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Instos seeking smart carbon plays

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 23 SEP 2016
... environmental impact analysis for the smaller cap global specialists strategy, assured by EY. Jenkyn-Jones says the additional metrics help investors gain a better understanding of the positive environmental outcome of their allocation, focusing on C02 ...

Standard Life appoints RI analysts

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 16 AUG 2016
... been head of ESG research business development for the UK and Northern Europe at MSCI. He has also held roles at Risk Metrics, Innovest and New York Climate Rescue. Sophie Rahm, meanwhile, joins Standard Life's ESG investment team from Schroders, where ...

NAS launches ESG reporting service

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 15 AUG 2016
... environmental, social and governance (ESG) insight reporting service, allowing clients to assess and monitor a range of ESG metrics. The service provides the firm's asset servicing clients including superannuation funds with deeper insights into their ...

Instos demanding ESG metrics

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 9 AUG 2016
Institutional investors are calling for metrics to analyse companies' environmental, social, and governance (ESG) practices in the belief that these can correlate with positive financial performance. Michele Giuditta, associate director at global analytics ...

Goal based investing puts retirees in the spotlight

KERRIE SYDEE  |  THURSDAY, 4 AUG 2016
... situation and I know how to invest that money relevant to that situation rather than just doing something on a set of metrics that means nothing to the investor." The yet to be released products will provide investors with flexibility and allow them ...

Henderson insto flows turn positive

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2016
... that Henderson's funds had provided consistently strong investment performance with 77% of funds outperforming relevant metrics over three years as at 30 June 2016. Earlier this week Avoca Investment Management portfolio manager John Campbell said the ...

Class launches SMSF benchmark report

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUL 2016
... launching a quarterly industry benchmark report so that customers and industry participants have better access to key metrics in the sector. In an announcement to the ASX, Class said it will extract de-identified data from its Class Super platform and ...

Investment committees must consider culture

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAY 2016
... consultant believes culture and leadership among investment committees can be mapped to meaningful business performance metrics, something often undervalued at asset owner and asset management firms. Speaking at a recent Willis Towers Watson ideas exchange ...

Dimensional launches ESG trust

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAY 2016
... screens companies both at a portfolio and an industry level, underweighting firms which rank poorly on sustainability metrics and overweighting those with more sustainable practices. The outcome is a dramatically reduced carbon footprint that effectively ...

Super investment pros make top 40

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAY 2016
... allocation to real assets - infrastructure and property - remains vexing. Other than for the risk premia, for most historical metrics, these assets look highly expensive. Real assets are a material allocation for us." The annual list never repeats its ...