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Ellerston ramps up exclusions list

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 23 SEP 2024  |  NEWS
Ellerston Capital will take a flexible approach to ESG considerations, but will exclude direct investments in tobacco, pornography, old growth forest logging, and thermal coal production. The asset manager has updated its product disclosure statement ...

Watchdog cracks down on climate reporting

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 23 SEP 2024  |  NEWS
... effective from 1 January for large companies and financial institutions. In the interim, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) will continue its enforcement on voluntary sustainability disclosures and crackdown against misleading ...

Ultra rich bet on green energy for data

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 20 SEP 2024  |  NEWS
... private wealth's hunger for clean energy and the global digital revolution. The asset management giant's Green Investments arm is now selling private market access to ultra-high-net-worth clients and family offices. Increasingly, some wealthy ...

Nature now a fiduciary duty and financial risk

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 16 SEP 2024  |  NEWS
... Protection Agency (EPA). "The penny is dropping in boardrooms everywhere: Nature represents a material financial risk to investments including those held in everyday Australians' retirement savings," Estelle Parker, Co-CEO of RIAA. RIAA is partnering ...

Schroders quietly backpedals on carbon

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 9 SEP 2024  |  NEWS
... (RIAA). From September, the investment manager has changed its tobacco exclusions policy automatically applied to direct investments in company-issued public securities where it has discretion over security selection for Schroders funds in Australia. ...

UBS passive strategies flagged on human rights

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 5 SEP 2024  |  NEWS
... abuses against Uyghur minorities in China. For the first time, the watchdog ruled banks have responsibility for passive investments through index funds. In 2019, CalSTRS, CalPERS, JPMorgan Chase, BNP Paribas, Wells Fargo, Barclays, Bank of America, Fifth ...

ClearBridge launches new ESG fund

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 SEP 2024  |  NEWS
ClearBridge Investments has launched the Global Value Improvers Fund, which aims to provide exposure to undervalued companies and those that are currently improving on ESG measures. This comes after ClearBridge launched its first global equity option ...

Nothing to fear: Sustainable investing trade-offs

MIRZA BAIG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 SEP 2024  |  NEWS
... fundamental part of all types of investment; the key is to be clear about one's objectives. This paper explains: why all investments entail trade-offs the importance of having clear objectives some of the trade-offs pertaining to specific sustainable ...

Firms on back foot: Warning on reporting delays

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 2 SEP 2024  |  NEWS
... quarterly, and 43% at least once per month. "The creation of dedicated ESG teams, the rise in specialised roles, and investments in sustainability reporting, all indicate a strategic shift toward embedding sustainability into their core operations," ...

Asset manager defends climate group exit

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 26 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
... Group, Aristotle Credit and Aristotle Pacific Capital, Vert Asset Management, Mellon Investment Corp, Clearbridge Investments and Segal Marco Advisors. The firms left as the US Republican-led House Judiciary Committee claimed the group violated US antitrust ...