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Paradice Investment Management appoint head of ESG

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... 2007, the Global Small Cap Strategy in 2010 and recently the Global Emerging Markets Strategy and Long Short Australian Equities Strategy in 2019. In his previous role at Ausbil, Varcoe spoke with FS Sustainability about the investment risks of plastic ...

Do founder-led listed companies outperform on E, S and G metrics?

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... by several sources as examples of founders with strong environmental and social focuses. Emilie O'Neill, ESG and equities analyst at Perennial, performed an analysis of 15 founder-led companies and compared it to their in-house ESG database and found ...

Northern Trust expands ESG Insights risk analytics suite

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... Taskforce for Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), Northern Trust said. The ESG Analytics Service covers listed equities and corporate fixed income, but in future, it could be extended to other asset classes. Providing analytics relating to ...

Online investors applying ESG criteria: Investment Trends

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... Trends has released its 2020 1H Online InvestingReport, which gathers data on the preferences and behaviours of online equities and ETF investors in Australia. The report found that between December 2019 and June 2020, the number of active online investors ...

Investors to increase climate-linked passive investments: DWS Group

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... Agreement. Cap-weighted index funds as their favourite passive vehicle of choice, cited by 70% of respondents, and 89% treat equities as their favourite underlying asset class. "The emphasis in the beginning was very much on risk mitigation," Rajan said. ...

ESG superannuation funds outperform in torrid year: Rainmaker

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... percentage points - the overall index showed a -1.5% loss, while the ESG equivalent had a return of 0.3%. The Rainmaker ESG Equities Index that combines domestic and global equities workplace ESG options slightly underperformed the overall equivalent ...

UK pension fund to divest half its portfolio

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... emissions in its portfolio will have halved by 2030. The pension fund is immediately shifting close to $10 billion in equities - roughly 45% of its portfolio - to climate aware strategies, instantly reducing its carbon footprint by the equivalent of ...

BetaShares launches currency-hedged version of ethical ETF

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... market in May 2020. BetaShares dominates the ESG ETP sector with 73% of funds under management in three ETPs - the global equities-focused ethical ETF ETHI, the Australian equities-focused ethical ETF, FAIR, and the global fixed income ETF, GBND. "We ...

ESG ETP assets under management triple in last three years: Research

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... ESG ETP products, eight are ETFs, and the InvestSMART product is an actively managed fund. Four invest in Australian equities, three invest in international equities, and two invest in fixed interest. Management expense fees range from 0.18% for the ...

First State Super-backed Victorian fund makes first investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... sector has an essential role to play." Last week, First State Super announced targets to reduce carbon emissions in its equities portfolio and a plan to from thermal coal miners as part of a Climate Change Portfolio Transition Plan. First State Super ...