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LGS to boost sustainability team

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAR 2010
... consultant in September last year, replacing Intech Investments. Mercer is known for its services in implementing environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues across investment portfolios, which is core part of being a UN PRI signatory.

CFS to hire ESG manager

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAR 2010
Colonial First State Global Asset Management (CFS GAM) is in the process of hiring an Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) manager to help the group progressively embed ESG considerations across the funds it manages, now exceeding $145 billion. ...

IFSA and Deloitte launch Future Leaders award

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 1 MAR 2010
... pressing issues raised in the intergenerational report and the challenges posed by needing to integrate changing environmental, social and governance factors in the investment process. "We are looking to this new generation to consider some of the industry's ...

Pensions fail to direct manager voting

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 23 FEB 2010
... companies. On the agenda were board and committee independence, executive stock option plans, and corporate reporting on environmental and social risks. O'Neill stressed that investors should be more involved - considering trustees have a fiduciary duty ...

FuturePlus operations head in shock exit

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 15 FEB 2010
... chief executive of FuturePlus although two sponsoring unions United Services Union (USU) and the Department and Environmental Professionals' Union (DEPA) have both started a petition for him to resign because he failed to adequately manage his conflicts ...

Vanguard outlines responsible investment stance

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 8 FEB 2010
... (SAM), which led to the launch of the Sustainability Leaders Funds, is a key example of this. These indices integrate environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors and highlights those companies that score the best across all three issues. VicSuper ...

Property funds under green watch

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 29 JAN 2010
... in assets are using their investment muscle to force property companies and fund managers to stay on top of their environmental policies, following the release of a new green property benchmark. The Environmental Real Estate Index was created after a ...

Asia ushers 2010 with caution

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 25 JAN 2010
... their approach to investing in the sector, predicts Mercer. Another big trend expected to emerge this year is that environmental, social and governance factors will continue to rise on Asian investors' radar screens. "As emerging markets become wealthier ...

AustralianSuper overhauls SRI mandate

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2010
... month, mean AustralianSuper's Sustainable Balanced and Australian Sustainable Shares options will be managed using environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues when selecting stocks. Previously, the strategy was managed using an exclusion approach ...

US firm launches religious ETFs

PRESS RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2010
... Values fund. The ETFs were developed with FTSE Group and KLD Research and Analytics, which provide information on environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues in investments. The investment products exclude companies that benefit from gambling ...