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New ethical fund appoints Equity Trustees as RE

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 9 SEP 2021  |  NEWS
The Haven Wealth Partners Ethical Absolute Return Fund is a value-focused ethical absolute return fund, which applies positive and negative screens to its investments in companies that are aligned to the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Haven Wealth ...

Advisers integrating positive impact into investment choices

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 2 SEP 2021  |  NEWS
... include wanting to invest in renewable energy, Zbik noted. "In 2020, over half the new clients I brought on requested an ethical/sustainable overlay," he said. "That's a real breadth of clients - historically, it would have been the younger clients ...

Wealth managers under pressure on returns, ESG: Accenture

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 26 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
... focusing on returns as just one of many metrics across the environmental, social and governance (ESG) spectrum. This same ethical compass shift will likely also become pervasive across the wider capital markets ecosystem." The report outlines trends ...

Record FUM growth at Australian Ethical

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 26 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
Fund manager and super fund Australian Ethical enjoyed record annual growth in its funds under management and announced a dividend in its results. With net inflows of $1.03 billion during the year driving FUM up to $6.07 billion, the company announced ...

Gender pay gaps "sabotage" diversity, profits: UniSA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 19 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
... levels, to ensure that people are being paid the same in terms of money. "This is an organisational issue. We can raise ethical arguments, but this is a business case, and as valuable as the ethical arguments are, business cases tend to get more attention ...

ESG funds, ETPs see billion-dollar inflows

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 12 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
... with the top 20 funds accounting for 58% of total assets in the sustainable fund universe," Morningstar said. "Australian Ethical and Vanguard remain the dominant Australasian providers of sustainable funds, each with a market share around 20%." Meanwhile ...

Assessing big tech's ESG risks and opportunities: Aviva Investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 5 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
... reinforces the need for us to take a nuanced approach." Piffaut noted that tech firms also introduce innovations that carry ethical considerations, including data privacy issues, the responsibility to moderating hate content and the role of fake news ...

Quant manager deploys AI to identify corporate greenwashing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 5 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
... it developed the automated system to identify greenwashing - when organisations make unsubstantiated claims about their ethical and/or environmental practices. "Quants are ideally suited to identifying greenwashing because they are data-driven," said ...

Crescent Wealth announces new shareholder, board appointments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 5 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
... financial services and a champion for Islamic finance initiatives," Shahin said. "We share the same values and a passion for ethical investing. "I look forward to working with the Crescent Group team over the next many, many years." The Crescent Wealth ...

Climate friendly super choice could halve emissions: Australian Ethical

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 2 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
Australian Ethical and independent MP Zali Steggall issued a call to super fund members to look upon their super fund choice as a tool to address climate change. The ethical super fund issued a set of calculations that they said show that if Australians ...