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AODP releases 2016 Global Climate 500 Index

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAY 2016  |  NEWS
Three Australian superannuation funds have achieved the highest mark of AAA in the 2016 Asset Owners Disclosure Project (AODP)'s 2016 benchmark index. AODP this week released the 2016 Global Climate 500 Index, which rates the world's 500 biggest asset ...

VicSuper establishes Climate Change Steering Committee

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 APR 2016  |  NEWS
VicSuper has established a Climate Change and Investments Steering Committee, which will create the superannuation fund's strategy to manage climate change risk across their portfolio. The Climate Change and Investments Steering Committee is headed ...

Investors call for affordable housing bonds, aggregating body

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 APR 2016  |  NEWS
... place to rent, or experience insecurity due to rental stress. In Cbus's submission, the AU$32 billion industry superannuation fund expressed support for one of the models outlined in the working group's terms of reference - a large intermediary aggregator ...

Urgent need for social impact metrics development

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2016  |  NEWS
... need to develop comparable, reportable metrics, and are collecting data for interpretation as they go along. Superannuation fund HESTA last year established an AU$30 million Social Impact Investment Trust and allocated AU$6.7 million of that amount to ...

Q&A: Madeleine Senior, Bert Rebelo, Northern Trust

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAR 2016  |  NEWS
... Asset Management perspective? BR: We spoke about Quality ESG, and there was a lot of work that was led by NZ Superannuation Fund. We spoke to you about that two years ago, and it's finally funded now. The performance of the last five months has been ...

Impact Investing Australia launches inaugural Australian survey

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAR 2016  |  NEWS
... following the report's presentation, Richard Brandweiner, CIO of the AU$53 billion First State Super industry superannuation fund, noted that while funds like his were increasingly considering their role as universal owners of the Australian economy ...

RIAA certifies three super funds as responsible investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAR 2016  |  NEWS
... Australian Ethical Super, Christian Super and Local Government Super have been certified under RIAA's new whole of superannuation fund category. "[The whole of superannuation fund category] is more than just the responsible investment strategies as applied ...

Pauline Vamos to step down as ASFA CEO

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 FEB 2016  |  NEWS
Pauline Vamos is stepping down as CEO of the Association of Superannuation Funds (ASFA), after eight and a half years in the role. The ASFA board will commence its recruitment process shortly and have asked Vamos to stay on to at least the end of June ...

Fund members concerned about climate change risk: CFGAM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2016  |  NEWS
... Reynolds from the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership conducted a survey of 1,000 Australian superannuation fund members as part of the Cambridge University Masters of Sustainability Leadership program. The survey showed that 73% of respondents ...

Can sustainability considerations drive corporate innovation?

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JAN 2016  |  NEWS
... there is a lot of interesting collaborative work going on." Black pointed to recent announcements such as superannuation fund HESTA making allocations to social investments such as affordable housing as an example of funds coming through on commitments ...