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FTSE Russell expands ESG research

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2018
FTSE Russell formed a global ESG research partnership with Sustainalytics, as investors demand ESG integration within their strategies. The partnership will allow the firm to develop a new set of ESG indexes, with Sustainalytics' ESG risk ratings research ...

US investment giant acquires global fund manager

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUL 2018
One of the largest investment managers in the US now owns a 60% interest in a global ESG-focused fund manager with operations in Australia. Federated Investors, a $534 billion fund manager and SMA provider, has paid $440 million for a majority stake ...

CFS partners to create ESG fixed income fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAY 2018
... $15 billion of low energy carbon projects by 2025. Last month, $738 billion asset manager Dimensional launched a new global ESG fund. Dimensional already ran an existing sustainability strategy, but the fund was the manager's first to invest in bonds ...

Dimensional launches global ESG bond fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 12 APR 2018
The $738 billion asset manager has launched a new global ESG fund that will invest in fixed interest bonds of companies that shun tobacco, alcohol and gambling, among a variety of ESG factors. Dimensional already runs an existing sustainability strategy ...

ESG adoption grows, returns follow

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 21 APR 2017
... respondents from the region seeing improved returns and 74% using ESG screens to mitigate instability. SSGA head of global ESG business Chris McKnett said there's a collective shift in the institutional investment world causing asset owners and managers ...

CSC contributes to global ESG think tank

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 23 DEC 2016
... asset owners," the statement said. The statement said it acknowledges climate change as most significant topic in the global ESG market; and values gender diversity as a way of enhancing the diversity of ideas in the corporate boards of companies and ...

Sustainalytics sets up shop in Australia

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 18 FEB 2016
... enables the firm to better serve its... clients in the highly dynamic Australian market." "I believe Sustainalytics global ESG and corporate governance research offerings can successfully support investment strategies of Australian investors and broaden ...

ESG buck stops with super

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2008
... understand key issues." Indeed, Bernie Connolly, UBS Wealth Management director, said the firm broadly had a solid global ESG capabilities but the driver needed to come from higher up the supply chain. "We tap into the resources in UBS which are offshore ...
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