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Schroders' sustainable multi-asset fund receives RIAA certification

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUL 2022  |  NEWS
Schroders has received certification from the Responsible Investment Association Australasia (RIAA) for its newly renamed Sustainable Growth fund. The Schroder Sustainable Growth Fund is Schroders' first sustainable multi-asset strategy available in ...

Australian investors withdraw from ESG funds: Calastone

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUL 2022  |  NEWS
... (except Australian) and every asset class. "The relative resilience of Australian equities reflects the commodity and banking bias on the market. The Australian stock market is one of the highest yielding in the world and that has proven a big draw in ...

EY calls for "fundamental revisit" of corporate sustainability

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUL 2022  |  NEWS
The concept of corporate sustainability needs to be fundamentally revisited, according to a new report from EY. Enough: A review of corporate sustainability, in a world running out of time is the first report in EY's Antithesis project, designed "encourage ...

Business leaders, consumers "fed up" with ESG progress: Oracle

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 28 APR 2022  |  NEWS
... blind, and secondly, how do you action on those decisions?" Nearly all - 95% - of business leaders in Australia reported human bias and emotion often distract from the end goal, and 83% believe organisations that use technology to help drive sustainable ...

Igneo sets 2023 climate targets for infrastructure companies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 7 APR 2022  |  NEWS
Infrastructure manager Igneo Infrastructure Partners has set a 2023 deadline for all portfolio companies to develop net zero roadmaps with short- and medium-term targets on progress. Igneo is First Sentier Investors' direct infrastructure business. ...

Identifying female leadership as driver of value: Vontobel

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAR 2022  |  NEWS
... promote women, companies need to make sure that performance reviewers have training to make sure they are aware of unconscious bias. They also need paid parental leave, providing for an easy recalibration back into the workplace for mothers, and ensuring ...

HSBC Asset Management launches ESG Asia bond fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 24 FEB 2022  |  NEWS
HSBC Asset Management has launched an active fixed income fund investing in Asian bonds with a strong bias towards issuers with sound ESG profiles. The HSBC GIF Asia ESG Bond Fund is set up to have a higher ESG score and a lower carbon intensity score ...

Weighing climate risk in corporate bonds: Insight Investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 10 FEB 2022  |  NEWS
... advancements in data have helped to provide transparency in this rapidly expanding asset class. Issuance currently has a sector bias towards utilities and sovereigns and sovereign agencies but is becoming increasingly diverse." Greater disclosure around ...

Five reasons investors should adopt an active versus passive ESG approach

JOEL CONNELL  |  THURSDAY, 10 FEB 2022  |  NEWS
... personal philosophy around ESG/sustainable investing. As an active manager, Bell Asset Management (Bell) admittedly have a clear bias in the active versus passive debate, but they believe the advantages of an active approach when it comes to ESG are ...

Robeco outlines four themes for 2022 engagement

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 3 FEB 2022  |  NEWS
... they can set this as a priority to drive diversity and I think equally, in terms of inclusion, a lot of work on unconscious bias in terms of hiring practices, other elements that reinforce differences and lack of inclusion in many sectors and I think ...