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Comment: hindsight is 2020

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
... conditions. Regulators and investment and legal experts acknowledge that climate change will impact financial risk management and long term investment decisions. This will influence where funds are flowing to and thus asset prices. Larry Fink, the CEO ...

IIG announces tenants for Younghusband Woolstores development

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
... A-grade workspaces and Kensington's urban-village character," said Darren Brusnahan, IIG's head of real estate funds management. We greatly admire the architectural work of ClarkeHopkinsClarke and the culture of their business: social and environmental ...

Small, mid-caps list governance, social as top ESG concerns: Perennial

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
... governance (ESG) issues, as well as areas of future improvement, according to a survey conducted by Perennial Value Management. Damian Cottier, portfolio manager, Perennial Value Management In 2019, Perennial Value Management conducted its inaugural ...

Amundi reports increased demand for fixed income ETFs, ESG integration

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
... cooperate, high yield and emerging debt." Amundi ETF, Indexing and Smart Beta currently has EUR 122 billion in assets under management, and demand for Amundi's fixed income ETFs is coming from institutional investors such as insurance companies, who ...

BetaShares ethical ETFs surpass $1 billion funds under management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JAN 2020  |  NEWS
BetaShares' ethical exchange traded funds (ETFs) have passed the $1 billion funds under management, fuelled by around $300 million in inflows to the two equities ETFs in the past three months. BetaShares Ethical ETFs FUM BetaShares points to the coincidence ...

Human rights, ethical sourcing driving ESG considerations in Asia: Ausbil

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2020  |  NEWS
... companies to evolving risks and opportunities across environmental and social metrics, according to Ausbil Investment Management. Mans Carlsson-Sweeny, Ausbil Ausbil's ESG research team recently published a paper examining how ethical considerations ...

Companies that manage ESG issues "more resilient": Saturna Capital

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2020  |  NEWS
... Capital Saturna Capital offers two strategies that integrate ESG analysis - the Saturna Sustainable Funds, but the fund management firm's approach to considering sustainable performance is an outgrowth of of of its original fund offerings, which is Sharia-compliant ...

VFMC hires Talieh Williams as head of investment stewardship

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2020  |  NEWS
The Victorian Funds Management Corporation (VFMC) has hired Talieh Williams to the role of head of investment stewardship. Talieh Williams A spokesperson for VMFC confirmed that Williams will join the fund 3 February and will report to CIO Russell Clarke. ...

Global green bond market continues to grow, expand: J.P. Morgan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2020  |  NEWS
... developments, using examples from around the world to illustrate. She pointed to a March 2019 issuance by Link Asset Management as one example of a HK$4 billion green convertible bond at 1.6% p.a. "The Link REIT green bond in Hong Kong is particularly ...

Eurozone outperforms North America in ESG investing: Amundi

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2020  |  NEWS
... to an annualised return of 2.9% in the Eurozone and 1.6% in North America," Amundi said. "Similarly, optimized index management, in which the weighting of companies in the index is optimized to obtain the lowest possible tracking error, would have created ...