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Superannuation funds accelerate climate action: ClimateWorks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... portfolio, and Aware Super's announced plans to divest from thermal coal miners and reduce emissions in its listed equities portfolio by at least 30% by 2023. "This is the first time that this has happened in Australia, and it's all happened ...

IIG launches alternative fund-of funds impact strategy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... yield, liquidity and attractive risk-adjusted returns. The Impact Alternatives Fund will target low correlation to listed equities, bonds and property, with a return objective of 6-10% p.a. pre-tax, post fees and costs. The income yield objective is ...

RealIndex appoints former Acadian executive

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 17 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
Systematic equities manager Realindex Investments has hired Joanna Nash to the newly created role of senior quantitative portfolio manager. Nash has 13 years' quantitative investment experience including senior roles at Acadian, where she was a ...

Cbus Super announces net zero portfolio emissions target

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... Change Roadmap, under which Cbus will put in place processes to achieve portfolio targets for each asset class, including equities. Cbus already has specific net zero emissions target for property by 2030 and infrastructure by 2050, said Kristian Fok ...

Paradice Investment Management appoint head of ESG

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... 2007, the Global Small Cap Strategy in 2010 and recently the Global Emerging Markets Strategy and Long Short Australian Equities Strategy in 2019. In his previous role at Ausbil, Varcoe spoke with FS Sustainability about the investment risks of plastic ...

Do founder-led listed companies outperform on E, S and G metrics?

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... by several sources as examples of founders with strong environmental and social focuses. Emilie O'Neill, ESG and equities analyst at Perennial, performed an analysis of 15 founder-led companies and compared it to their in-house ESG database and found ...

Northern Trust expands ESG Insights risk analytics suite

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... Taskforce for Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), Northern Trust said. The ESG Analytics Service covers listed equities and corporate fixed income, but in future, it could be extended to other asset classes. Providing analytics relating to ...

Online investors applying ESG criteria: Investment Trends

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... Trends has released its 2020 1H Online InvestingReport, which gathers data on the preferences and behaviours of online equities and ETF investors in Australia. The report found that between December 2019 and June 2020, the number of active online investors ...

Investors to increase climate-linked passive investments: DWS Group

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... Agreement. Cap-weighted index funds as their favourite passive vehicle of choice, cited by 70% of respondents, and 89% treat equities as their favourite underlying asset class. "The emphasis in the beginning was very much on risk mitigation," Rajan said. ...

ESG superannuation funds outperform in torrid year: Rainmaker

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... percentage points - the overall index showed a -1.5% loss, while the ESG equivalent had a return of 0.3%. The Rainmaker ESG Equities Index that combines domestic and global equities workplace ESG options slightly underperformed the overall equivalent ...