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IML launches Sustainable Future Fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 17 JAN 2023  |  NEWS
... companies on E, S and G components, and the lowest of the three scores is counted, Wood said. The Sustainable Future Fund also screens out companies that 'do significant harm', including companies that derive more than 10% of their revenue from tobacco ...

ASIC issues more greenwashing fines

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 9 JAN 2023  |  NEWS
... Cruelty Free Super website "may have been false or misleading by overstating exclusions, otherwise known as investment screens. In these statements, [Cruelty Free Super] claimed to prevent investment in companies involved in 'polluting and carbon ...

Vanguard quits net zero investor initiative

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 8 DEC 2022  |  NEWS
... significant tobacco sales." Vanguard labelled the error an "unintended misdescription in the PDS" of the exclusionary screens and said that the relevant webpages and fact sheets were accurate in their description of the exclusionary screens. "The PDS ...

ASIC fines Vanguard for greenwashing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 DEC 2022  |  NEWS
... exclusion of those investments." Vanguard labelled the error an "unintended misdescription in the PDS" of the exclusionary screens and said that the relevant webpages and fact sheets were accurate in their description of the exclusionary screens. "The ...

Vanguard, Hejaz, abrdn launch sustainable products

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 20 OCT 2022  |  NEWS
... management. The Hejaz Property Fund (applies an ethical overlay to invest in globally listed REITs. The fund applies negative screens to exclude investment assets based upon the nature of their business activities and their failure to meet financial ...

Podcast: Democratising climate impact investing with Camille Socquet-Clerc

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 25 AUG 2022  |  NEWS
... The fund currently holds 75 investments, including Tesla and Cleanaway Waste Management Limited. The fund uses positive screens to invest in funds that are aligned to Project Drawdown, which identifies 80 climate solutions to reverse global warming ...

Innova launches ESG model portfolios

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUL 2022  |  NEWS
... identified Australian charities. The Innova Sustainable Future Managed Account Solution portfolios apply negative and positive screens in its construction, with positive tilts to companies supporting climate action, life on earth, sustainable resource ...

Rainmaker reveals ESG super fund leaders

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUN 2022  |  NEWS
... they may be trying to incorporate the Sustainable Development Goals rather than just declare their negative investment screens," Dunnin added. "More funds are also lodging Modern Slavery Act statements. "Long story short, just as the concept of ESG has ...

Emerging markets improving on ESG: Bank of America

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUN 2022  |  NEWS
... also looking at integrating ESG and not keeping it a separate department," he said. "They are moving past simple negative screens, because they are finding that excluding stocks just because they had a bad history are not the best way to manage exposures ...

Strong demand for ESG managed accounts: Praemium

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAY 2022  |  NEWS
... being able to service it." Praemium uses research from Sustainalytics in nine areas for advisers to construct negative screens to eliminate companies based on the following categories: pornography, gaming, animal testing, armaments, alcohol, tobacco ...