More ESG news – Page 325
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Schroder Pensions adds to DC multi-manager funds
UK - Schroder Pensions has added five new funds to its defined contribution (DC) multi-manager platform , three from Scottish fund manager Baillie Gifford and two from Morley....
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Companies failing on governance, says NAPF
Only 19% of Britain’s top companies meet investors’ highest corporate governance expectations, according to a survey carried out by the UK National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF)....
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SRI principles aren't creating specialist mandates
UK – The investment industry has seen few specialist socially responsible investment (SRI) mandates, despite many pension trustees incorporating corporate social responsibility (CSR) policies into their statements of investment principles, says the Industrial Society (IS)....
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EC moves towards SRI standardisation welcomed
EUROPE – European Commission moves towards standardisation of SRI investment principles have been welcomed by Claudia Kruse, a leading UK SRI researcher, with a caveat that their implementation may not be so easy....
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Hermes expands management team post Myners
UK - Hermes Focus Asset Management (HFAM), one of the UK’s largest institutional fund managers, has expanded and reorganised its management team in response to calls in the UK Myners report for greater intervention by shareholders in investee companies....
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Mercer: Government will legislate for trustees
UK – The government will legislate against pension fund trustees taking decisions unless they are ‘familiar’ with the issues concerned - as laid out in the Myners report, claims consultancy firm, William M. Mercer....
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SSgA and Friends Ivory in SRI index funds venture
UK – State Street Global Advisors (SSgA) and Friends Ivory & Sime (FI&S) have announced a joint venture project to provide index-tracking funds with a specific socially responsible investment (SRI) overlay to UK pension funds....
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FTSE4Good in first index rebalancing
GLOBAL – FTSE has carried out the first review of its fledgling SRI index FTSE4Good, deleting four firms from the FTSE4Good Global 100 index, including Germany’s Hypo Vereinsbank and Compaq Computers of the US.
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Missed opportunity on stakeholder SRI, says report
UK – A great opportunity has been missed for Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) to take its place in the new stakeholder pensions arena – to become legally applicable next month, according to research commissioned by Friends Provident among 200 small to medium sized UK companies.....
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UCW Pensions selects Rothschild for fund assets
UK – The £32m (e52m) UCW Pensions 2001 scheme, which provides pension benefits to sections of the employees and former employees of the Communication Workers Union, has selected Rothschild Asset Management (RAM) to manage a multi-asset mandate for its entire assets....
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Europe leads the way on SRI, says Cerulli
EUROPE - Europe still lags the US by a long way in the number of institutional portfolios being screened for socially responsible investment (SRI) criteria, with only $28bn worth of assets getting the SRI treatment on the continent compared to $1,336bn in the US, according to the latest figures to ...
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Jupiter launches new Europe/UK SICAV
UK/EUROPE – Jupiter International Group has launched a new Luxembourg based SICAV – the Jupiter Global Active Fund for UK and European institutional investors and discretionary fund managers....
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Pilling to head up Morley pooled funds team
UK – Lyndsey Pilling has joined Morley Pooled Pensions as manager of the firm’s pooled funds team....
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Hermes lands £220m passive brief from Croydon
UK – The £400m (e645m) London Borough of Croydon pension fund has chosen Hermes Investment Management to run a £220 million FTSE 100 indexed portfolio following a head to head with two other investment management firms....
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Ross Goobey steps down at Hermes
UK – Pensions industry stalwart Alistair Ross Goobey is to step down from his position as chief investment officer at Hermes Pensions Management, the fund management arm of the BT pension scheme, at the end of the year....
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Altink to head Mellon's European corporate affairs
UK/EUROPE – Jan Altink has been appointed director of corporate affairs for Europe by Pittsburgh based Mellon Financial Corporation.
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Hermes draws the line on company share options
UK – Pension fund manager Hermes Investment Management has drawn a clear line on the debate over executive share option remuneration, by announcing that it will not support resolutions put to shareholders for executive share options re-pricing in any of its 3000 worldwide public company investments....
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Huerta to lead Spanish institutional sales at R&SA
Victoria Huerta has been appointed as sales director of retail and institutional funds at the Madrid office of Royal & Sun Alliance Investments Luxembourg.... And all the week's major people moves....
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UK finance directors pledge support for Myners
UK – Nearly two thirds (64%) of finance directors of some of the largest UK companies ‘broadly’ support the proposals of the Myners report on institutional investment in the UK, according to a survey commissioned by Barclays Global Investors (BGI)....
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Eurosif launched to promote SRI in Europe
EUROPE – The European social investment forum is currently looking for a project manager to launch its campaign in creating a pan-European organisation for socially responsible investment (SRI).
