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Ethical Advisers' Co-operative AUM reach nearly $1 billion

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
... Management, DJ Carmichael, Ethical Investment Advisers, Tas Ethical, Ethical Investment Services, and Guidance Financial Services. Investors are putting new money into a variety of diverse ethically screened products, but superannuation and direct investments ...

AXA IM ESG SmartBeta fund 5% stronger than benchmark

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
... Index (ACWI) SmartBeta Equity Fund was launched in September in Australia and was seeded from local Australian Financial Services licensee Financial Index Wealth Accountants (FIWA). The strategy currently has AU$70 million in assets under management ...

Teachers Mutual Bank leads in community investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 FEB 2015  |  NEWS
... (LBG). The 4.55% figure is AU$1.67 million of pre-tax profits for the mutual bank, and it is 12.6 times the financial services sector average for Australia and New Zealand, Teachers Mutual Bank said. Teachers Mutual Banks' average contribution per full-time ...

Good Shepherd Microfinance, Suncorp pilot microinsurance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JAN 2015  |  NEWS
... which is very exciting." The microinsurance product offering expands on Good Shepherd Microfinance's existing financial services products. In Victoria, Good Shepherd Microfinance operates three Good Money retail sites that provide access to microfinance ...

Christian Super selects three impact investment funds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 DEC 2014  |  NEWS
... investment funds with defined environmental and social benefits. Christian Super has selected Laudex, a Mexican financial services company that provides student loans for the purposes of social development, the IFC Catalyst Fund, a private equity fund ...

Altius Asset Management launches sustainable bond fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 DEC 2014  |  NEWS
... representatives - Trevor Thomas, managing director of Ethinvest, and Matthew Moore, senior portfolio manager from Uniting Financial Services. Moore also sits on the Uniting Church (NSW) Synods Ethical Investment Committee and is a former director of ...

RIAA panel discusses tackling ESG duties, opportunities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2014  |  NEWS
... is, objectively, we can see that the vast majority of credible institutions around the world do. Insurers, financial services companies, governments, business and economic think tanks. So looking at that, it doesn't matter what we think - we can objectively ...

AXA IM to offer impact investing fund of funds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 NOV 2014  |  NEWS
... IM All Country World Index (ACWI) SmartBeta Equity Fund was seeded with AU$55 million from local Australian Financial Services Licensee, Financial Index Wealth Accountants (FIWA). The fund's strategy has been developed by AXA Rosenberg, the quantitative ...

Investors apply ethical screens to cash management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2014  |  NEWS
... Thomas noted that now that the second tier and mutual banks have been permitted to provide a fuller range of financial services, there is a wider supply of credit instruments that are investible. "The second tier banks didn't have the facility to offer ...

Panel discusses fossil fuel divestment for super funds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... care, skill and diligence in relation to all matters affecting the fund, noted Maged Girgis, a partner in the financial services practice at Minter Ellison. "The duty of care, skill and diligence, and the duty to ask in the best interest of the members ...