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Investors to engage with payday lenders over practices

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
... companies in a campaign to improve their lending policies to financially vulnerable Australians. Michael Walsh, UCA Funds Management CEO UCA Funds Management and seven other organisations, including other investors, engagement specialists, financial ...

Teachers Mutual Bank, NAB on "most ethical" list

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
... community". See Also: Teachers Mutual Bank, NAB, Westpac top "most ethical" list Investors apply ethical screens to cash management

Ethical Advisers' Co-operative AUM reach nearly $1 billion

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
The financial advisers that operate the Ethical Advisers' Co-operative increased ethically screened funds under management by 18% to nearly AU$1 billion in 2014. Louise Edkins, director, Ethical Investment Advisers Funds under management increased through ...

AXA IM ESG SmartBeta fund 5% stronger than benchmark

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
... Services licensee Financial Index Wealth Accountants (FIWA). The strategy currently has AU$70 million in assets under management and has posted a return of 5% of its benchmark, the MSCI ACWI ex- Australia Index (AUD). The AXA IM ESG SmartBeta strategy ...

Companies, investors cite overlapping materiality: GRI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
... sustainability issues in the technology hardware and equipment sector, and the four most important factors were innovation management, supply chain management, corporate governance and human capital management. Sector specific factors were environmental ...

Funds using custodian to monitor ESG mandates: J.P. Morgan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 FEB 2015  |  NEWS
... asset level and security-level exposures, and are often used by clients to monitor on implementation of outsourced fund management mandates. J.P. Morgan Investor Services last year created Investment Information Services, which is a cross-disciplinary ...

Future Super founders to launch Future Home Loans

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2015  |  NEWS
... campaign, Verwey said. Meanwhile, Future Super has reached 1550 members and has more than AU$35 million in assets under management to date, Verwey said. Since inception in September 2014 to the end of January, the fund has a return of 5.62%, he added. ...

Global sustainable investments rise to US$21.4tr: GSIA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2015  |  NEWS
... of global sustainable invested assets, the report finds. Australia and New Zealand had AU$153 billion in funds under management in broad responsible investments in 2013, while funds under management in core responsible investment were just over AU$25 ...

VFMC to divest from tobacco holdings

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2015  |  NEWS
The Victoria Funds Management Corporation (VFMC) has announced that it will divest from direct investments in equity of tobacco manufacturers. VFMC is a AU$46.6 billion state-owned funds manager for a number of public authorities and bodies. Divestment ...

Gordon Hagart to leave ACSI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 FEB 2015  |  NEWS
... mandate." Hagart came to ACSI from the Future Fund, where he was head of environmental, social and governance risk management. Prior to that, he worked with the United Nations Environment Program in Geneva, where he played a key role in creating the ...