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Nikko AM, ARK Investment Management launch innovation fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2018  |  NEWS
... Innovation Fund. It's a global equity portfolio solely focused on disruptive innovation, utilising ARK's disruptive innovation strategy; "investing in the leaders, enablers and beneficiaries of innovations centred on robotics, automation, energy storage ...

Australian National University selects Aberdeen Standard Investments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2018  |  NEWS
... National University (ANU) Endowment Fund has selected Aberdeen Standard Investments to manage an Australian fixed income strategy that integrates ESG. The strategy invests in active Australian fixed income with an ESG overlay - negative screening of ...

Local Government Super selects PIMCO for fixed income ESG mandate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 AUG 2018  |  NEWS
... continue our long standing relationship with PIMCO," said Craig Turnbull, LGS chief investment officer. "PIMCO's investment strategy perfectly complements our commitment to earning long-term sustainable returns for our members while actively managing ...

Vanguard Australia licenses FTSE Russell index for ESG-related products

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 AUG 2018  |  NEWS
... selected our index for its latest ESG index fund and ETF," said Evan Ong, managing director, Asia ETP and listed derivatives strategy and business development, FTSE Russell. "This new values-based index forms part of the FTSE Global Choice Index Series ...

Man Group to augment responsible investment, stewardship activities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 AUG 2018  |  NEWS
... management. Dual roles are pragmatic and they have helpful us rebase expectation around how we approach ESG at the fund strategy level. It's helped us expedite our progress." Mitchell will also act as adviser on funds where ESG, impact investing, engagement ...

US activists target banks over finance to for-profit prisons, detention centres

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2018  |  NEWS
... said. "We're doing the research on that topic because we have done the research and we're being helpful in figuring out strategy behind the campaign." Many of the organisations that are in the Families Belong Together coalition have been working on the ...

Q&A: Yolanda Beattie, Mercer, talks Future IM/Pact initiative

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2018  |  NEWS
... networking events, and all that kind of stuff. And then the third piece is how we wrap it all up in a communications strategy, and that starts with the website, so we have this website where we're housing all this content we'll grow that content over ...

Man Group appoints Jason Mitchell co-head of responsible investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2018  |  NEWS
... advisor on funds where ESG, impact investing, engagement and norms-based screening represent a principal feature of the strategy. Steven Desmyter, the other co-head of responsible investment, will continue to oversee the firm's client service and corporate-level ...

GRI, UN Global Compact release guide to measure, report on SDGs

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2018  |  NEWS
The Global Reporting Initiative and the United Nations Global Compact have released a practical guide to assist companies in better measure and report on their impacts on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The new publication, Integrating the ...

ACCR, CAER study gender pay gap at ASX100 companies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUL 2018  |  NEWS
More than a quarter of ASX100 companies do not have a remuneration policy that covers gender pay equity, although the vast majority have conducted analysis to determination if they are any remuneration gaps between men and women, according to a new ...