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Australian Ethical launches Fixed Interest Trust

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
... Macri said. "We can now offer that fund to investors and the benefit of that is especially for advisers who create their own asset allocation and their own funds." The trust's benchmark is the UBS Composite Bond Index, and the largest single component ...

Mercer: ESG as source of innovation in shifting economy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
... entail evaluating investors' external managers against Mercer's ESG rating system and evaluating thematic allocations across asset classes, Ambachtsheer said. "We assign an ESG rating to every strategy, and assess there's a gap between where the ratings ...

CDP, FirstCarbon Solutions sign expanded partnership

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
... also take on scoring disclosures for the CDP Southeast Asia region. "As one of our key partners, FCS has been a valuable asset to our investor and supply chain members and to CDP," said Nigel Topping, executive director at CDP. "Now, this enhanced partnership ...

Australian Ethical Investment hires head of ethics

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
... Dr Palmer worked in law, finance and investment, including as partner at law firm Middletons Moore & Bevins and head of asset securitisation at ABN AMRO Australia. Dr Palmer received his doctoral degree in philosophy from the University of Sydney. "We ...

350.org Australia issues ASX200 fossil fuel divestment study

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
... we don't cause harm to the many people who have jobs in the fossil fuel sector. There was fantastic analysis done by the Asset Owners Disclosure Project that found that if the pension fund sector was to increase their investment in low carbon by 3% ...

NZ Super Fund sells partial forestry stake to iwi collective

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
New Zealand Superannuation Fund has sold a 2.5% stake in New Zealand's largest forestry business to six iwi organisations. The six iwi representative organisations - Ngati Rangitihi, Ngati Whakaue Assets and Te Arawa River Iwi Limited Partnership, Ngati ...

UCA Funds Management sets exclusions in fossil fuel policy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2014  |  NEWS
UCA Funds Management has developed a fossil fuel policy that rules out future investments in thermal coal, unconventional oil such as shale and deep water drilling and in companies that extract gas through fracking. Michael Walsh, UCA Funds Management ...

IGCC joins world peers in voicing fugitive methane concerns

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2014  |  NEWS
... through international equities holdings. "This is more for Australian investors as global investors in this energy source and asset class," Fabian said. "We do still have exposure to that market through internationalequity holdings, not to mention, of ...

AMP Capital busts ESG myths

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 FEB 2014  |  NEWS
Analysing companies' environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors can be a means to discover investment risks before they happen, while also allowing investors to make better informed decisions with better outcomes, according to AMP Capital. Mans ...

CDSB expands natural capital in new reporting framework

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 FEB 2014  |  NEWS
( Ed. note: This article is updated throughout with comment from Lois Cuthrie, CDSB executive director) The Climate Disclosure Standards Board (CDSB) has expanded its reporting framework to include more information on natural capital calculations - ...