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Experts warn of trustees' climate change litigation risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2015  |  NEWS
... answer to that is yes, then you need to start considering the strategic implications. What does that mean for our investment policy? How does that translate down to our asset allocations, our manager mandates? - all the way down the investment chain. ...

New Forests launches responsible investment policy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 APR 2015  |  NEWS
New Forests has rolled out a first-ever responsible investment policy and reported total assets under management of AU$2.5 billion in its 2014 sustainability report. New Forests, a private sustainable real assets investment manager, also implemented ...

Investors to engage with payday lenders over practices

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
... this time. UCA Funds Management excludes investment in Cash Converters and Thorn Group as part of their ethical investment policy, Walsh said. "When we started this process, we had Thorn Group and Cash Converters as excluded companies," Walsh said. "We ...

NSW develops first social impact investment policy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 FEB 2015  |  NEWS
... bringing two new social impact investment transactions to market per year as part of a ten-point social impact investment policy announced this week. Daniel Madhavan, CEO, Impact Investing Australia NSW is the first state in Australia to articulate a ...

Universities "fail" on climate risk mitigation: AODP

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JAN 2015  |  NEWS
... points as its proxy voting policy online. The latter received points for incorporating climate change into its investment policy, despite a lack of clarity on how it was implemented. There was no publicly available information on their management of ...

Investment and the art of political maintenance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 DEC 2014  |  NEWS
... normative. Normative decisions are backed by a values-based process or policy, and that process of establishing an investment policy and implementing that agenda has political weight. "I don't think it's any super fund's ambition to be partisan political ...

Christian Super selects three impact investment funds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 DEC 2014  |  NEWS
... strategic goals of the fund - both the ability to find well priced risk adjusted investments and to fit the ethical investment policy of the fund, Murphy said. The fund has chosen to dedicate some of the time of policy analyst Simba Marekera to the task ...

PRI announces new Advisory Council members

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 DEC 2014  |  NEWS
... Their automatic confirmation was the result of Eric Loiselet, member of the board of directors, chairman of the investment policy monitoring committee, ERAPF, withdrawing his candidature on 21 October, PRI said. PRI further confirmed the qualification ...

Investors apply ethical screens to cash management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2014  |  NEWS
... environmental, social and governance (ESG) matters. The recently launched Future Super is operating under the investment policy of zero investments in fossil fuels. The fund launched a month ago and was founded by Adam Verwey, formerly a senior relationships ...

Australian National University Investment Office selects CAER

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
... responsible for managing the university's funds and preparing investment strategy and other asset allocation and investment policy papers for consideration by the University's governing bodies, according to ANU. The Investment Office internally manages ...