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Podcast: How direct indexing could supercharge ESG investing

THE GREENER WAY  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2025  |  NEWS
While still at a very nascent stage in Australia, direct indexing holds great potential - particularly for ESG and responsible investors. Investing in line with your values is a very idiosyncratic desire as what's important to one investor can differ ...

ETF Shares to bolster sales team

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUN 2025  |  NEWS
... It's a rare opportunity to help shape the future of financial services from the ground up." ETF Shares - the first new index ETF issuer to launch in Australia in over a decade - began trading in May and has already accumulated $20 million in assets ...

Proposals against ESG, DEI to increase: Proxy advisor

MATT TOLEDO  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAY 2025  |  NEWS
... decelerated, with ISS-Corporate expecting more companies to eliminate these metrics this proxy season. Of companies in the S&P 500 Index, 10% applied DEI metrics in executive compensation in 2021, rising to 41% in 2023 and staying flat in 2024, according ...

Index investors keen on proxy voting: Vanguard

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAY 2025  |  NEWS
... firms altogether for the ability to influence proxy voting. "At Vanguard, we believe long-term shareholders - including index fund investors - play a critical role in a healthy corporate governance ecosystem," Galloway said. "Proxy voting is central ...

Munro takes climate fund to New Zealand

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 14 APR 2025  |  NEWS
... the circular economy and energy efficiency. It also aims to achieve a return greater than the MSCI All Country World (Net) Index in $NZ (Net) over a five- to seven-year period. Having launched in 2021, the Munro Climate Change Leaders Fund has returned ...

Future Super, Verve to overhaul investments

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 14 APR 2025  |  NEWS
... leadership, and inclusivity. The new option focused on gender equity will screen for the same five thematics as its Gender Equity Index does: gender pay parity, anti-sexual harassment and workplace safety policies and practices; formal commitments to ...

Quinbrook achieves record financing for solar, battery storage project

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
... ensuring that it is compensated for having enough power during high demand. The agreement could bring the total contracted and index linked revenues for the project to over £480 million, Quinbrook added. Lloyds head of infrastructure and project finance ...

ESG funds third-best performing asset class

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 17 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
... stable," Rainmaker said. Over a three-year period, Vanguard's three products - International Shares Select Exclusion Index Fund, Ethically Conscious International Shares Index Fund, and Ethically Conscious International Shares Index ETF, dominated ...

GCQ enters ETF market, expands sales team

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... power of marquee companies. The firm said its portfolio's net return for January was 6.4% compared to the MSCI World AUD index, which was 2.4% for the month. Returns were broad-based, with a meaningful contribution from Richmond Amazon, Visa Inc. ...

Vanguard ESG funds rake in highest inflows: Rainmaker

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 24 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... inflows in the year to December 2024, new Rainmaker Information research found. The International Shares Select Exclusion Index Fund, one of Vanguard's three unit trusts making up the top 10, raked in $270 million to end up with $1.1 billion at the end ...