estate remain key areas of activity," Herd said. "However, policy uncertainty remains a significant ...

Protecting impact from Greenwash - Duncan Paterson

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 APR 2018  |  NEWS
... discipline with applications across all asset classes, when looking at funds that invest primarily in publicly listed equities, one is forced to ask questions about the additionality of the investment. In other words, if the investor wasn't holding those ...

Eight Investment Partners launches 8IP Australian Equity Impact Fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2018  |  NEWS
... financially. "It would make sense to me on two levels, in what I describe as embedded alpha in impact investing in listed equities," Series said. "Investors, and increasingly, employees and customers are going to demand better standards, better quality ...

Implementing impact investment across asset classes

PIA LEFEVRE  |  FRIDAY, 2 DEC 2016  |  NEWS
... intentionality across portfolios, and assessing how that intentionality can be used within a management strategy of listed equities. Vu of Impact Investment Group noted that impact has to be assessed at the total portfolio level, and that it is necessary ...

Impax Asset Management analyses environmental impact of portfolio

PIA LEFEVRE  |  FRIDAY, 23 SEP 2016  |  NEWS
... CO2 per £10 million (AU$17 million) invested in 2015. Bruce Jenkyn-Jones, managing director and co-head of listed equities, Impax Asset Management For the second year, Impax has analysed the positive environmental impact of its smaller cap global ...

Companies, investors assessing Sustainable Development Goals

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAY 2016  |  NEWS
... Goals to the metrics after the goals' launch in September 2015. The metrics are a framework to analyse global listed equities through the lens of impact investment, but by leveraging existing reporting standards and mechanisms like the Sustainable Development ...

Companies exposed to water scarcity risks: Sustainalytics

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAY 2016  |  NEWS
... companies worldwide currently disclose their annual water consumption, out of a global investable universe of 70,000 listed equities, including about 5,000 mid/large cap, according to the report. "That's a relatively small number, and on the quality ...