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Do founder-led listed companies outperform on E, S and G metrics?

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... correlation, said Guillaume Mascotto, vice president, head of ESG and investment stewardship for American Century Investments. Mascotto said that American Century Investments does research companies with controlling shareholders and companies that are ...

Investing in healthcare yields financial, social returns: American Century

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... to positive impacts aligned to the Sustainable Development Goals, according to global fund manager American Century Investments. The American Century Health Care Impact Equity fund, managed by Michael Li, seeks quality stocks by incorporating acceleration ...

HSBC, Pollination Group to launch natural capital asset manager

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... on identifying a large pipeline of assets that exist," Wilder said. "The ones that we have identified are will be investments that have a normal return. We will be enhancing that return through ensuring there are natural capital values that come with ...

Online investors applying ESG criteria: Investment Trends

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... represents a significant shift from last year (51%)." A quarter of investors - 24% - said they had bought or sold investments based on environmental impact, 17% said they had taken action after considering ethical and corporate governance factors, and ...

Investors to increase climate-linked passive investments: DWS Group

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... year, finds that 26% of respondents say they commit more than 15% of their passively invested funds to climate-linked investments, but 56% say they have no allocation at all as part of their passive investments. The study was conducted by consultants ...

CEFC invests in Charter Hall Prime Industrial Fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... million. Other investors include Hong Kong investment group Horizons Ventures, a VC fund backed by Li Ka-shing with early investments in companies like Spotify and Zoom, Grok Ventures, the private investment fund of Mike and Annie Cannon-Brookes and ...

ESG superannuation funds outperform in torrid year: Rainmaker

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... grew 76% pa from $325 million to $1.8 billion." The ESG ETP sector is has five participants - BetaShares, Russell Investments, Vanguard, VanEck, and InvestSMART. UBS Asset Management withdrew from the Australian ETP market in May 2020.

BNP Paribas issues $140m in equity-linked green bonds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... greater pool of capital, a powerful incentive to accelerate decarbonisation efforts." Liza McDonald, Head of Responsible Investments at First State Super, linked their allocation to the product as being in line with their cvommtiment to taking "real ...

Nuveen secures $150m in commitments for Global Impact Strategy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... us, it's a continued belief in this." The Global Impact strategy team at Nuveen will pursue direct private equity investments across both themes, the fund said. The strategy targets strong risk adjusted private equity returns and target growth stage ...

UK pension fund to divest half its portfolio

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... carbon footprint by the equivalent of taking 200,000 cars off the road, the fund said. The divestment includes its investments in emerging market equities and represents $2.17 billion being removed from the world's largest carbon emitters, NEST said. ...