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FTSE100 shines in ESG

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUN 2008
... human rights policy. Despite the highs and lows, one underlying factor remains current - stakeholders hold the key to better ESG practices. "Investor engagement will play an important role in improving the performance of both the best practice and laggard ...

UN PRI needs public reporting

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 26 MAY 2008
... reporting standards should be enforced to ensure finance institutions are actively applying environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues into their investment framework and business operations. "How do we set up the structures where we can tell ...

Mercer zeroes in on ESG managers

... research process to evaluate the extent fund managers pro-actively integrate environmental, social and governance factors (ESG) into their mainstream investment process. The new research approach will give Australian investors a chance to assess mainstream ...

JP Morgan runs ESG checks

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 19 MAY 2008
JP Morgan has developed a post-trade environmental, social and governance (ESG) compliance reporting service to help finance institutions comply with their socially responsible investment (SRI) policies. Using its existing post trade compliance reporting ...

IFM adopts UN PRI

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2008
... PRI includes a set of "aspirational" principals developed by the United Nations to persuade financial intuitions to consider ESG issues in the investment process. Louise Davidson, IFM sustainability project manager, is responsible for implementing the ...

Westscheme tackles ESG with Regnan

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2008
Climate change, energy use, good governance principles. Environmental, social and corporate governance issues (ESG) have become priorities of industry super fund Westscheme after appointing specialist advisor Regnan to help screen its investment options. ...

Emerging market funds to be rated on sustainability

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 APR 2008
Emerging markets (EM) fund managers may soon have to incorporate better environmental, social and governance (ESG) strategies into their investments if they wish to receive a high sustainability rating from the World Bank. IFC, the private sector division ...

MBP signs to UNPRI

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 7 APR 2008
... corporate governance issues into our decision-making process," said Kightley. Knightley claims that the firm had incorporated ESG into its business operations over a year ago, and the signing merely seals the firm's commitment to implement the UNPRI ...

Forum 'gets real' on ESG

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2008
... holding a one-day forum to ensure investment managers understand how to incorporate environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues into investment processes. Michael Walsh, Ethical Investor executive director, said while many Australian investment ...

Swiss sustainable FUM up 67 per cent

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 31 MAR 2008
... either negative screening, positive or best in class screening, proxy voting and using environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance analysis of the businesses. However the report stated it did not review how ESG issues are becoming a more popular ...