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Integrating impact investing in listed equity portfolios

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... intention to manage investments to that intention, and contribution to the growth of the industry. GIIN has a listed equities working group that applies those principles to the public market sector. Q&A with Hari Balkrishna, Portfolio Manager for the ...

ESG funds show strong risk-adjusted returns: Rainmaker

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 14 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... the RMetrics Workplace Super report. The stand-out over the past three years on a risk-adjusted basis was international equities options, with a return of 8.0% p.a. Rainmaker Information's RMetrics assessment model assesses a product's holistic ...

Global fund managers unite to accelerate natural capital investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 12 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... investing in the preservation, protection and enhancement of nature. Lombard Odier launched a first-of-its-kind global equities investment strategy for natural capital last year, developed in partnership with the Circular Bioeconomy Alliance, established ...

Long short strategies used in environmental equities fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
A BNP Paribas Asset Management equity fund is using long/short strategies to identify in companies that are either finding opportunities in, or facing, the challenges that come with climate change and the global transition to a lower carbon economy. ...

Regnan launches global equity impact fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 10 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
... Impact Solutions Fund invests in global public market impact assets. The fund is offered as part of Regnan's Global Equities Impact strategy which is available in the UK and now in Australia. The strategy is managed by Regnan's London-based investment ...

Best ESG super products recognised

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 3 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
... Rainmaker Information reviewed MySuper products, and asset classes that include growth, balanced, moderate (capital stable), equities, property, bonds, cash and ESG investment options. The methodology also considers one, three, five and 10 year returns. ...

Assessing climate research as part of fund manager performance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 3 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
... decisions are making a difference. We want to see attribution of it, and also, importantly, for example, in terms of listed equities, that idea of informing engagement and proxy voting decisions and efforts as relates to a manager." This evaluation differs ...

ESG funds continue strong performance: Rainmaker

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 3 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
... outperformed the overall equivalent index by 2.5 percentage points over the 12 months to October 2020. The Rainmaker ESG Equities Index, that combines domestic and global equities workplace ESG options, outperformed the overall equivalent index by 2.1 ...

Industry super cuts emissions exposures by 40%

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 26 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
An industry superannuation fund has cut the carbon emission exposures of its equities portfolios by 40% over the previous year through the introduction of carbon-constrained benchmarks. Aware Super has created a new series of listed equities benchmarks ...

Social, economic consequences of climate change "devastating": Robeco

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 26 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
... alternatives. But there are challenges in evaluating companies' emissions data, said Joop Huij, head of factor investing equities and factor index research. "If we look at the data, at the very best, it's self-reported data - it's biased," ...