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ESG funds show strong risk-adjusted returns: Rainmaker

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 14 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... strong risk adjusted returns, according to new research from Rainmaker Information. Assessing median results of superannuation fund options, Rainmaker Information has found that ESG returned a median average of 5.6% pa over a three-year period, as compared ...

Science-based targets key to addressing the world's biggest challenges

LOUISE WATSON  |  TUESDAY, 29 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
... members' best interest means putting ESG integration and responsible investing at the forefront of investment and superannuation fund design and implementation. Investment managers and asset owners understand that they will continue to be subjected ...

Future Super to reduce fees on fund options

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 29 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
Superannuation fund Future Super will ring in the new year by reducing fees on all its investment options. From January 2021, Future Super will cut the admin fee on its Future Super Balanced Impact and Future Super Renewables Plus to 0.554% with the ...

The articles you read in 2020

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 29 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
This year tested every principle of sustainability, from the bushfires that began the year to the COVID-19 pandemic. Far from shoving ESG down the agenda, the impacts of both crises proved a force multiplier for the impact of environmental, social and ...

Government to launch inquiry into financial sector and climate risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
A proposed federal inquiry will examine the legality of banks and insurers' decisions to withdraw from lending or insuring mining projects on climate risk grounds. The big banks and regulators including APRA and ASIC are expected to be called to the ...

Stakeholders mull impact of Rio Tinto report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
In the wake of a damning report into Rio Tinto's destruction of 46,000 year old caves at the Juukan Gorge in Western Australia, stakeholders including traditional owners, investors and civil society are looking to how the recommendations in a governmental ...

Industry considers Australian sustainable finance taxonomy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 10 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
The development of an industry-led taxonomy to provide common definitions of sustainable finance across investment, banking and insurance is one of the next steps in implementing the Australian Sustainable Finance Initiative roadmap (ASFI), but while ...

Super fund backs microgrid battery storage development

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 10 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
An industry superannuation fund has made an investment in a microgrid battery storage development to capture renewable energy in New York City and Texas. Aware Super has invested US$30 million in SER Capital Partners' New York City microgrid projects ...

Best ESG super products recognised

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 3 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
An industry superannuation fund has been recognised for its investment leadership and best superannuation fund product in the annual Money magazine Best of the Best Awards. HESTA was named best innovation for ESG investment leadership, and Best ESG ...

ESG funds continue strong performance: Rainmaker

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 3 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
ESG superannuation fund options continued to outperform in the latest Rainmaker Information league tables. The Rainmaker ESG Diversified Index returned an unchanged 0.6% over the 12-month period to the end of October 2020, outperforming the MySuper ...