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Wealth managers under pressure on returns, ESG: Accenture

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 26 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
... demands from investors to expand their ESG offerings to deliver returns from the "right" types of products and also want passive fund holdings to drive "meaningful change at companies they invest in and expand into direct indexing." In tandem, ESG has ...

ESG funds, ETPs see billion-dollar inflows

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 12 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
... went into what Morningstar identifies as sustainable funds, split 66% towards active strategies, or $4.791 billion, with passive seeing $2.498 billion or 34%. "The Australian sustainable funds market remains quite concentrated, with the top 20 funds ...

Corporate super fund sets net zero target

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 29 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
... TelstraSuper has flagged steps that it will take including targeting specific investments in low carbon opportunities, reviewing passive listed equity benchmarks, measuring baseline emissions and disclosing to members the first quantitative report of ...

Investors lag in integrating climate risk: PGIM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 25 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
... and that's a tactical problem," Antia said. "The more strategic point is that there is this overwhelming push for passive index approaches, and passive index approaches stumble when it comes to climate change because they're not able to take ...

Industry super cuts emissions exposures by 40%

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 26 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
... its listed equities portfolio by a minimum of 30% by 2023. The benchmarks are designed to enable Aware Super's external passive and systematic investment managers to implement their strategies so that the resulting combined equities portfolio excludes ...

Australian passive sustainable funds grow to $3.6 billion: Morningstar

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
Australian passive sustainable funds stand at $3.6 billion, but launches of passive sustainable funds have slowed after a peak in 2018, according to research from Morningstar. Morningstar tracked the growth of sustainable passive funds, that as of June ...

U Ethical hires two to investments team

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... ANZ and UBS. O'Connor has experience gained from investment banking and investment management roles, covering active and passive portfolio management, credit, rates, money market and foreign exchange. Her particular interests include active credit and ...

Investors to increase climate-linked passive investments: DWS Group

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
Pension funds around the world intend to increase their climate-linked passive allocations over the next three years, according to a survey sponsored by fund manager DWS Group. Sebastian Schiele, head of passive mandates sales, Europe and Asia Pacific ...

CEFC commits up to $125m in Qualitas property debt fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
... solar generation on the available roof area," Qualitas said. These standards will be achieved through a combination of passive design, upgraded building fabrics such as insulation and glazing, high-efficiency HVAC plant, energy efficient appliances such ...

Energy Super taps Robeco for $650m enhanced indexing mandate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
... quite a bit of interest in the sustainable aspects of enhanced indexing," Dennis said. "There's a lot of money going into passive investing in Australia. The clients realise that they can, for incremental increases in fees, they can target an alpha that ...