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Future Group ramps up screening

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 9 DEC 2024  |  NEWS
... Super, and smartMonday have not been marketed as sustainable funds in the past, however going forward their international equities portfolio contains no investments in fossil fuels, weapons, nuclear energy, and gambling. For tobacco however, there is ...

Funds SA loses ESG executive

ELIZABETH FRY  |  MONDAY, 2 DEC 2024  |  NEWS
... investment analyst within the ESG team for just over a year. This gig followed a three-year stint at Citi as an analyst in equities research looking at remuneration, bribery and corruption, carbon footprinting, safety, slavery and human rights and their ...

ETFs recover and dominate

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 25 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
... September 2024. Unit trusts net flow was -2% versus ETFs at +15%. Diversified bonds, short duration bonds, Australian equities income, emerging markets equities and Australian equities large caps saw positive flows, with the fast-growing sector being ...

Global corporate emissions fall for first time

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
Carbon emissions from listed equities may have reached a turning point, according to new findings made using advanced artificial intelligence to fill disclosure gaps. Financed emissions data and climate risk analyst Emmi looked at 45,000 public companies ...

81 major investors lock in climate targets

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 31 OCT 2024  |  NEWS
... AUM. This is an increase from 42% in the previous year. They targeted, on average, a 26% reduction by 2025 for bonds, equities, real estate, and infrastructure. Despite the momentum, Wendy Walford, NZAOA policy track co-lead and climate risk head at ...

New alliance brings green data to financial markets

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 21 OCT 2024  |  NEWS
... step towards incorporating the cost of carbon into every decision." Emmi's datasets cover more than 40,000 public equities, nearly half a million public fixed income holdings, and can produce climate risk and emissions data across unlisted private ...

First Sentier heeds the call of nature

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 10 OCT 2024  |  NEWS
... 2025, it will publicly disclose an assessment of nature-related dependencies, impacts, risks and opportunities for listed equities and corporate bonds. It has already set and disclosed impacts and dependencies in listed equities at the sector level. ...

Future Fund restructures investment leadership

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 13 SEP 2024  |  NEWS
... portfolio design, real assets, investment capability and intelligence, portfolio risk, and responsible investment and listed equities. The new-look unit comprises six leaders, including five new managing director roles reporting to Samild, which will ...

Indices move beyond carbon tunnel vision

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 29 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
... Robeco has developed the new indices with three levels of progressive action on climate: Low-Carbon Climate Leaders Tilt Equities Index is a low-tracking error alternative to a passive market-cap weighted index, targeting Paris-aligned entities. Paris-Aligned ...

Green job moves: ACSI, Edge, Investa

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
... Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) - materiality frameworks and net-zero alignment. Previously he analysed UK equities, after starting as a global responsible investment analyst at Columbia Threadneedle. Meanwhile, Richard Griffiths has ...