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Climate change to bring more frequent, intense weather: IAG

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... fire seasons and more extreme bushfires. This will reduce the amount of time able to be spent on mitigation and fuel management activities including hazard burns, IAG noted. There will also be more hailstorms with large to giant hail stones, and in a ...

Ardea, UTS partnership to bring AI to fixed income analysis

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
Fixed income specialist Ardea Investment Management has launched a new research partnership with the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) that will apply machine learning to areas including climate change and government bond investing. The Ardea + ...

IIG launches alternative fund-of funds impact strategy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... way of doing impact investing." IIG, founded in 2013, has more than 500 investors with $650 million of funds under management. The group has seen growing demand from advisers and private investors looking for impact investment options to help with diversification ...

Rest climate change case pushes ahead

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 17 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... hearing for a dispute on discovery and privilege earlier this week before mediation on September 22 and a pre-trial case management hearing on September 23, as was first reported in Financial Standard JANA, Rest's asset consultant, has been dragged ...

RealIndex appoints former Acadian executive

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 17 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... awarded a Fulbright scholarship. Owned by First Sentier Investors, Realindex manages $25.8 billion in assets under management (as at 30 June 2020) across a number of funds invested in Australian, global and emerging market equities, in addition to a ...

FTSE Russell enhances Green Revenues data model

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 15 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... to the green economy in a single percentage of revenue figure," said Arne Staal, global head of research and product management, FTSE Russell. "A high degree of overlap with the incoming EU Taxonomy will also allow asset managers to demonstrate the proportion ...

Investors welcome Rio resignations

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 11 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... Gorge in May. Rio Tinto said the decision was made following the board review of the company's cultural heritage management and engagement with investors, shareholders and the traditional owners of the land. Jacques will step down in March 2021 ...

Super fund axes AMP Capital mandate

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... QSuper pulling its mandate with AMP Capital and the Ethical Leaders Fund as of July 1 this year. The fund opted to take management of its socially responsible option in-house, as first reported by Financial Standard in May. "This change is in response ...

Company secretaries weigh challenges, opportunities of virtual AGM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... opted to take shareholder questions in advance, via the online platform and using a phone line, which warranted further management. CIMIC Group's AGM was complicated by the fact that their constitution did not permit the company to hold a totally ...

Australian passive sustainable funds grow to $3.6 billion: Morningstar

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... 2020, there were 534 sustainable index mutual funds and exchange-traded funds globally, with collective assets under management of $250 billion. Both the number of products and the money invested in them have more than doubled over the past three years. ...