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PRI working group calls for sustainable palm oil commitments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
A coalition of signatories to the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) - including Australian superannuation funds - have called on palm oil companies to comply with the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) Principles and Criteria. The signatories ...

RIAA: Responsible Investment portfolios continue to grow

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
Responsible investment portfolios in Australia managed AU$152 billion or 16% of total assets under management last year, and core responsible investment funds are outperforming the benchmark of mainstream funds, according to the Responsible Investment ...

Impax Asset Management makes case for fossil fuel divestment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... energy investments. Impax used the MSCI World Index as the baseline and then presented four alternative approaches to portfolio construction, built around the theory of fossil fuel divestment. In the first scenario, the fossil free portfolio, Impax removed ...

HSBC finds US$364 billion in climate themed bond issuance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... climate protection," said Loffler in a statement accompanying the report. "A large part of institutional investors' portfolio is composed of bonds. Our needs are for investment-grade, liquid and benchmarked bonds. We're cheered to see the report suggest ...

AMP Capital hires ESG research associate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
AMP Capital Investors has hired Shalini Samuel as ESG research associate. Samuel comes to AMP Capital form Sustainable Investments Research Institute (SIRIS), and has extensive experience in ESG research, particularly Australian and Asian companies ...

Barclays and MSCI launch ESG Fixed Income Indices

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
... sector-neutral versions." The third category builds on a research paper into equities and ESG - Optimizing ESG Factors in Portfolio Construction, published in February by MSCI Barra Applied Research. The research paper used three strategies - underweighting ...

NZ Super excludes nuclear base operators from investments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
... previously excluded - General Dynamics, L-3 Communications, Raytheon and Goodrich Corp, had been cleared to re-enter its portfolio after independent confirmation that they were no longer involved in the manufacture of cluster munitions. "The exclusions ...

VicSuper, SAS Trustee Corporation to divest from tobacco

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... Superannuation funds Hesta and Sunsuper have also decided to divest. See Also: Future Fund excludes tobacco producers from portfolio VicSuper integrates governance risk into bond portfolio

SEFA makes second loan, funds affordable housing purchase

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... obtain financing." See Also: Social Enterprise Finance Australia hires Ben Gales as CEO SEFA: developing sustainable loan portfolio, social financing sector

Ethinvest model portfolios outperform wider ASX indices

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
Proprietary model ASX50 and ASX100 portfolios developed by investment advisory firm Ethinvest has outperformed mainstream accumulation indices by wide margins, Ethinvest said. Trevor Thomas, Ethinvest managing director The Ethinvest ASX50 Screened Index ...