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MLC Life sustainability manager joins impact firm

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 23 APR 2024  |  NEWS
... sustainability manager. Prior, she was the head of ethics and impact at U Ethical Investors and an ESG consultant at MSCI ESG Research. With a background in climate science, sustainability best practice and infrastructure planning, Lucchese worked for ...

Sustainable bonds underperform on climate targets

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 16 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... Labelled-bond issuers on average had 67% of total emissions covered by targets compared with 55% for the other issuers. MSCI ESG Research found that 40% of labelled-bond issuers had reported meeting previous targets, surpassing the 20% reported by other ...

MSCI climate tool provides new data for private real estate assets

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... information, again, which is climate change specific," said David Lunsford, head of climate policy and strategy at MSCI ESG Research. "It looks a bit at the current standing of the asset, you look at how climate change risk could manifest over time ...

Questions raised over governance implications of share buyback schemes

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 APR 2020  |  NEWS
... opportunities, and if they're demonstrating that, you have to wonder about the quality of the business." In 2018, MSCI ESG Research examined the MSCI USA Index Share to evaluate the impacts of share buyback schemes on US large cap companies. The study ...

NZ Super to divest from gun manufacture investments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2019  |  NEWS
... Richemont, Sturm, Ruger & Company and Vista Outdoor Inc. The Guardians has worked with its external service provider MSCI ESG Research to identify companies captured by the new exclusion category. The Guardians updates its exclusion list on a six-monthly ...

Core Civic, GEO Group flagged for ESG controversies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 OCT 2018  |  NEWS
... MSCI's research system for social concerns, said Meggin Thwing Eastman, head of impact and screening research for MSCI ESG Research. "Each one has issues around immigration detention facilities in Texas with numerous complaints of sexual exploitation ...

40% of ASX200 fall short of the carbon reduction requirements: MSCI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 16 OCT 2018  |  NEWS
... around power utilities and relief, and then what would happen under the Paris scenario," said Brendan Baker, MSCI ESG research associate and co-author of the report. "It really depends on the policy that is enacted and the sector's technical capacity ...

Examining the corporate governance implications of share buybacks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2018  |  NEWS
... was on building bigger companies, so you saw a lot of M&A activity," said Ric Marshall, executive director, MSCI ESG Research. "One of the things you could do with money if you weren't investing in R&D, you could build a bigger company buying up smaller ...

Sustainable Development Goals present "enormous opportunity" for business

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 13 APR 2017  |  NEWS
... 1,637 companies in developed markets, and 72 Australian companies across 10 industrial sectors are in the index. MSCI ESG Research compared the performances of these companies to the MSCI ESG Sustainable Impact Metrics, a methodology that determines ...

Remerga launches Emerging Markets Sustainable Leaders Fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAR 2017  |  NEWS
... 150 names, which pass muster on all fronts." The stocks in the portfolio are evaluated on ESG grounds based on MSCI ESG research, research from Sustainalytics, and through the proprietary research done by Remerga's analysts, Johnson said. "There is a ...
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