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AMP Capital hire Kristen Le Mesurier

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 OCT 2015  |  NEWS
... unique perspective to the ESG Investment Research team, which provides proprietary investment insights to AMP Capital's equities and fixed income investment teams. The team also actively engages with companies and other stakeholders on a range of ESG ...

Q&A: Richard Brandweiner, CIO First State Super

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2015  |  NEWS
... role as an owner of Australian companies, we're at a size now where we effectively own the whole market of Australian equities. A lot of alpha generating opportunities are not available to us because of our size. We're exposed to the beta side of the ...

Demand for ethical products strong: Ethical Advisers' Co-Op

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2015  |  NEWS
... and even cash options." Another asset class where is more interest than product is in real estate, Baird said. In the equities space, JustInvest and "at least three other firms" in the Ethical Advisers Co-Op have launched separately managed accounts ...

NZ Super Fund releases PRI report, assessment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2015  |  NEWS
... selection, appointment and monitoring in listed equity, and was also awarded an A for its active ownership of listed equities, based on its engagement and a B for proxy voting. "We believe that environmental, social and governance factors are material ...

UCA Funds Management select Northern Trust

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2015  |  NEWS
... the Uniting Ethical Enhanced Cash Trust and the Uniting Growth Fund will become known as the Uniting Ethical Australian Equities Trust. UCA Funds Management is an entity of the Uniting Church of Australia, Synod of Victoria and Tasmania, and provides ...

UCA Funds Management to convert funds to MIS

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2015  |  NEWS
... the Uniting Ethical Enhanced Cash Trust and the Uniting Growth Fund will become known as the Uniting Ethical Australian Equities Trust. "We're travelling through this plan of changing funds management a bit to be more of a commercial funds management ...

PRI outlines portfolio carbon reduction strategies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2015  |  NEWS
... ecosystem-related or resource-related." However, active ownership and ESG incorporation is most advanced typically in listed equities, and integrating climate change risk into analysis of fixed income issuance is "possible and underway" to some degree. ...

Inflection Point Capital Management launches Zero Carbon

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2015  |  NEWS
Inflection Point Capital Management and La Francaise have created a climate-themed global equities fund, vested with â,¬ 25 million in seed capital from La Francaise. Gordon Noble, senior portfolio analyst, Inflection Point Capital Management The ...

Early stages for ESG-factor investing: Northern Trust

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2015  |  NEWS
... with The Sustainability Report while in Australia recently. Northern Trust is highlighting the firm's ability to tailor equities products - an approach they called engineered equity - and integrate ESG performance screens as part of their asset management ...

Climate change impacts on investments "inevitable": Mercer

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2015  |  NEWS
... depending on the climate change scenario. Mercer notes that a 2C scenario could see return benefits for emerging market equities, infrastructure, real estate, timber and agriculture. Under a 4C scenario, there could be negatively impacts on emerging ...