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IGCC survey finds institutional investors seeking to increase low-carbon investments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 SEP 2017  |  NEWS
... to go around blockages thrown up by regulatory uncertainty," Herd said. "Because the drivers to actually de-risk the portfolio and increase exposure to green investments have grown stronger, the regulatory barriers are acting like a dam and the capital ...

SSGA Global Index Plus Trust to exclude tobacco, controversial weapons

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 SEP 2017  |  NEWS
... exclude tobacco and controversial weapons shares from the State Street Global Index Plus Trust. Jonathan Shead, head of portfolio strategies, Asia Pacific, SSGA The fund, established in December 2000, has $900 million under management as of June 30 ...

Australia/NZ continue to top the ranks in GRESB 2017 real estate review

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 SEP 2017  |  NEWS
... Commercial were named as global leaders. Within Australia and New Zealand, Dexus Office Trust, Vicinity Centres Direct Portfolio, and Frasers Logistics and Industrial Trust were named sector leaders.

Alpha Fund Managers invests in Australian Ethical Australian Shares Fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 AUG 2017  |  NEWS
... with our bias to small cap stocks, means we have a different approach to many mainstream fund managers." Julien Brodie, portfolio manager at Alpha Fund Managers cited the Australian Shares Fund's strong track record of outperformance and lower-than-market ...

UCA Funds Management hires James Cook as director investments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 AUG 2017  |  NEWS
... hired James Cook as director investments. Michael Walsh, UCA Funds Management Cook has more than 32 years' experience in portfolio and senior management experience in Australia and the UK. He comes to UCA Funds Management from ANZ, where he worked for ...

Negatively screened funds grow by over 2500% in New Zealand: RIAA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 AUG 2017  |  NEWS
... emerge in Australia. AMP is a big signal with tobacco divestment. Partly it's because with KiwiSaver, there are full portfolio holdings disclosure requirements. You would have noted that ASIC have deferred that to 2019. The path we're going on, and this ...

Vision Super to hire environmental activist to join Climate Action Team

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 AUG 2017  |  NEWS
Vision Super is seeking to hire an environmental activist to join their Climate Action Team. Stephen Rowe, Vision Super CEO The Climate Action Team was established to manage climate change risks in investments, and push for policy changes at national ...

Responsible Investment assets top $622 billion: RIAA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUL 2017  |  NEWS
Responsible investments have more than quadrupled over the past three years to $622 billion, with 44% of Australia's assets under management invested through some form of responsible investment strategy, according to the Responsible Investment Association ...

Mercer study reveals diversity gap in investment management industry

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUL 2017  |  NEWS
... industry-wide employee and career value proposition and promote to diverse talent pools." This necessitates engaging portfolio managers in the problem and the solution, as well as embedding behavioural expectations into performance expectations. "It ...

Colonial First State Global Asset Management publish stewardship report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUL 2017  |  NEWS
... level to give an insight into each teams culture and approach towards responsible investment, at this level some of the portfolio footprinting approaches don't work. Secondly, the way that carbon intensity is calculated, if you don't break it down by ...