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Using the SDGs to develop sustainable investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 2 SEP 2021  |  NEWS
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide a framework of targets that investors can use to implement sustainable investment outcomes. There is "deep momentum" to making investments towards companies and assets that support the ...

Greenwashing a challenge to sustainable investing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 26 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
... private assets and sustainability. Australian investors were surveyed as part of the sample, with from corporate and public pension plans, insurance companies, private banks, endowments and foundations, collectively responsible for $26.8 trillion in ...

Fund manager sets gender diversity target

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 12 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
... said. First Sentier Investors manages $241 billion in assets (as at 30 June 2021) on behalf of institutional investors, pension funds, wholesale distributors, investment platforms, financial advisers and their clients worldwide.

bfinance hires ESG and responsible investment director

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 5 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
Independent investment consultancy bfinance has launched a new ESG advisory unit and named an ESG and responsible investment director. Sarita Gosrani comes to bfinance from XPS Pensions Group, where she was head of ESG research. She helped lead the ...

Profile: Fiona Reynolds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUN 2021  |  NEWS
... organisation, but you don't have to make the argument about ESG factors anymore," she said. Most of the major investment firms and pension funds, it is part of their strategy, and it is engrained into the strategy." Reynolds also noted ESG specialists ...

Neuberger Berman closes $280m private equity impact fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAY 2021  |  NEWS
... Australian managing director Paul O'Halloran. The Impact Fund is backed by global investors, including public and private pension plans, insurance companies and other financial institutions, endowments, foundations and family offices. O'Halloran ...

APAC investors ahead of North America on climate action: PGIM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAY 2021  |  NEWS
... different." Klausner pointed to the chilling effect of the Trump-era Department of Labor issuing a memo to ERISA-regulated pension funds - predominately corporate pension funds - warning them that considering ESG in their investment process could be ...

First Sentier launches private debt strategy with renewable energy assets

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 3 MAY 2021  |  NEWS
... 417billion). First Sentier Investors manages A$237 billion in assets (as at 31 March 2021) on behalf of institutional investors, pension funds, wholesale distributors, investment platforms, financial advisers and their clients worldwide.

ESG investing growing strongly in Asia: J.P. Morgan Asset Management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 APR 2021  |  NEWS
... generally institutional investors will typically lead that effort. You have someone like in Japan, the GPIF [Government Pension Investment Fund] that is a big support of ESG investing. Similarly, Australian institutional investors are more mature investors ...

Assessing climate risk in corporate bond portfolios

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 25 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
... forward-looking emissions are, so we can identify the winners and losers in a net-zero world. "This is important for insurers and pension funds because in our mind they have a fiduciary duty to their policy holders or members to deliver s something that's ...