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BetaShares launches global cybersecurity exchange traded fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2016  |  NEWS
Australian ETF manager BetaShares has launched the BetaShares Global Cybersecurity ETF, tracking the performance of global companies in the cybersecurity segment. Alex Vynokur, managing director, BetaShares BetaShares notes that cybersecurity spending ...

Investors have "no place to hide" from climate change impacts: BlackRock

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 SEP 2016  |  NEWS
Investors are exposed to increasing climate change risk in four areas: technological advances, regulatory impacts, increasingly frequent extreme weather events and social pressures for greater climate awareness, according to research from the BlackRock ...

Not for Podcast: Discrediting Online Gambling

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 AUG 2016  |  NEWS
... episode: Zac Gillam, senior policy officer, Consumer Action Law Centre Michael Walsh, CEO, UCA Funds Management Tim Starke, portfolio manager, UCA Funds Management Mark Zirnsak, director, justice and international mission, the Uniting Church of Australia's ...

Climate Bond Initiative releases climate performance data for buildings

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 AUG 2016  |  NEWS
The Climate Bonds Initiative has released emissions performance trajectory data for commercial offices in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth and Canberra. The data sets can be used to assess whether office buildings, proposed developments ...

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 ...