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Companies expect increase in sales linked to sustainability: HSBC

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 3 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
... surviving rather than thriving," according to the survey. However, 70% of Australian respondents say they aim to increase investment in 2021.

ESG funds continue strong performance: Rainmaker

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 3 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
... returned 5.0%, HESTA's Sustainable Growth returned 3.2%, Lutheran Super's Balanced Growth Socially Responsible Investment option returned 3.0% and Australian Catholic Super's Employer's Socially Responsible option returned 2.8%. The benchmark ...

Aviva Investors launches climate transition equity fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
... comparison. "Companies provide some information, but you need to bring in all the sources. That's why we try to combine investment conviction with the impact that you could have. That informs where we want to focus." Aviva Investors engages with ...

Capital raisings, remuneration impact proxy vote: Dimensional

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 1 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
... fee-based advice firms. The fund manager has long integrated environmental, social and governance considerations into its investment processes, having launched its first sustainability strategy in 2006. Dimensional set up in Australia in 1994, initially ...

Integrating climate impacts in quant strategies: Acadian Asset Management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
... well." From that perspective, ESG doesn't constitute a separate factor, but rather a series of holistic information that investment managers should consider alongside traditional metrics, Picone added. This is reflected in the ways that Acadian prices ...

Industry super cuts emissions exposures by 40%

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 26 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
... portfolio by a minimum of 30% by 2023. The benchmarks are designed to enable Aware Super's external passive and systematic investment managers to implement their strategies so that the resulting combined equities portfolio excludes the highest carbon ...

Social, economic consequences of climate change "devastating": Robeco

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 26 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
... economic consequences of climate change in a business as usual scenario are expected to be "devastating," but mitigating investment risk based on backward looking data and not future transition is a challenge for investors, according to Robeco. Robeco ...

Roadmap outlines sustainable transformation for finance industry

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 24 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
... roadmap." The sustainable finance body will not duplicate the work of other industry bodies such as the Responsible Investment Association Australasia, the Australian Banking Association, the Insurance Council or the Investor Group on Climate Change ...

AGL, ARENA in $8m electric vehicle charging study

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 19 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
... accelerate the commercialisation of the orchestration of EV charging by examining the key sources of uncertainty and investment risk such as the commercial model, technology approaches, customer behaviour and market structure, ARENA said. ARENA has previously ...

Climate Action 100+ adds companies to engagement list

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 19 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
... future," said Fiona Reynolds, Climate Action 100+ vice chair and chief executive officer of the Principles for Responsible Investment. "Along with governments, the private sector - investors and business -have a key role to play in addressing climate ...