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Asset owners, managers see climate change as material risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 AUG 2013  |  NEWS
... putting their investments to work, in terms of fund policy implementation and flow through investment strategy to asset allocation." Engagement by asset owners and asset managers with policy makes and companies are central tools for addressing climate ...

Christian Super invests in microinsurance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... know that it resonates with our members." Christian Super's commitment comes out of its alternative investment asset allocation, Murphy said. "The reason we picked LeapFrog is two-fold," said Simba Marekera, policy analyst at Christian Super. "One was ...

Local Government Super adopts private equity ESG framework

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... partners to disclose the information limited partners seek for their ESG objectives. The nearly AU$7bn LGS has an asset allocation range for private equity as 5-15% of its total portfolio. According to its 2011-2012 annual report, private equity represented ...

Q&A with Michael Walsh, UCA Funds Management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... been a great time to do that. Nor have we been involved in property trusts in recent years. Those have been good asset allocation decisions.You can get international exposure through Australian companies that manage their own currency risk and they still ...

Unlisted alt assets as vehicle for accessing sustainability

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... building on its own research, including their 2011 report, Climate Change Scenarios - Implications for Strategic Asset Allocation, which predicted that institutional investors could be hit by economic costs of carbon emission policies up to US$8tr by ...

Resource constraints could render pension funds insolvent

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... carbon emission policies up to US$8tr by 2030, according to Climate Change Scenarios - Implications for Strategic Asset Allocation. If the international community's mitigation response to carbon emission is strong, the industries that would be worse ...

PRI work stream to address systemic sustainability barriers

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... including benchmarks, performance periods, portfolio turnover and fee structures Portfolio structure and strategic asset allocation - to explore new approaches in the light of the financial crisis, including links to sustainability issues Externalities ...

Developing methods for monitoring impact investment returns

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... extent so that we know that just as other funds are watching the performance of other assets in the traditional asset allocation, so we have trusted funds that are watching the fund of performance on environ and social performance. We won't stop performing ...

NAB Asset Servicing developing ESG overlay tool

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... transparency. At the moment, FundEdge provides reporting solutions including counterparty exposure reporting and asset allocation analysis reporting, but NAB Asset Servicing has said that it is planning to offer an ESG reporting service as part of FundEdge ...

Responsible investment in The Asian Century

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... plus," Dougherty said. "What the institutions struggle with is that 10 year hedge fix - by doing a different asset allocation, can institutions step up in sufficient scale to make different types of investments than they have in the past as a hedge to ...