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Aussie asset managers rise to RI challenge

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 OCT 2024  |  NEWS
... calendar year. In Australia, more standouts included First Sentier Investors, Australian Ethical Investment, Nuveen, and Russell Investments. T. Rowe Price also earned its place. Caroline Ramscar, APAC ESG specialist at T. Rowe Price said: "As a long-standing ...

Asset owners embrace sustainable investment

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 4 OCT 2024  |  NEWS
... sustainability as core to their total investment strategy, at 86%. While implementation dipped at smaller asset owners, FTSE Russell does not believe this will impact the long-term trend of growth and sophistication of sustainable investing. Aligning ...

Green jobs: Societe Generale, Iress, U Ethical, CDP, TISFD

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 26 SEP 2024  |  NEWS
... public policy think tank, Zoe Whitton has been elected new board chair. She takes over from AustralianSuper chair Don Russell. Currently executive director at specialist climate change investment and advisory firm Pollination, Whitton has expertise in ...

Catastrophe bill blows up to $90bn

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 15 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
... insured losses for Oceania/Australia for the half of were $452m. UBS insurance and diversified financial analyst Scott Russell said the rising cost of cleaning up after major weather events is a common theme in the developed world. "In Australia, the ...

Russell Investments introduces new ESG-focused ETF

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 APR 2024  |  NEWS
Russell Investments has launched its first multi-strategy exchange-traded fund (ETF) in Australia, offering investors access to an actively managed portfolio of international shares with a focus on environmental, social and governance (ESG) considerations. ...

ESG indices linked to Myanmar junta

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAR 2024  |  NEWS
... have responded to allegations they listed companies with links to the Myanmar military junta. The indices, MSCI, FTSE Russell and S&P Dow Jones, were used by BlackRock, Deutsche Bank, Northern Trust, State Street and Vanguard to model ESG-labelled funds. ...

ISSB publishes jurisdictional guide, seeks experts

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 26 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... general-purpose financial reports. Fund managers welcome ISSB's progress on sustainability standards. Fiona Basset, CEO of FTSE Russell, said the work of the ISSB will help financiers make better informed decisions to allocate capital. "Markets need ...

ANZ sustainable fund flows buck global trend: Morningstar

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 1 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... Fund Advisors on 11.3%, Betashares at 10.6%, Vanguard on 6.5%, Mercer Investments at 5.4%, Pendal Institutional at 4.7%, Russell Investment Management on 4%, BlackRock at 3.8%, State Street Global Advisors with 2.8% and U Ethical at 2.6%. Two new sustainable ...

Assessing companies ability to make the low carbon transition

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 6 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... definitions around climate and transition, noted Tony Campos, head of sustainable investment, Index Investments Group at FTSE Russell. To help answer that challenge, FTSE Russell has partnered with the Transition Pathway Initiative (TPI) to develop a ...

ESG factors increasingly drive financial decisions

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 30 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... managers believe ESG factors do not drive investment decisions, down from 22% in 2022. Global investment solutions firm Russell Investments released its ninth-annual ESG Manager Survey, surveying 169 asset managers representing $20 trillion in assets ...