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Super moves: ART, QIC, Rest, CareSuper

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
... manager's approach to responsible investment, as well as specific activities and analysis relating to the Socially Responsible Investment Option. He began his career in financial markets at BT, where he spent almost four years in client accounts ...

Funds SA loses ESG executive

ELIZABETH FRY  |  MONDAY, 2 DEC 2024  |  NEWS
... investment framework, integrated ESG due diligence within the investment process, redesigned and managed the socially responsible investment option and developed the first Climate Risk Response Plan and associated reporting against the plan. Funds SA ...

ESG demand still high for advisers

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAY 2024  |  NEWS
... Fradley pointed out that economic pressure from the cost-of-living crisis is making people "turn inwards": socially responsible investments have become a "nice to have". "You as an adviser has enormous power with your own bias... if one person has a ...

Media a strong influence on corporate decisions

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 22 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... corporate ESG strategy, and 85% stating that it is important that external parties view their business as "socially responsible". According to the respondents, the top ESG issue of concern was "environment" (42%), followed by "social" (30%), and "governance" ...

Investors lack clarity, rural solutions lack funding

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 26 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
A $300,000 grant program backed by Mike Cannon-Brookes will seek to pair socially responsible entities with rural communities that are on the frontlines of climate change. Developed by the Foundation for Rural and Regional Renewal (FRRR), the grant ...

Bank says fossil fuel exclusions "will bite" in the future

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 31 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
... customer owned bank in Australia, with over 230,000 members and $10.7 billion in assets. Corin Millais, head of socially responsible banking at TMBL said although as a retail bank the mutual bank has never financed or taken funds from any fossil fuel ...

Sustainable, ethical super products fail performance test

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS, JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 31 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
... products have failed this year's superannuation performance test. Australian Retirement Trust's QSuper Socially Responsible option, three of Crescent Wealth's four investment options failed, as did two from Smart Future Trust's smartMonday ...

Ethical investments recover performance: Chant West

ROSE MARY PETRASS, RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
... over the past 12 months, but recent data from the superannuation industry now reveals median returns for socially responsible growth options have either matched or exceeded those of general growth funds. Chant West found ESG options for funds earned ...

Snapshot: The rapid evolution of sustainable investing in Asia

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 3 JUL 2023  |  NEWS
... ESG growth, the study found. Chinese investors are shifting as expectations grow for companies to be more socially responsible. In terms of governance, the Chinese Securities Regulatory Commission recently released a consultation on the role of independent ...

Australians cite ethical investing as advice gap: Investment Trends

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 24 NOV 2022  |  NEWS
... insurance as well as estate planning and annuities. "What's important from an ESG perspective is that ethical and socially responsible investing are areas of unmet need that Australians call out," said Investment Trends research director Dougal Guild. ...