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Mercer invests in consulting business

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2011
... Richard Fuller joins Mercer from HESTA super fund where he managed the fund's commitments in accordance with the United Nations principles for responsible investment. Fuller's experience in the ESG field dovetails well with Mercer's own environmental ...

ASFA gains new strategy director

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAR 2011
... brought a strong grounding in environmental, social and governance issues to the job, having formerly worked with the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment. "With a growing need for trustees to understand environmental, social and governance ...

Media Super signs UN PRI

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 29 OCT 2010
Media Super has become one of the latest super funds to adopt the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment. Media Super, the industry fund which caters to people in creative industries, said it believes companies that act in a responsible ...

AMP hires environment, social governance expert

NEWS RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 7 SEP 2010
... engineering consultancies WSP Group, CH2M Hill and Dames and Moore (URS). Kirkman will be responsible for employing the United Nations Principles of Responsible Investing (UNPRI) and ESG considerations, and will facilitate the continued implementation ...

CFSGAM aims for top quartile UN PRI performance

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 9 JUL 2010
... the UN PRI. At a briefing yesterday, CFS GAM said they want to rank at the top of the pile across five of the six United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (UN PRI) by the next financial reporting year. The fund manager has published its third ...

CFSGAM studies infrastructure ESG risk

PRESS RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUN 2010
... course for the infrastructure team on the environmental and social issues facing the asset class. CFSGAM signed the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (UN PRI) in 2007. Perry Clausen, global co-head of CFSGAM Infrastructure, said it's ...

CFSGAM targets global trends with commodities fund

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUN 2010
... of factors including a burgeoning global population is putting finite resources under pressure. According to the United Nations (UN) and the World Bank, the world's population will grow from 6.5 billion people in 2005 to over 9 billion people by 2050 ...

Solaris hires ex-Suncorp ESG manager

PRESS RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAY 2010
... the Suncorp Investment Management Ethical Balanced Trust and other ESG portfolios. Solaris is a signatory to the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (UN PRI), which encourages asset owners, investment managers and professional service ...

Global investors push for corruption info

PRESS RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAY 2010
... (ICGN) and UN Global Compact. The statement was sent to companies in nine countries and all signatories to the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (UN PRI) including Boston Common Asset Management, Hermes EOS and AP1 the Swedish National ...

Acadian counts corp governance risk

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 APR 2010
... time," said Jim Wylie, executive vice president, marketing at Acadian. This news comes after Acadian signed the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (UN PRI). More than 700 entities have signed the UN PRI and more than half the signatories ...