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PRI signatory assets top US$45 trillion

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
... States), Credit Suisse Private Banking & Wealth Management (Switzerland), Green Investment Bank (United Kingdom), Unilever Pension Fund (Netherlands), Greater Manchester Pension Fund (United Kingdom) and Morgan Stanley Investment Management (United States). ...

Northern Trust's Bowers on ESG and funds management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
... it and doing it," Bowers said. Asset owners inform us that their members or contributors often ask "do we do ESG in our pension fund, if not, why not? Are we doing right with our assets that we're collecting?" Bowers noted that this attitude towards ...

Superannuation fund investments will shape future economy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
... you is not an option." Inflection Point's target client base will global in nature, targeting sovereign wealth funds, pension funds and other large institutional investors, he said. Inflection Point is not marketing a fund or product in Australia at ...

Farmland attractive to super funds, but liquidity a concern

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
... these megatrends will shape agriculture investment in the coming decades and are already influencing investments of major pension funds globally," Noble said in a speech to the Victorian Farmers Federation Conference, which Noble provided to The Sustainability ...

NAB, GS Microfinance: more needed on financial exclusion

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
There are still more than three million Australian adults that are fully or severely excluded from financial products, lending weight to the argument for greater investment in microfinance in Australia, according to Good Shepherd Microfinance. Good ...

IGCC launches Perfect Storm Pension Fund video project

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
... role-play that considers concrete steps for integrating climate change risk into a superannuation portfolio. The Perfect Storm Pension Fund features videoed discussion of the superannuation professionals as they work through seven model resolutions put ...

Norton Rose Fulbright: trustees must consider climate change

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 APR 2014  |  NEWS
... movement to the anti-tobacco investment movement and the anti-apartheid movement from the 80s that pressed investors such as pension funds to divest from assets in South Africa. Morally couched divestment movements can lead to regulations that could ...

PRI moving ahead with governance review, disclosure regime

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2014  |  NEWS
... the formal review at a joint meeting in Cape Town last September, but the review took on new impetus after six Danish pension fund signatories de-listed from PRI in December, citing governance concerns. As the governance review is being conducted, PRI ...

Mercer: ESG as source of innovation in shifting economy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
... consider, and what do I do about it." Globally, Mercer doesn't foresee wholesale divestment of fossil fuel companies by pension funds and institutional investors, but investors are raising issues related to the subject with their invested companies ...

350.org Australia issues ASX200 fossil fuel divestment study

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
... the fossil fuel sector. There was fantastic analysis done by the Asset Owners Disclosure Project that found that if the pension fund sector was to increase their investment in low carbon by 3%, that would leverage around US$3 trillion, which is enough ...