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MSCI launch MSCI ACWI Sustainable Impact Index

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 APR 2016  |  NEWS
... Managing Director and Global Head of ESG Research. "To date, impact investing has largely been limited to small-scale, private equity strategies but there has not been a tool aiming to measure the extent to which exchange listed companies are involved ...

Foresight Group hires Gary Sofarelli for Sydney office

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 APR 2016  |  NEWS
Infrastructure investment manager and private equity manager Foresight Group has hired Gary Sofarelli to lead its Sydney-based office. The Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) provided an AU$100 million cornerstone investment to the Foresight Group's ...

Impact Investing Australia launches inaugural Australian survey

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAR 2016  |  NEWS
... Currently, investors allocate to real assets, pay for performance instruments such as social benefit bonds, and private equity or venture capital, while investors not yet active in impact investing have no consistent preference for investment types. ...

RIAA certifies three super funds as responsible investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAR 2016  |  NEWS
... the RIAA Certification Program. The products cover equities funds, fixed interest funds, ETFs, banking products, private equity, property, impact investments as well as 20 certified financial advisers. "We are very pleased to receive this independent ...

Impact investing key trend for 2016: AXA IM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 FEB 2016  |  NEWS
... will be across asset classes," Christensen said. "Impact investment is something that doesn't just go into the private equity sphere, but becomes a common way to measure something like a carbon footprint, and now, increasingly, looking at the water resource ...

NZ Super publishes white paper on ESG beliefs

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 NOV 2015  |  NEWS
... investment for the fund, O'Connor said. "We were already integrating it at a detailed level, with due diligence, with private equity, in our timber/forestry holdings, with our external fund managers, and at home in our active equity portfolios," she ...

Q&A: Richard Brandweiner, CIO First State Super

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2015  |  NEWS
... and ideas in Australia, where before there was a fundamental gap between very early stage investing and proper private equity: there was a gap where that wasn't being fulfilled by Australian superannuation funds and it was resulting in pushing talent ...

Australia/NZ property companies, funds outperform: GRESB

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2015  |  NEWS
... 47 participants, compared to 44 in 2014, representing assets of US$157 billion and covering 1,353 assets. On the private equity side, the number of reporting entities is 35, up from 34 in 2014, GRESB said in the report. Australian/NZ funds and companies ...

NZ Super Fund invests in View Glass

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 AUG 2015  |  NEWS
... recycling company LanzaTech. In New Zealand, the fund invests in expansion capital via investment managers Pencarrow Private Equity, Pioneer Capital Partners and Waterman Capital. Around 1.5% of the NZ$29.6 billion NZ Super Fund is invested in expansion ...

Super boards can add value with ESG focus: BNP Paribas

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2015  |  NEWS
... specialist for risk recording that's going to come out? To me, it mirrors the evolution as funds are going into private equity and infrastructure - it's a whole evolution of the more specialised reporting that gets asked for, and then that become a new ...