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Aust/NZ investors committed to ESG in alt investments: Mercer

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 APR 2015  |  NEWS
... (ESG) considerations in their alternative asset investments, according to Mercer. Helga Birgden, head of responsible investing for Asia Pacific at Mercer Mercer and LGT Capital Partners recently conducted a global survey of institutional investors to ...

RobecoSAM launches 2015 assessment for DJSI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 APR 2015  |  NEWS
... financially material sustainability issues that impact their bottom line," said Daniel Wild, head of sustainability investing (SI) research and development, RobecoSAM. "Sustainability issues dramatically change companies' competitive environment. Ultimately ...

Inflection Point CM to launch Carbon Zero fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
... Management The Carbon Zero Global Equities Fund will incorporate Inflection Point Capital Management's Strategically-Aware Investing principles, and will invest in a portfolio of companies that have a net zero carbon emissions output, said Matthew Kiernan ...

Social, regulatory risks to growing payday lending market

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
... lending facilities as a concern. "Increasingly, organisations including Cash Converters, Money3 and now Nimble are heavily investing in online payday lending," Mooney noted. "The issue I have with that is that we're moving to a new realm of lending online. ...

NAB launches Impact Investment Grant Program

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
... necessary investment to make them succeed." The Impact Investment Grants Program will be jointly managed with Impact Investing Australia, and was co-designed with The Difference Incubator. Grants of up to AU$100,000 are available. "Our intention is that ...

Teachers Mutual Bank, NAB on "most ethical" list

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
... leadership, innovation and reputation, 10%. Recently, Teachers Mutual Bank was recognized by the London Benchmarking Group for investing 4.55% of pre-tax profits in community programs, which is 12.6 times the financial services industry average in Australia ...

Ethical Advisers' Co-operative AUM reach nearly $1 billion

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
... she said. "That's one area where clients want to be reflecting their values. Increasingly, we're also seeing direct investing in investments, because people are disillusioned with public sector funds and industry fund that may have an ethical fund option ...

AXA IM ESG SmartBeta fund 5% stronger than benchmark

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
... is positive, we will talk about it." See Also: AXA IM launches ESG SmartBeta fund in Australia AXA IM to offer impact investing fund of funds

Companies, investors cite overlapping materiality: GRI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
... analysis of the most material issues provides for both companies and investors," said Daniel Wild, head of sustainability investing research and development at RobecoSAM. "We hope this joint publication with GRI will lead to additional discussion and ...

AMP Capital to advise GII on renewable infrastructure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
... acquiring high quality renewable energy infrastructure in Japan, and will provide ongoing advice. "AMP Capital has been investing in infrastructure globally for the past 25 years and we are delighted to extend our relationship with MUTB as an adviser ...