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Metrics Credit Partners joins climate partnership

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 14 OCT 2021
Metrics Credit Partners became the first Australian non-bank asset manager to join the Climate Bonds Partnership Programme. Metrics joins the big four banks, the Green Buildings Council of Australia and the Clean Energy Finance Corporation in the Climate ...

Employers unaware of YFYS, stapling: Study

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 7 OCT 2021
... within YFYS, typically do not actively engage with their fund, rate their fund lower across key [customer experience] metrics, and are more likely to switch funds in the next 12 months."

Metrics hires three senior leads

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 17 SEP 2021
Metrics Credit Partners made three senior appointments within its investments and corporate teams as it continues to grow and sharpen its focus on sustainability. Joining in August, Luke Adams is the new group treasurer for finance and fund accounting. ...

MSCI launches implied temperature tool

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 SEP 2021
... institutions measure and disclose the alignment of their portfolios with the goals of the Paris Agreement using forward-looking metrics. "Climate change is the greatest challenge of our time and capital markets participants are critical to driving the ...

Transition to renewables trumps divestment

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 SEP 2021
... emissions and looking at that on a benchmark relative term. We now have - thanks to the third- party data providers - multiple metrics at a company level, not just the emissions and historical emissions metrics, but also these forward-looking metrics ...

Consumer group slams super self-assessments

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 30 AUG 2021
... measures, like the APRA heatmaps. "Going forward, we think it is appropriate that APRA forces funds to use independent metrics. The current round of self-reporting would have led people in the worst performing funds to believe their fund was a gold medallist," ...

ASX 100 missing key reporting metric: ACCR

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 27 AUG 2021
... contracted workforce; many fail to report health and safety data for contractors; and companies often use different reporting metrics for direct and indirect workforces. For 14% of companies ACCR looked at, it wasn't clear that deaths and safety incidents ...

Evergreen launches RI index

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 AUG 2021
... index based on a grading system that focuses on an investment manager's intent and actions rather than solely on portfolio metrics. The Evergreen Responsible Investment Grading Index (ERIG Index) is set to be a useful tool for financial advisers to select ...

UK pension funds commit to manager diversity

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 AUG 2021
... diversity and inclusion questionnaire and an asset owner charter toolkit. The questionnaire aims to standardise diversity metrics beyond just gender to improve on disclosures, with results to feed into a progress report to inform engagement. It includes ...

Good year for active managers in fixed income

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 16 JUL 2021
... Macquarie Australian Fixed Interest Trust, PIMCO's Australian Bond Fund (Class A) and Australia Bond Fund (wholesale class), Metrics Direct Income Fund and MCP Master Income Trust.