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Innova launches ESG model portfolios

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUL 2022  |  NEWS
... director and co-chief investment officer Dan Miles. "Charitable donations are a key measure of success that we will benchmark ourselves against annually and incorporate into our annual impact report." The management fee is 0.358% for the Balanced Portfolio ...

Stewart Investors identifies progress to net zero

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUL 2022  |  NEWS
... total portfolio emissions was 180,600 tonnes of CO2 equivalent, 90% below the equivalent emissions from the aggregate benchmark. However, the total footprint was 4% higher than 2019 baseline because of a 51% increase in assets under management. More ...

Consultation on faith-based products opens

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUL 2022  |  NEWS
Treasury has released draft legislation that would adjust how the Your Future, Your Super performance test is applied to faith-based products. The regulator has also launched a public consultation that will close on August 16. Under the legislation ...

Resource efficiency a marker for investment performance: Osmosis

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUL 2022  |  NEWS
... with a unit of return while delivering in excess of 50% reduction in carbon, water and waste footprint relative to the benchmark," said Osmosis chief investment officer Robbie Parker Osmosis manages both fossil fuel free portfolios as well as portfolios ...

Schroders' sustainable multi-asset fund receives RIAA certification

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUL 2022  |  NEWS
... with the objective of "improving its sustainability profile and significantly reducing carbon intensity compared to its benchmark. Schroders pointed out that as part of that process, they have applied a biodiversity lens to Australian equities through ...

Pause to YFYS rollout as government announces review

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUL 2022  |  NEWS
... Australasia (RIAA) annual conference in April. In a speech to RIAA, Jones called out an "alarming anomaly, where the benchmark will essentially drive faith-based investing out of the market which is a perverse outcome for a government which purports ...

Kilter Rural discloses state of natural capital in $68m agri fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUN 2022  |  NEWS
... development of environmental accounts using the Accounting for Nature Framework, and has added more new methodologies to benchmark and measure the condition of native vegetation, soil and fauna assets against targets for improvement. "The three methodologies ...

High modern slavery risk to ASX 300: ISS ESG

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUN 2022  |  NEWS
... combination of those to identify low performing and high risk companies, those that are showing leading practice, and benchmark companies against their peers, which could be used to inform negative screening or best in class approaches and engagement." ...

Qantas Super in $2bn climate risk mandate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 6 JUN 2022  |  NEWS
Qantas Super has aligned just under a quarter of its $8.5 billion portfolio with the goal of reducing emissions by 24% by 2025 on the road to net zero by 2050. The corporate super fund has selected Calvert Research and Management and Goldman Sachs Asset ...

RIAA certifies two Real Asset Management funds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAY 2022  |  NEWS
... investment products which meet the Responsible Investment Standard," O'Connor said. "We congratulate RAM for meeting the high benchmark set for Certification for its RAM Australian Diversified Fixed Income Fund and RAM Diversified Fixed Income and Credit ...