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Super, fund manager lends muscle to net zero target

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
... transition and to be able to use what data is available now." Mercer is commencing with its equities holdings as well as fixed income, but are also extending their analysis into direct property and infrastructure. Reid noted that the external managers ...

Assessing climate risk in corporate bond portfolios

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 25 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
... accelerates. "Effectively, there are three stages to the process," said Emily Homer, portfolio manager, international fixed income insurance and pensions. "The first stage is to identify the readiness of a company for the carbon transition. Secondly ...

ESG a total-portfolio subject: bfinance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
... in the prevalence of all of these practices within specific asset classes over the last three years as well - in fixed income, for example, ESG Integration has risen from 29% three years ago to 64% while negative screening has risen from 29% to 53%. ...

Neuberger Berman joins global diversity initiative

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 8 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
... a private, independent, employee-owned investment manager that maintains a range of strategies-including equity, fixed income, quantitative and multi-asset class, private equity, real estate and hedge funds-on behalf of institutions, advisors and individual ...

Integrating ESG to manage risks of high yield credit

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... on overall costs of capital. Q&A with Michael Della Vedova, European high yield portfolio manager/analyst in the fixed income division at T. Rowe Price. Q: How does ESG integrate into a high yield credit strategy? A : We meet management teams and unpack ...

Integrating impact investing in listed equity portfolios

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... and conservation, among other themes. As demonstrated in the RIAA study, impact investing has been concentrated in fixed income and real assets, a growing number of fund managers are developing or have launched listed equity strategies that are linked ...

Water, water risk everywhere: DWS

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 7 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... It can be quite a powerful influence in terms of building more resilience, particularly in the listed equity and fixed income spaces." Investors have a role to play, but only in concert with other parts of the investment chain - governments should legislate ...

Robeco launches SDG-linked credit income fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
... a multi-step step review of how the company performs against the SDGs, said Erik Keller, client portfolio manager fixed income. The first step is to evaluate a company's products and services to see if they contribute positively, negatively or neutrally ...

Considering potential ESG implications of the US election

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 5 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
... weeks after the election)," said Nathan Sheets, chief economist and head of global macroeconomic research of PGIM Fixed Income. "There is broad-based political support for such measures, but the highly charged political environment in the run-up to the ...

BetaShares to launch ethical diversified ETFs

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 5 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
... - the global equities-focused ethical ETF ETHI, the Australian equities-focused ethical ETF, FAIR, and the global fixed income ETF, GBND. ETHI has $880 million in assets under management, FAIR has $700 million and GBND has $90 million in AUM currently ...