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National RE Investment & Management Firm Sets New Bar on How to Develop Multi-Family Sustainably and Profitably

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Thursday, April 13, 2023

NEW YORK and WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. , April 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Dermot Company, a national real estate investment and management company with an extensive portfolio of multifamily properties spanning from New York to Florida, just received the prestigious 'PREA Emerging Manager ESG' award. The award was announced at the 2023 PREA Spring Conference. The annual executive-level thought leadership event focuses on institutional investments portfolio in real estate, and The ESG program and awards are produced by the Pension Real Estate Association (PREA). 

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  • The award was announced at the 2023 PREA Spring Conference.
  • The annual executive-level thought leadership event focuses on institutional investments portfolio in real estate, and The ESG program and awards are produced by the Pension Real Estate Association (PREA).
  • Dermot considers ESG initiatives to be an integral part of its business model and a key tenet of its brand promise.
  • "We are proud to be recognized for being at the forefront of ESG within real estate investing; thank you to the Pension Real Estate Association for this honor.

SDI AOP launches forward-looking dataset that assesses which companies are actively developing solutions needed to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

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Thursday, December 1, 2022

AMSTERDAM, Dec. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Sustainable Development Investments Asset Owner Platform (SDI AOP) and Qontigo, its exclusive distribution partner, have announced the launch of the SDI Innovation Outlook. The new dataset provides forward looking information, by analyzing the alignment of companies' patent portfolios with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

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  • The new dataset provides forward looking information, by analyzing the alignment of companies' patent portfolios with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
  • The SDI Innovation Outlook is a new forward-looking SDI dataset, building on the SDI Classification dataset which assesses companies' current product and service-related contributions to the SDGs based predominantly on revenues.
  • The Sustainable Development Investments Asset Owner Platform (SDI AOP) is responsible for the development and maintenance of the SDI taxonomy and guidance, SDI definitions and SDI classification methodology ( www.sdi-aop.org ).
  • The SDI AOP consists of asset owners who invest in solutions which contribute to the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

SDI AOP introduces significant enhancements to dataset for investing in the UN's Sustainable Development Goals

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Thursday, September 1, 2022

AMSTERDAM, Sept. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Sustainable Development Investments Asset Owner Platform (SDI AOP) and Qontigo, its exclusive distribution partner, have announced significant enhancements to the SDI AOP dataset as part of the August 2022 data release. The data analyzes corporate alignment with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

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  • As this community is growing, we are integrating their feedback into the development of the data," explained James Leaton, Research Director, SDI AOP.
  • The Sustainable Development Investments Asset Owner Platform (SDI AOP) is responsible for the development and maintenance of the SDI taxonomy and guidance, SDI definitions and SDI classification methodology ( www.sdi-aop.org ).
  • The SDI AOP consists of asset owners who invest in solutions which contribute to the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
  • The SDI AOP uses revenues associated with a company's products and services as starting points to classify which companies qualify as SDI.

Grafine Partners Bolsters Team with Appointment of Christine Winslow as Managing Director

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Tuesday, May 17, 2022

NEW YORK, May 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Grafine Partners , an alternative asset management firm that takes a patient and creative approach to investing private capital, today announced that Christine Winslow has joined as Managing Director.

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  • NEW YORK, May 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Grafine Partners , an alternative asset management firm that takes a patient and creative approach to investing private capital, today announced that Christine Winslow has joined as Managing Director.
  • Ms. Winslow joins from pension fund asset manager PGGM, where she was Director of Private Equity.
  • "Christine is a welcome addition to our firm," said Elizabeth Weymouth, Founder & Managing Partner of Grafine.
  • "Elizabeth has created an incredible culture for the team at Grafine Partners, while building an innovative model to providing investment solutions," said Ms. Winslow.

NN Investment Partners selects SDI Asset Owner Platform to further enhance SDG insights and SFDR reporting

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Wednesday, March 9, 2022

AMSTERDAM, March 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Sustainable Development Investments Asset Owner Platform (SDI AOP) and Qontigo, its exclusive distribution partner, have announced that asset manager NN Investment Partners (NN IP) has subscribed to the SDI AOP dataset, which allows users to enhance their investment decision making with data on the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Key Points: 
  • AMSTERDAM, March 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Sustainable Development Investments Asset Owner Platform (SDI AOP) and Qontigo, its exclusive distribution partner, have announced that asset manager NN Investment Partners (NN IP) has subscribed to the SDI AOP dataset, which allows users to enhance their investment decision making with data on the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
  • In the future, the asset manager plans to expand on its existing client reporting capabilities using the data to optimize reporting on SDG exposures on its strategies.
  • The Sustainable Development Investments Asset Owner Platform (SDI AOP) is responsible for the development and maintenance of the SDI taxonomy and guidance, SDI definitions and SDI classification methodology ( www.sdi-aop.org ).
  • NN Investment Partners is the asset manager of NN Group N.V., a publicly traded company listed on Euronext Amsterdam.

