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Showing 111 - 120 of 148 results for United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment

Carthona endorses UN PRI

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 17 FEB 2009
... Carthona Agriculture, a green investment consultancy for institutional investors, is incorporating the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment into its services. Charlie Blomfield, managing director of Carthona, said applying these principles ...

Bennelong signs ex-ARIA chief Gibbs

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 13 FEB 2009
... United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan also invited Gibbs to help formalise what would become the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (UN PRI), which the firm recently signed. Meanwhile, the firm also appointed Jenny Diggle to the ...

PE group adopts ESG

MEDIA RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 12 FEB 2009
... PEC and some of the worlds' largest institutional investors. The principles have the backing of the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (UN PRI). This means PEC members are required to consider public safety and health issues in target ...

CFS pumps up ESG investing

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 FEB 2009
... consider," said CFS chief investment officer David Dixon. Colonial First State first signed up to the United Nations Principles of Responsible Investment in March 2007. According to CFS, the global financial crisis has put into context the need for more ...

VicSuper and HESTA champion ESG

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 FEB 2009
... committed to collect data to track long-term performance of its research, and work closely with the United Nations Principles of Responsible Investment Research Database. HESTA and VicSuper are now looking for fund managers and other funds to be involved ...

UK coalition pushes responsible investment cause

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2009
... adversely affect the financial markets. The statement also urged institutional investors to sign the United Nations Principles of Responsible Investment (UN PRI) which commits firms to engage with firms on corporate governance and environmental and social ...

Time to go green: Tyndall

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 16 JAN 2009
... Tyndall Investment Management has become the latest Australian fund manager to become a signatory of the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment. Tyndall signed the dotted line to become a signatory last week, although the fund manager has ...

UniSuper ramps up Asia corporate governance

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 25 NOV 2008
... institutions to vote in as many jurisdictions as practicable. The move also echoes the fund's commitment to the United Nations Principles of Responsible Investment (UNPRI), which encourage funds to actively vote their proxies. "Our move into Asia reflects ...

IML signs UN PRI

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2008
Investors Mutual Limited (IML) has signed the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (UN PRI), adding more than $4 billion in funds under management to the burgeoning responsible investment pool of assets. Tony Richard-Preston, IML senior ...

Aviva pushes PRI cause

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 14 NOV 2008
... practices will now extend to all global holdings on the MSCI World Index. The firm is also including the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (UN PRI) in its contracts with other firms to assess and compare global best practice. "Aviva ...