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Unconventional gas development poses risks to investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... Asset Management, Berrutti said. "We've got a range of different investment teams at Colonial, some focused on Australian equities, and so they have potential exposure through Santos and the domestically listed companies. Any large investor in Australia ...

Hermes Fund Managers launch quant ESG equity strategy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... Government Super (LGS) has awarded a AU$90m mandate for the strategy. The strategy combines Hermes' existing quantitative equities process with its proprietary "ESG Dashboard" to allow institutional investors to design global equities portfolios that ...

AXA IM brings ESG equities analytic framework to Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
... added later. "This roll-out will still require the customisation to team capacity," Christensen said. "In the UK, [the equities team] have a specific way of working together, and it doesn't mean that every team and every country works the same way. I ...

Cruelty Free Super celebrates second birthday

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
... option, we are also invested in fixed income. From an ethical perspective, corporate bonds are treated the same way as equities." Cruelty Free Super's membership base is overwhelmingly women - 70% of members - and young - more than 70% are under 35 years ...

Citi: "Carbon bubble" represents 1-2% of ASX200 value

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... Macmahon, Monadelphous, NRW Holdings, Orica, QR National, Transfield Services, UGL, WorleyParsons)," according to Citi equities research. "If we were to do valuation analysis now, assuming that in 10-15 years' time people wouldn't like to use coal, how ...

Solaris Investment Management augments distribution

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... aligns our objectives with those we manage investments for now and in the future." Solaris is a style-neutral Australian equities boutique fund manager. The firm, a UNPRI signatory, uses ESG considerations as one of its qualitative analysis factors. ...

PRI commitment spurs high-level action by Neuberger Berman

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... asking us about how we assess ESG." Neuberger Berman operates in an autonomous fashion, with 44 investment teams covering equities, fixed income, private equity and alternative asset classes. We have one dedicated socially responsible equities investment ...

Investors conducting climate change risk assessments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... come to grips, but notwithstanding, it's a very challenging field and there is a lot of uncertainty around it." Listed equities continue to be the most monitored asset class when it comes to climate risk, and respondents are most likely to engage with ...

Australian Ethical management survive general meeting vote

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... fees across managed funds and superannuation. Its flagship Smaller Companies Trust will divest itself of all offshore equities, and the Property Trust has been closed to all but wholesale investors, Smith said. "A lot of this has been a planned managed ...

Investor Profile: Five Oceans Asset Management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
Five Oceans Asset Management is an international equities fund manager that uses concentrated, non-index relative approaches to building portfolios of listed global equities. The company has integrated environmental, social and corporate governance ...