SASB Investor Advisory Group Announces New Chair and Vice Chair

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Thursday, March 3, 2022

SAN FRANCISCO/LONDON, March 03, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Value Reporting Foundation today announced the appointments of a new chair and vice chair to the SASB Investor Advisory Group (IAG), a group of leading asset owners and managers committed to improving sustainability-related disclosures to investors.

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  • SAN FRANCISCO/LONDON, March 03, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Value Reporting Foundation today announced the appointments of a new chair and vice chair to the SASB Investor Advisory Group (IAG), a group of leading asset owners and managers committed to improving sustainability-related disclosures to investors.
  • Richard Manley, Managing Director, Head of Sustainable Investing at CPP Investments will become Chair and Carine Smith Ihenacho, Chief Governance and Compliance Officer at Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM) will become Vice Chair.
  • The SASB Investor Advisory Group which has grown to more than 60 members from 12 markets and >$52T in assets has been advocating for improved ESG disclosure and the use of SASB Standards since it was formed in 2016.
  • The SASB Investor Advisory Group has played an essential role in demonstrating investor demand for high-quality ESG information and shaping the SASB Standards to provide decision-useful information to the capital markets.

7 Chord is the First AI Pricing Vendor to Integrate Glimpse Markets' Bond Transaction Data

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Tuesday, November 30, 2021

Similarly, the $65 trillion global Sovereign, Supranationals, and Agency market is dogged by inefficiencies due to the lack of a consolidated transaction data source.

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  • Similarly, the $65 trillion global Sovereign, Supranationals, and Agency market is dogged by inefficiencies due to the lack of a consolidated transaction data source.
  • "BondDroid, just like many real-time AI pricing engines, requires high-quality training data to produce predictive bond prices and systematically evaluate their accuracy.
  • Glimpse plans to officially launch its buy-side data sharing platform in Q1 2022 with at least 12 asset managers who will actively contribute transaction data.
  • Glimpse is a buy-side data pooling platform for institutional bond traders, focused initially on the European investment grade and high yield credit markets.

Private Equity Industry Establishes First-Ever LP and GP Partnership to Standardize ESG Reporting

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Thursday, September 30, 2021

The groups objective is to streamline the private equity industrys historically fragmented approach to collecting and reporting ESG data in order to create a critical mass of material, performance-based, comparable ESG data from portfolio companies.

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  • The groups objective is to streamline the private equity industrys historically fragmented approach to collecting and reporting ESG data in order to create a critical mass of material, performance-based, comparable ESG data from portfolio companies.
  • This collaboration is intended to be a long-term mechanism to increase the quality, availability, and comparability of ESG data in private markets.
  • PGGM, as a member of the ESG Metrics Steering Group, will play a role in driving the private equity market towards making more and better ESG disclosures.
  • The effort encourages private equity industry stakeholders to work together to gather better, decision-useful ESG data in order to generate deeper insight into ESG factors and their relationship to financial outcomes, and, ultimately, to drive greater progress on critical ESG issues.

Bloomberg Introduces New Fixed Income Pre-Trade TCA Model

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Wednesday, September 22, 2021

The model has been calibrated based on five years of historical trade information, proprietary to Bloomberg taking a variety of factors into account.

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  • The model has been calibrated based on five years of historical trade information, proprietary to Bloomberg taking a variety of factors into account.
  • PGGM, a Bloomberg Transaction Cost Analysis (BTCA) solution customer, partnered with Bloomberg's trading quant research team to beta test Bloomberg's new pre-trade TCA function.
  • "Reliable pre-trade data for fixed-income is scarce, which makes price discovery and proving best execution a challenge," explained Jan-Theo Varkevisser, Global Head of Fixed Income Trading, PGGM.
  • "While trade cost models have become the norm in equities, developing a native model in fixed income markets is an exciting step forward to providing bond traders and portfolio managers with greater pre-trade intelligence."