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NAB launches social bond focusing on companies, gender equality

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAR 2017  |  NEWS
... specifically on gender equality. Eva Zileli, head of group funding, NAB The NAB Social Bond (Gender Equality) is a fixed income obligation open to institutional investors. Participating investors will finance or refinance organisations that the Workplace ...

Bendigo and Adelaide Bank launch Socially Responsible Growth Fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 FEB 2017  |  NEWS
... social and corporate governance considerations into their asset selection," primarily applied to listed shares and fixed income asses, according to fund material. Sandhurst Trustees has selected Russel Investment Management, AXA Investment Managers ...

Principles for Responsible Investment discuss agenda for 2017

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 FEB 2017  |  NEWS
... Principles for Responsible Investment will also restart the infrastructure working group as well as continue the fixed income working group's efforts. Reynolds noted that given that US President Donald Trump had campaigned on increasing infrastructure ...

NZ Super earns A+ in UNPRI benchmark report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2016  |  NEWS
... also received A or A+ ratings across all the specific asset class categories it reported on to the UNPRI, including fixed income, listed equity, and private equity. The UNPRI is the internationally accepted benchmark for how institutional investors should ...

Climate-aligned bonds total US$694bn: Climate Bonds Initiative

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUL 2016  |  NEWS
... size of the market means that there are opportunities for investors who wish to allocate towards climate-aligned fixed income, despite the capacity constraints in the labelled market. "Clearly, the first statistic is the scale of climate-aligned bonds ...

Investors seeking ESG themes, factors in fixed income portfolios

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUL 2016  |  NEWS
There is continued interest in integrating environmental, social and governance (ESG) considerations into fixed income portfolios and funds on the retail and institutional side in Australia, but fund managers find that while retail investment in ESG ...

CFSGAM publishes ninth responsible investment report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAY 2016  |  NEWS
... monitoring process, developing and implementing an ESG impact monitoring and reporting system, adding ESG data to global fixed income and credit systems and improving their PRI scores across categories. Berrutti particularly highlighted proxy voting ...

UCA Funds Management publishes annual report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 APR 2016  |  NEWS
... Our positive investments in the health and community services sectors also did well. Our management of our cash and fixed income securities was also quite effective." UCA Funds management also disbursed AU$3.19 million in grants "to support the mission ...

Demand exceeds supply in Australian green bond market

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2016  |  NEWS
... manages mandates where institutional clients have specified that they want an allocation to green bonds as part of a fixed income portfolio, said Kristen Leonard AMP Capital senior portfolio manager "We've had a number of clients come on board in recent ...

AMP Capital hire Kristen Le Mesurier

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 OCT 2015  |  NEWS
... to the ESG Investment Research team, which provides proprietary investment insights to AMP Capital's equities and fixed income investment teams. The team also actively engages with companies and other stakeholders on a range of ESG issues, which are ...