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Islamic fund to expand into banking

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 16 SEP 2021  |  NEWS
... Financial Services currently provide lending services for homes and investment properties as well as superannuation and managed funds, but obtaining the restricted ADI license would allow them to expand to a fuller suite of financial services including ...

Analysing the opportunities, challenges of the ESG investing sector

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 SEP 2021  |  NEWS
... managed using responsible investment techniques increased from 30 to 40%, faster than the increase of professionally managed funds in 2020, which grew overall by 2%. However, asset managers need to focus on embedding ESG processes and demonstrating how ...

Responsible investment surges past $1tn mark: RIAA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 SEP 2021  |  NEWS
... managed using responsible investment techniques increased from 30 to 40%, faster than the increase of professionally managed funds in 2020, which grew overall by 2%. "Leading practice responsible investment is growing at 15 times the rate that overall ...

PRI augments Australian team with hires

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 31 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
... supports 4,000 signatories globally who represent over US$121 trillion in AUM or more than half of all institutionally managed funds. In Australia, PRI have over 190 signatories, managing $1.1 trillion in AUM.

Record FUM growth at Australian Ethical

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 26 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
... respectively on the previous financial year. The Australian Ethical super fund's FUM increased 43% to $3.9 billion and managed funds FUM increased 63% to $2.17 billion. Managed funds net flows increased 122% to $0.42 billion. Australian Ethical's ...

Global sustainable investment grows 15%: GSIA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUL 2021  |  NEWS
... sustainable investment industry has grown to US$35.3 trillion. Canada has the highest proportion of sustainably managed funds at 62% of total AUM, followed by Europe, on 42%, Australasia at 38%, the United States at 33% and Japan on 24%. The report shows ...

ASIC reviewing greenwashing in financial products

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 15 JUL 2021  |  NEWS
... investment strategy is as 'green' or ESG-focused as claimed." The aim of the review is to examine super funds and managed funds to determine "the extent to which greenwashing may be evident in the funds management space," similar to the way that ASIC ...

Ethical fund manager sees 50% spike in AUM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 15 JUL 2021  |  NEWS
... result was driven by a net inflow of $1.03 billion and investment performance of $990 million. Australian Ethical's managed funds FUM was $2.17 billion, consisting of net inflows of $420 million and market performance of $420 million. Superannuation ...

Wholesale managed funds continue strong performance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
... management, are also screened against the company's ethical charter. Rounding out the top five ESG wholesale managed funds in terms of their three year returns were the BetaShares Global Sustainability Leaders ETF, with 21.0% return, the Australian ...

ESG managed fund fees revealed

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
ESG equities managed funds are cheaper than non-ESG equities funds, according to the latest Rainmaker Information research into wholesale managed fund fees. A review of fees charged by 76 ESG managed funds found they charged an average 0.8% pa, being ...