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Australian Ethical Investment makes three new hires

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAR 2018  |  NEWS
... appointments are "in response to Australian Ethical's ongoing growth in funds under management (FUM) and memberships," the fund manager said. Australian Ethical recently reported FUM of $2.6 billion. "We are a purpose-driven business and people are highly ...

Local Government Super co-files ACCR-organised Rio Tinto shareholder resolution

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAR 2018  |  NEWS
... Government Super, the $4.1 billion Church of England Pensions Board and the $69 billion Seventh Swedish National Pension Fund (AP7). "We were over 100 with the individual shareholders - small shareholdings they hold personally or through a SMSF or a ...

Legg Mason's Western Asset removes tobacco, cluster munitions from bond funds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAR 2018  |  NEWS
... Asset Managementwill remove investments linked to tobacco and cluster munitions from the Legg Mason Western Asset Global Bond Fund and the Legg Mason Western Asset Australian Bond Fund. The decision to remove the affected issuers was done to ensure that ...

The Fred Hollows Foundation invests in eye care centre social enterprise

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 FEB 2018  |  NEWS
... refurbishment, and so on. For us, we looked at what we could achieve with the grant funding alone, as if we were to grant-fund the whole hospital. We could do seven times as many hospitals if we could use the grant money as an investment." Japanese pharmaceutical ...

Russell Investments to implement new material ESG score methodology

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 FEB 2018  |  NEWS
... Institutional Australia, at Russell Investments. "We're going to be developing that more quickly around things like the low-carbon fund in Australia, where we can do that more directly. We will also look to integrating it in terms of the active management ...

Acorns Grow Australia to launch superannuation product

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 FEB 2018  |  NEWS
... way across both investing and savings." Acorns Grow Australia Super is intended to be a sub-plan for the DIY Master Plan fund, issued by Diversa Trustees Limited. Acorns Australia currently has 400,000 signups. Acorns has introduced a number of new features ...

Australian Ethical Investment reports AUM of $2.6 billion for half year

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 FEB 2018  |  NEWS
... to come. "Individuals proactively seek out Australian Ethical as having the highest ethical conviction of any responsible fund. For 30 years we have been guided by the 23 principals of our Ethical Charter in everything we do, our investment philosophy ...

NAB sheds light on process of issuing green RMBS

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 FEB 2018  |  NEWS
When National Australia Bank (NAB) issued an Australian residential mortgage-backed bond with a green tranche, it was able to do so using recently developed Climate Bond Initiative proxy criteria. Eva Zileli, head of group funding, NAB NAB has issued ...

ANZ prices €750 million bond linked to Sustainable Development Goals

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 FEB 2018  |  NEWS
... Tapley, head of sustainable finance solutions (SFS), loans and specialised finance, ANZ The bond raised â,¬750 million to fund ANZ loans and expenditures that directly promote nine of the 17 SDGs. According to ANZ, "the five year fixed rate bond was ...

Taiwan Bureau of Labor Funds selects FTSE4Good for ESG passive mandate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 FEB 2018  |  NEWS
... FTSE4Good's TIP Taiwan ESG index for a US$1.4 billion mandate. BLF has issued a five year passive mandate and is the first fund to use the FTSE4 Good TIP Taiwan ESG index. The FTSE4Good TIP Taiwan ESG Index was launched in December 2017 and was developed ...