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Australian Ethical Investment to reorganise business

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... of product improvements we've made to our super fund, particularly in our insurance offering." The rising Australian equities market has also brought new inflows to Australian Ethical's managed fund offerings both from advised clients and direct cleints ...

NGS Super to launch stand-along SRI fund option

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... lack of uptake in the Green Shares option related more to the fact that it was fairly risky and volatile - it's 100% equities, with 60% Australian equities and 40% international equities. This research showed us that members say that SRI is more important ...

AXA IM: impact investing to drive growth in ESG strategies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... but it's a different strategy," Christensen said. "In terms of the asset focus of impact investing, it is less about equities and more about fixed income and alternatives. Also, if you think of investing as a continuum, if you have a line and we put ...

ACSI: Investors have confidence in ASX100 boards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 AUG 2013  |  NEWS
... of 41 institutional investors participated in the research study, collectively managing AU$265 billion of Australian equities. Participants were asked 17 individual questions about their perceptions across six key areas of board responsibility - leadership ...

Asset owners, managers see climate change as material risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 AUG 2013  |  NEWS
... directly influencing investment decisions - 53% of asset managers said that they decided to divest or not invest in listed equities based on climate change concerns. Also, 56% of asset managers said they have conducted formal or informal climate risk ...

UCA Funds Management holds first investor briefing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... briefing, discussing the structure and returns of its three portfolios, its investment approach to selecting Australian equities and disclosing that a AU$7.7 million loan relating to the now-defunct Acacia College has been repaid. UCA Funds Management ...

Local Government Super selects SSgA for equities mandate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... Local Government Super (LGS) has selected State Street Global Advisors (SSgA) to manage an AU$780 million Australian equities mandate that will include ESG screens. Bill Hartnett The mandate was labeled an "enhanced passive" strategy that will conform ...

RIAA: Responsible Investment portfolios continue to grow

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... average of mainstream funds. The report noted that the 2012 average returns for responsible investment funds (Australian equities) was 21.45%, while Perpetual's Wholesale Ethical SRI Fund was the top performing fund in 2012, returning 39.7% "This goes ...

PRI to launch new reporting, assessment framework in October

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
... she said. "Most of it we've got, but there are still a lot of plugging in gaps as well. We have a lot in place in the equities space and we are doing a lot of work with the fixed income space. Some of the alternative [assets] are where we probably have ...

Barclays and MSCI launch ESG Fixed Income Indices

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
... aggregate, for example. We have also developed sector-neutral versions." The third category builds on a research paper into equities and ESG - Optimizing ESG Factors in Portfolio Construction, published in February by MSCI Barra Applied Research. The ...

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Santos receives takeover offer from Abu Dhabi-led consortium

ANDREW MCKEAN
Santos has received a non-binding $8.89 per share cash offer from the XRG Consortium, led by XRG P.J.S.C., a subsidiary of Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ANDOC), alongside Abu Dhabi's sovereign wealth fund ADQ and US private equity firm Carlyle.

What do the best-functioning boards look like?

KARREN VERGARA
The best-functioning boards are future thinkers, understand their ESG responsibilities and are able to show their "battle scars," according to two governance experts.

Funding lifts for climate, health, people startups

KARREN VERGARA
While funding for impact startups has broadly declined, those operating in climate, health and people has seen funding levels improve compared to three years ago, according to the Impact Startups Benchmark Report 2025.

Mind the gap: Investors' role in balancing fairness and competitiveness in executive pay

ALEXANDRE PROST
Investors have a significant role to play in helping to move the dial on executive remuneration, aiming to increase fairness and reduce inequality.

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