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QIC invests in Australian biotech start-up

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUL 2024  |  NEWS
... technology extends beyond accelerating drug development timelines and could deliver substantial reductions in the costs and ethical concerns associated with traditional research and development methodologies. "With the support of the Jelix Ventures ...

Future Super returns 10.1% to ethically minded members

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 8 JUL 2024  |  NEWS
Future Group's flagship super offering has returned 10.1%, while Verve Super achieved 9.9% last financial year. The results are for the Future Super Balanced Index option and Verve Super's standalone strategy. Future Group said the results are ...

Groups unite against carbon offsets

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 8 JUL 2024  |  NEWS
... Signatories include Banktrack, Reclaim Finance, ShareAction, Finance Watch, Urgewald, Facing Finance, and the Association of Ethical Shareholders Germany. Other organisations include Amnesty International, Greenpeace, Oxfam, and the NewClimate Institute. ...

Aus Ethical gets ex-PRI chief

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUL 2024  |  NEWS
... appointed ex-CEO of the UN-supported Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) to its board. Fiona Reynolds joins Australian Ethical Superannuation with more than three decades of experience in responsible investing and superannuation. As boss at the ...

Women continue to lag in asset management

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUN 2024  |  NEWS
... increase from 24% in 2017, according to Future IM/Pact. The diversity initiative partners with Rest Super, Australian Ethical Investments, Australian Retirement Trust, Aware Super, Colonial First State, HESTA, Mercer, QIC, TCorp, and UniSuper. New research ...

Climate philanthropists lend muscle to green metal

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 20 JUN 2024  |  NEWS
... economy go to both philanthropists and investors. For example, one of Giving Green's funders is fund manager Australian Ethical. In the three months to March, Australian Ethical's High Conviction Fund returned 8% against its benchmark's 5.4%. ...

Australian Ethical updates investment guide

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUN 2024  |  NEWS
Australian Ethical has updated its guide to ethical investing with several additions to further clarify what it considers before making an investment. The super fund added a list of positive and negative factors it considers in developing its criteria ...

AOFM launches first Green Treasury Bond

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 3 JUN 2024  |  NEWS
... expected to be available in 2025. Australia's inaugural Green Treasury Bond has been hotly anticipated, a spokesperson from Ethical Investment Advisers, the ethical investment specialists, commented. "It marks a significant step towards advancing our ...

ESG demand still high for advisers

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAY 2024  |  NEWS
... sustainable investments appealing to many of their clients, despite ongoing cost-of-living pressures and political differences. Ethical investment leaders spoke at the Financial Standard's inaugural Future Investing Forum, held in Melbourne today. ...

Australian Ethical snaps up asset manager

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAY 2024  |  NEWS
Australian Ethical has struck a deal to acquire Altius Asset Management, the sustainable fixed income business of Australian Unity, a move that will see its funds under management (FUM) swell by $2 billion. The acquisition will see both firms merge ...