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ESG mispriced by markets: CFSGAM

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 26 JUN 2017
... society." A further 70% believed companies would gain a competitive advantage by developing a strategic response to ESG concerns. However, the research also found that investment professionals believe ESG is not efficiently priced by markets; 75% said ...

ESG holds key to adviser client retention

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2017
Financial advisers that aren't doing more to incorporate ESG concerns into investment portfolios may be left in the dust by millennials. With the new generation of advice clients driving the ESG conversation, Eaton Vance head of Australia Duncan Hodnett ...

Cbus signs new Paris ESG commitment

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUL 2016
... practice is a failure of fiduciary duty." The statement aims to promote "globally consistent mechanisms" to determine ESG concerns for investors. Cbus chief executive David Atkin explained that the $32 billion super fund "has long been committed to principles ...

Dimensional launches ESG trust

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAY 2016
... smaller market capitalisation, lower-relative prices and higher profitability. Investments that take into account ESG concerns represented nearly $600 billion of assets under management last year, according to the 2015 annual benchmark report of the ...

Divestment could reach $50bn in five years

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 11 AUG 2015
... seeking to raise capital can make themselves quite attractive to these institutional investors by addressing their ESG concerns. To support this claim Reynolds cited a 2013 meta study by the Deutsche Bank Global Financial Institute that found companies ...

BNY Mellon to provide ESG insights

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2015
... Sustainalytics to provide environmental, social and governance insights to securities issuers. In response to growing ESG concerns in its investor-base, and the growing number of signatories in the United Nations' Principles for Responsible Investment ...

ESG becoming essential to insto alternative investment

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2015
... ESG issues into their alternative asset investments. Similarly, 69% of participants believed their stakeholders had ESG concerns. According to the report, the most common cited ESG issues were climate change, human rights abuses, child labour, controversial ...

AXA IM includes ESG in smart beta offering

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAR 2014
... supplier chain relations, but that also satisfies the basic requirements for a smart beta strategy." McDonald said ESG concerns would be introduced to the existing vanilla strategy. Stocks already included in the strategy that are "abject failures" from ...

ESG risks can wipe $21.4bn off sharemarket: study

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAR 2013
... research is explicit, so when we have an analyst recommendation of a target price, it includes a percentage downside for ESG concerns and if those concerns went away, it is possible that the share price could recover by that amount," Credit Suisse analyst ...

AustralianSuper creates governance role

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 27 JUN 2011
... building up their own in-house expertise. AustralianSuper said companies that use good governance practices with ESG concerns will perform better long-term, adding that the super fund must assess and manage all foreseeable risk factors and ensure that ...