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ASX-listed mining, gas and oil companies lack tax transparency: PWYP

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... Robyn Parkin, sustainability and advocacy, Ethical Partners Funds Management and manager, Ethical Partners Tatrai Giving Fund. "We talk a lot about inequality, we talk about the SDGs, we talk about the new attention particularly after COVID-19, being ...

ESG integration policy brings consistency, innovation: JPMAM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
J.P. Morgan Asset Management (JPMAM) 's new integrated ESG policy has enabled the global fund manager to apply a consistent framework for measuring how investment teams implement and demonstrate ESG processes and enhances the ability to develop more ...

Nuveen secures $150m in commitments for Global Impact Strategy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... initial close of the strategy and has a target US$400 million offering. TIAA has invested US$100 million, and Danish pension fund Velliv committed US$50 million. Nuveen's Global Impact strategy seeks to drive positive change in two critical sustainable ...

Bond investor sues Australian government

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... risk in bond information statements. Barnden is the same lawyer representing Mark McVeigh in his suit against superannuation fund Rest for its alleged failure to address and disclose climate risk appropriately. He has taken on O'Donnell's case on a pro ...

UK pension fund to divest half its portfolio

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... achieving net-zero status by 2050 or earlier. It expects carbon emissions in its portfolio will have halved by 2030. The pension fund is immediately shifting close to $10 billion in equities - roughly 45% of its portfolio - to climate aware strategies ...

Majority of asset owners identify ESG importance: bfinance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... "to a lesser extent focused on ESG issues however that gap in sentiment towards ESG investing is narrowing over time," the fund found. European investors lead the world when it comes to a focus on ESG investing. Of all the regions our research has shown ...

State Street Global Advisors to list new ESG ETF on ASX

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... (ESG) ETF on the ASX early next month. Meaghan Victor, head of SPDR ETF Asia Pacific distribution The SPDR S&P/ASX 200 ESG Fund (E200) tracks the S&P/ASX 200 ESG Index, a "broad-based, market-cap-weighted index designed to measure the performance of ...

BetaShares launches currency-hedged version of ethical ETF

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... (ASX: HNDQ). The two new ETFs join BetaShares' existing range of nine currency-hedged global equities ETFs. Last month, the fund manager launched the BetaShares Global Quality Leaders ETF - Currency Hedged (ASX: HQLT). HNDQ enables investors to get exposure ...

Increase in linking environmental, social metrics to remuneration: ISS

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... and proxy advisers aren't the only people looking at AGL's forthcoming remuneration package. When industry superannuation fund First State Super announced its Climate Change Portfolio Transition Plan, Liza McDonald, head of responsible investment at ...

HSBC launches ESG portfolio reporting tool for asset owners, managers

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... such as for asset owners to look at issues of governance and review, and to see those differences and to challenge their fund managers where large positions score particularly poorly or strongly according to each data provider," Johnson said. The service ...