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PRI working group calls for sustainable palm oil commitments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... said Mark Mills, chair of the PRI's Sustainable Palm Oil Investor Working Group and partner, Generation Investment Management. "Investors have an important role to play in restricting the supply of capital to those who do not adhere to such principles ...

Australian Ethical puts tobacco resolution to TOMRA AGM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... UNPRI clearinghouse. Australian Ethical has received support from Rathbone Greenbank Investments and Triodos Investment Management as well as other institutional shareholders, Vernon said. "It was interesting to note that many investors weren't aware ...

VicSuper integrates governance risk into bond portfolio

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... developed the new benchmark in consultation with their investment adviser, Towers Watson, and with BlackRock Investment Management and index provider Barclays Capital. "We are concerned about sovereign debt," said Ronan Walsh, portfolio manager, fixed ...

Mercer study to investigate shareholder loyalty rewards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... Canadian law firm Stikeman Elliott LLP and the Generation Foundation - the philanthropic arm of Generation Investment Management - will conduct interviews and focus groups to gain understanding of the impacts of short-termism from stakeholders including ...

Cruelty Free Super celebrates second birthday

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
... jaundiced view of the engagement issue as well, and the reason for that is that there is the engagement that the investment management community does, and there's the engagement that the public would want them to do, or expects them to do. There is a ...

Southern Cross Renewable Energy Fund funds Brisbane Metals

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... technology. "Importantly, Southern Cross Venture Partners and NVP will provide Brisbane Materials with active investment management support to help it overcome the challenges of commercialisation." The Southern Cross Renewable Energy Fund is an AU$200m ...

Solaris Investment Management augments distribution

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
Solaris Investment Management has hired Neale Goldston-Morris as investment specialist, representing the fund manager to the institutional investment market. Goldston-Morris comes to Solaris from Macquarie Securities, where he was director, head of ...

Superannuation funds aware of ESG macro-impact

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... decisions, and not merely as issues in individual companies, according to boutique fund manager Solaris Investment Management. Lisa Domagala, Solaris ESG analyst, said that macro-level ESG and systemic issues was a major theme of the UN PRI conference ...

Investors conducting climate change risk assessments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... included as criteria in requests for proposals and due diligence processes, they are rarely included in investment management agreements, the survey found. "There needs to be a greater uptake by superannuation funds of the available tools," Birgden said. ...

Investor Profile: Omega Global Investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... approach, incorporating managed volatility and fundamental analysis. We combine some quantitative models with investment management oversight to build a portfolio that's got low absolute risk and that's got high exposure to governments with positive ...