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NAB Asset Servicing launches ESG reporting service

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 AUG 2016  |  NEWS
... monitoring of their investment portfolio exposures. NAB Asset Servicing sees this sort of reporting service as being of value to super funds and investment managers, Bradnam said. "This is just another way we are continuing to work to support our clients ...

Banks, fund managers developing ethical cash products

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2016  |  NEWS
Investment managers and banks are focusing their attention on cash as an asset class that can be developed into responsible investment and ethical cash products, driven by retail demand and core business strategy. Sasha Courville, head of social innovation ...

NZ Super earns A+ in UNPRI benchmark report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2016  |  NEWS
The NZ Super Fund has received an A+ in its 2016 benchmarking report by the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (UNPRI). The fund received an A+ for overall strategy and governance, well ahead of the median score of B for UNPRI signatories. ...

First State Super's Brandweiner jumps to LeapFrog Investments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2016  |  NEWS
First State Super Chief Investment Officer Richard Brandweiner is leaving the superannuation fund to join LeapFrog Investments. Richard Brandweiner, CIO, First State Super Brandweiner has been CIO of the AU$71 billion First State Super since 2013. He ...

QIC invests $800m in Powering Australian Renewables Fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2016  |  NEWS
QIC has invested AU$800 million alongside AGL Energy in the Powering Australian Renewables Fund (PARF), a AU$2 -3 billion large-scale renewable energy fund. AGL's Broken Hill Solar Plant (photo courtesy AGL) QIC has invested the AU$800 million on behalf ...

New Zealand responsible investment tops NZ$78bn: RIAA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUL 2016  |  NEWS
... engagement and voting, and sustainability themed investments. The report is based on data supplied by 18 asset managers, super funds, financial advisers, and community investment managers through a data collection survey, consisting of the value of assets ...

Cbus signs Global Statement on Investor Obligations and Duties

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUL 2016  |  NEWS
Cbus Super has signed the Global Statement on Investor Obligations and Duties, which explicitly links consideration of environmental, social and governance issues to fiduciary responsibility. The Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), UNEP FI ...

Investors seeking ESG themes, factors in fixed income portfolios

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUL 2016  |  NEWS
There is continued interest in integrating environmental, social and governance (ESG) considerations into fixed income portfolios and funds on the retail and institutional side in Australia, but fund managers find that while retail investment in ESG ...

90% of ASX200 companies report on sustainability: ACSI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUL 2016  |  NEWS
Ninety percent of ASX200 companies provided some level of reporting on sustainability factors in their 2015 public disclosures, according to the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors' (ACSI) annual review of corporate sustainability disclosure. ...

Podcast: Australia's Affordable Housing Solution

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUN 2016  |  NEWS
The impact of Australia's lack of affordable housing is far reaching - low-income earners are being pushed to the fringes of cities, with some households paying up to 85 per cent of their income on rent. But according to experts, solving the affordable ...