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Aus funds hit by outflows, global gains for passive ESG

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 29 JUL 2024  |  NEWS
... for sustainable products, this is more due to the rising interest rate environment putting pressure on active asset management margins, constraining their growth ambitions," said Morningstar local senior manager research analyst Shamir Popat. He added ...

MLC awards $285m mandate to Janus Henderson

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUL 2024  |  NEWS
MLC Asset Management has awarded Janus Henderson a $285 million emerging markets equities mandate. Janus Henderson said the mandate showcased the growing need for Australian institutional investors to have exposure beyond major market indices. The mandate ...

LGIM, Generation, MUFG to report on nature

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 1 JUL 2024  |  NEWS
... systemically important banks (GSIBs). The financial institutions include LGIM, Generation Investment Management and MUFG Asset Management. David Blood, senior partner, Generation Investment Management, said: "To achieve a world which protects nature ...

Women continue to lag in asset management

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUN 2024  |  NEWS
Women make up 28% of the industry, but at the current rate of promotion and retention, investment teams will reach gender parity at the end of the decade. Progress is slow and poaching is rife in Australia's $4.3 trillion investment sector, with a four-point ...

First dedicated transition fund for emerging markets

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 20 JUN 2024  |  NEWS
... and Central America, South and Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe. As fund manager, Brookfield Asset Management has been put to work identifying the pipeline of potential investments and pre-marketing to possible investment partners ...

Palisade Real Assets wins mandate

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 20 JUN 2024  |  NEWS
... Assets' UK-based bioenergy fund scored a £200 million ($381m) mandate from a major European asset manager. APG Asset Management awarded the mandate on behalf of Netherlands' major pension fund ABP, which oversees some €500 billion ($805bn) ...

Global investors unite for Climate Action 100+

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 3 JUN 2024  |  NEWS
... leveraging active ownership towards better climate governance. This includes BlackRock, State Street and JP Morgan Asset Management which exited early this year. Australia's Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC), which runs the network locally ...

Brookfield bids for majority stake in Neoen

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 3 JUN 2024  |  NEWS
... supply Microsoft with over 10,000 megawatts of renewable power, the largest deal of its kind globally. Brookfield Asset Management renewable power and transition chief executive Connor Teskey praised Neoen for building one of the world's greatest ...

Australian Ethical snaps up asset manager

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAY 2024  |  NEWS
Australian Ethical has struck a deal to acquire Altius Asset Management, the sustainable fixed income business of Australian Unity, a move that will see its funds under management (FUM) swell by $2 billion. The acquisition will see both firms merge ...

ESG fund performance leans on growth

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 20 MAY 2024  |  NEWS
... via a Dublin domiciled UCITS Fund. The executive director and sustainable equities portfolio manager at Nomura Asset Management UK said the strategy targets 2-3% outperformance of MSCI All Country World Index (ACWI), the global equity index. Beyond this ...