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Vanguard expands Ethically Conscious product range

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2020  |  NEWS
... Reedman, head of product at Vanguard Australia. "The complement to the products we launched today - the Ethically Conscious global equity and global bond funds, have been in the market for about 2 years now." Vanguard Australia manages $3.5 billion across ...

Retail sustainable investments grow by 21%: Morningstar

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2020  |  NEWS
Retail investment in sustainable financial products rose to $19.9 billion by the end of June 2020, a 21% increase on the previous year, according to research from Morningstar. Morningstar recently released a report, Sustainable Investing Landscape for ...

Fund manager creates, hires for ESG role

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2020  |  NEWS
... designed to support the fund manager's efforts to more deeply integrate ESG-related matters across its domestic and global equities funds, including the Alphinity Sustainable Share Fund. Cairns comes to Alphinity from Transurban, where she was senior ...

Super fund ESG option tops charts with investment returns

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2020  |  NEWS
... outperforming other fund's ESG options and even outperforming other ESG options within the same super fund. UniSuper's Global Environmental Opportunities fund option has $1.5 billion in assets under management, as of 31 August. According to UniSuper's ...

Call for education on difference between sustainable, impact investing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2020  |  NEWS
... positive social and environmental impact." To that end, Zurich has launched the Healthcare Impact Fund, which is managed by global fund manager American Century Investments. The American Century Health Care Impact Equity fund, managed by Michael Li ...

QBE makes allocation to impact investment fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2020  |  NEWS
... start-ups scale faster. Investors were attracted to the fund's ability to source investment opportunities from within its global network and add value to these businesses following an investment." QBE's Premiums4Good portfolio has, to date, invested ...

Governance key concern for AGM season: Dimensional Fund Advisors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 1 OCT 2020  |  NEWS
Governance issues will dominate considerations during this year's AGM season for fund manager Dimensional Fund Advisors. Dimensional manages about $AU800bn globally from 13 offices around the world, including two in Australia. Its clients are institutional ...

PRI executive appointed to European Platform on Sustainable Finance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 1 OCT 2020  |  NEWS
The European Commission has appointed PRI Chief Responsible Investment Officer Nathan Fabian as chair of the European Platform on Sustainable Finance. The Platform on Sustainable Finance will advise the European Commission on the development of robust ...

Strong inflows to sustainable option: Stockspot

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... suite of sustainability focused ETFs including the BetaShares Australian Sustainability Leaders ETF (FAIR), BetaShares Global Sustainability Leaders ETF (ETHI) and VanEck Vectors MSCI International Sustainable Equity ETF (ESGI). The weighted average ...

Investors to develop tool to measure biodiversity impacts

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... catalyst for private-sector action, with ripple effects throughout our economies." The investor initiative has cited the IPBES Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services which states that the sixth mass extinction of life on Earth ...