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V-Square launches Australian ESG index strategy

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 2 AUG 2022
... track the performance of sector leaders based on relevant key ESG issues that are aligned with SASB's Materiality Map." "MSCI ESG and Climate Indexes are designed to provide institutional investors with effective and transparent tools to facilitate integrating ...

Ethical fund manager hires

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2020
An ethical fund manager with more than $1 billion in funds under management has hired from MSCI ESG Research and Vanguard to expand its investment team. U Ethical has added Desiree Lucchese as ethics and impact manager and Rachel O'Connor as portfolio ...

ESG performing positively: MSCI

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2020
... only existed for a few months, MSCI said it observed a positive performance contribution from ESG across four select MSCI ESG indexes during Q1 2020. "These results were consistent with longer-term performance," MSCI said. "As the coronavirus pandemic ...

BlackRock partners with $23bn super fund

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 5 AUG 2019
... screen excludes companies with industry ties to fossil fuels, while sovereign and government-related issuers with an MSCI ESG government rating below BB are also out, "in an effort to extend ESG considerations beyond typical corporate risk," according ...

VanEck changes tack on ETF

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUL 2019
... through positive and negative screens. It excludes companies based on MSCI flags on ESG controversies and companies with a MSCI ESG rating of lower than 'A'. It also screens out companies with certain business activities (adult entertainment ...

NZ Super dumps guns

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2019
... Framework required decisions about ethical exclusions to consider New Zealand law. NZ Super said the Guardians worked with MSCI ESG Research to identify companies captured under the new exclusion, and will divest $19 million of investments in: American ...

BlackRock launches Australian bond fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAR 2019
... organisms and fossil fuel reserves using MSCI's SRI index Then the issuer weights are tilted based on the current MSCI ESG Rating, as well as its MSCI ESG Rating momentum. "We have reached an inflection point in sustainable investing. ESG has come ...

ESG bond portfolio opens to Aussie investors

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 7 AUG 2018
... fixed income allocation," he said. "The fund will be distinctive in that we will report ESG exposures transparently using MSCI ESG ratings." The managers will use a propriety suite of analytical tools called CaTo to integrate risk factors into the investment ...

New Zealand super goes green

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 15 AUG 2017
... based on a bespoke carbon measurement methodology for listed equities developed by the Guardians in conjunction with MSCI ESG Research - which is also providing independent carbon data and company ratings. The fund will continue to hold some companies ...

UniSuper brings investment option in-house

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 7 AUG 2017
... important shift management of the Global Environmental Opportunities (GEO) investment option will be internalised and the MSCI ESG Research Sustainable Impact Metrics database adopted for portfolio construction. The GEO fund will seek to maintain an ...
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