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Accelerating digitalisation an investment opportunity: Janus Henderson

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
... productivity and innovation. As a result, one of our 10 themes is 'Knowledge and Technology', and this has the largest portfolio percentage theme allocation at 33.6%." Janus Henderson invests in resilient growth companies that can navigate periods of ...

Collaboration a competitive advantage for super on ESG: NGS Super

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
... of mid-2019." NGS Super has also moved to provide live disclosure of proxy voting as well as mapping their equities portfolio against the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), King said. "That was a really interesting exercise," she said. "We did it ...

First State Super joins Tobacco Free Finance Pledge Stamp

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
First State Super has joined the Tobacco Free Finance Pledge Stamp. Dr Bronwyn King, founder, Tobacco-Free Investment Initiative The Pledge Stamp is an initiative of not-for-profit Tobacco Free Portfolios and it showcases leading financial organisations ...

OHS, social license to operate identified as infrastructure risks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
... essential and have been working through the pandemic - and the fulfilment of social license to operate. Rebecca Myatt, portfolio manager for First Sentier's Sustainable Listed Infrastructure Fund Investors have identified occupational health and safety ...

ESG focus on climate change, income inequality: T. Rowe Price

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
Climate change risks will impact virtually all of T. Rowe Price's portfolio holdings to various degrees, leading the global fund manager to factor climate change into analysts' evaluation. Maria Elena Drew, Director of Research, Responsible Investing ...

U Ethical on resilience, engagement during COVID-19

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
... U Ethical moved to exclude fossil fuel from their portfolios, last year, Fernie noted, which partially sheltered the portfolio from oil stocks underperformance. "Like a lot of other ESG and ethical managers, we hold higher weights in sectors such as ...

IFM Investors report carbon emission reduction in Australian infrastructure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
IFM investors is reporting a nearly 8% reduction in carbon emissions across its Australian infrastructure portfolio in the 2018/2018 financial year. Chris Newton, head of responsible investing at IFM Investors. The IFM Investors' FY 2019 Australian ...

Increased integration of ESG in securities lending: State Street Associates

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
... with high quality collateral. Beneficial owners use securities lending programs to generate incremental income to a portfolio, and securities lending can be used as part of various strategies, including shorting, hedging and arbitrage. The State Street ...

JANA providing services to retail sector, eyes retail ESG services

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
... more independent license approaches. We are also seeing movement towards managed accounts, specifically aspects such as portfolio construction efficiency. Add to that the governance overlay, which is becoming more significant across the whole industry ...

Identifying potential risks of COVID-19 and modern slavery in supply chain

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
... a relationship between modern slavery exposures and COVID-19. "Organisations are providing us with their investment portfolio if they're investors or their spending data if they're a company," said Kimberly Randle, executive director, FairSupply. ...