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LGS adapts investment screens for Sustainable Australian Shares option

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 AUG 2016  |  NEWS
... number of serious repeated infringements. As a result, some financial services companies have been excluded from the SAS portfolio. "The risks for investors as a result of poor conduct in the financial services sector include the potential of legal action ...

AXA IM SmartBeta fund receives local recognition

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 AUG 2016  |  NEWS
... return and improved drawdown profile," Lacey said. "We find that the sustainability element and the vanilla SmartBeta portfolio characteristics come together well - both approaches are focused on long term sensible beta harvesting." See Also: AXA IM ...

NAB Asset Servicing launches ESG reporting service

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 AUG 2016  |  NEWS
... Servicing. "The ESG reporting capability offers clients new ways in providing insight and 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 ...

Newpin Social Benefit Bond returns 12.15% in third year

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 AUG 2016  |  NEWS
... Increasingly investors today want to see financial as well as social (and/or environmental returns) as part of their portfolio and SBBs are an attractive way of achieving that." See Also: Newpin Social Benefit Bond returns 8.9% in second year

Banks, fund managers developing ethical cash products

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2016  |  NEWS
... and their members. It has more than AU$990 million in assets under management and has three portfolios - the UCA Cash Portfolio, the UCA Growth Portfolio and the UCA Australian Equities Portfolio. It also operates the Uniting Growth Fund, the Development ...

TH Real Estate hires Abigail Dean as head of sustainability

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 AUG 2016  |  NEWS
... TH Real Estate's business to minimise the risk of accelerated depreciation and early obsolescence within the firm's portfolio of real estate assets, the investment manager said. Dean is an active member of the Better Buildings Partnership and sits on ...

CEFC reports $837m in commitments for 2015-2016

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2016  |  NEWS
... million Westpac Climate Bond. Proceeds of the Westpac Climate Bond will finance a AU$1b Australian-based clean energy portfolio, including energy efficient commercial buildings, CEFC noted. Through this financial year, the CEFC's investment mandate was ...

Treasury Corporation of Victoria issues green bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUL 2016  |  NEWS
... dollar green bond by an Australian government authority. The 1.75% 27 July 20121 TCV Green Bond proceeds will fund a portfolio of state investments in energy efficiency, reneable energy, public transport and water treatment, TCV said. The But is rated ...

Responsible investment AUM tops AU$630 billion: RIAA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUL 2016  |  NEWS
... the market. We're in a different place than we were five to 10 years ago, in the way that you can create a balanced portfolio in every asset class and every asset style." Within the core responsible investment basket, RIAA found that the largest portion ...

Climate-aligned bonds total US$694bn: Climate Bonds Initiative

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUL 2016  |  NEWS
The climate-aligned bond universe is US$694 billion, according to the Climate Bonds Initiative Bonds and Climate Change: The State of the Market in 2016 (SotM). The climate-aligned bond universe has grown 16% or US$96 billion from 2015, with unlabelled ...