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Global fund manager launches local climate transition fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
... Management saying it has an almost 100 % reduction in potential carbon emissions of the strategy against the parent benchmark, MSCI World Index. Bennett likened the impact of heavy emitting companies to the pareto principle - that the majority of the ...

What's in a name: evaluating the goals behind net zero targets

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
Super funds and asset managers have announced commitments to remove risks of greenhouse gas emissions from their portfolios. These announcements have a shorthand - "net zero" or "carbon neutral" or "decarbonisation" - and have varying timelines to reach ...

Industry fund sets bar higher with Net Zero timing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
An industry superannuation fund has set the most ambitious climate change related target yet, aiming to attain a carbon neutral investment portfolio in nine years. The $12.8 billion NGS Super has set a target of carbon neutrality by 2030. The target ...

Signs of a "greenium" in bond market: Climate Bond Initiative

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
... diverse investor base that green bonds are known to attract. The report covers 35 Euro and 19 US dollar denominated benchmark size green bonds with a total value of US$62.5 billion issued during July to December 2020, which CBI calls "a period of rebound ...

Super, fund manager lends muscle to net zero target

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
... have found that our global equities managers are very comfortable with this. Our Australian equities managers have some benchmark concerns to raise, but nothing that was a red flag. "I think it is much more likely that we will be working with existing ...

Rio Tinto commits to climate vote at AGM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 18 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
... investor engagement," Rio said in a statement. "We will work towards disclosures consistent with the evolving CA100+ benchmark and our Board intends to put our TCFD-aligned reporting to an advisory vote at our 2022 annual general meetings." Investors ...

Ausbil drops fossil fuel companies from sustainable fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 18 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
... celebrated its third year since inception, reporting an 11.77% annual return since inception 31 January 2018, compared to the benchmark of the ASX200, which returned 7% pa over the same time period. Previously, the fund had excluded material investments ...

ESG managed fund fees revealed

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
ESG equities managed funds are cheaper than non-ESG equities funds, according to the latest Rainmaker Information research into wholesale managed fund fees. A review of fees charged by 76 ESG managed funds found they charged an average 0.8% pa, being ...

Aware expands affordable housing portfolio

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
... economics stack up. Buying or developing apartments, leasing at 80% of market rent of the area is a relatively standard benchmark for affordable housing for essential workers. What it meant was us developing a strategy and finding the right opportunities ...

Social premium on the rise: Federated Hermes

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
... research. What we're saying hers that companies that rank in the bottom 10% have underperformed the top 10% company in the benchmark by 17 basis points on average per month, purely on social grounds," said Lewis Grant, senior global equities portfolio ...