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New Zealand super goes green

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 15 AUG 2017
... relatively small group of companies. "By targeting this group we have been able to significantly reduce the fund's carbon footprint while retaining the diversification benefits of passive investment," Whineray said. The low-carbon portfolio will be based ...

Acorns adds ESG investment option

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 15 JUN 2017
... However, they also don't want to give up their ability to get returns," Lucas said. Last month, Acorns launched a carbon footprint estimating tool that calculates users' carbon usage based on their spending activities.

ESG adoption grows, returns follow

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 21 APR 2017
... appreciation of the notion that good governance translates into better management of areas such as a company's carbon footprint, as well as how management engages with the workforce. The companies that operate this way, we believe, are better quality ...

Climate calling

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 9 JAN 2017
... investment managers to ask 'how are you thinking about climate change' and 'what are you doing to help me lower my carbon footprint' and help society by meeting the aspirations of the recent Paris (COP21) agreement. "I think that's quite a new conversation ...

NAS debuts carbon reporting service

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 8 DEC 2016
... investment carbon intensity across portfolios and investment managers. It supports the reporting of a fund's carbon footprint (eg. Montreal pledge) and provides clients additional opportunities to further disclose fund carbon exposures." The new tool ...

NZ Super tackles climate change

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 20 OCT 2016
... example into valuation models, risk allocation and manager selection. The Guardians will also report the fund's carbon footprint annually. "We will continue to manage climate risks by being an active owner, including prioritising climate change engagements ...

CBA partners to finance clean energy

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 7 OCT 2016
... operating costs, but we're seeing businesses increasingly aware of other benefits to their business, reducing their carbon footprint, adding value to their brand and improving their productivity. "In particular, we see huge potential for the transport ...

Instos seeking smart carbon plays

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 23 SEP 2016
... Jenkyn-Jones says. The equities manager knows there are investors who have gone down the road of investing in carbon footprint-based indices but he believes this method doesn't best capture or pinpoint stranded asset risk. In a recent whitepaper Impax ...

Vision Super divests from three high carbon companies

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 SEP 2016
... investment management giant Amundi includes exposure to three companies which together make up 80% of Amundi's total carbon footprint of the portfolio: Korea South East Power, Holcim Finance Australia and Qantas Airways. Vision Super has removed the ...

Instos demanding ESG metrics

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 9 AUG 2016
... (PFZW), the second largest pension fund in the Netherlands. Following the fund's November commitment to halve its carbon footprint by 2020, PGGM, the fund manager behind the pension scheme, has mandated UBS Asset Management to develop a methodology to ...