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T. Rowe Price joins Responsible Investment Association Australasia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 21 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
Global investment firm T. Rowe Price has joined the Responsible Investment Association Australasia (RIAA). "We are delighted to begin our partnership with RIAA to work on important responsible investment issues that are top of mind for our clients," ...

Stakeholders mull impact of Rio Tinto report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
... Indigenous peoples. In the wake of Juukan Gorge and the Black Lives Matter protests around the world, the Responsible Investment Association Australasia (RIAA) has established a new First Nations peoples' Working Group (FNPWG), under the auspices of ...

DWS to use advisory board to accelerate ESG activity

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
... equity/bonds, they can look and see what for example the climate transition risks are," Kuijpers said. Our responsible investment committee will review high climate risk companies in our portfolios, and decide whether we should divest such company investments. ...

Super fund shuffles team, investment chief steps down

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 17 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
... Barlow-Bolt. McLeod is a financial adviser specialising in ethical investments and is on the board of the Responsible Investment Association of Australasia (RIAA). Financial Standard profiled McLeod this year in its annual FS Managed Accounts journal ...

First Sentier Investor hires IR director for direct infrastructure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
... firm that values inclusion and diversity. "I'm attracted to First Sentier Investors' commitment to responsible investment, in addition to the inclusive culture and growth of the direct infrastructure team," she said. "Clients have responded well ...

Industry considers Australian sustainable finance taxonomy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 10 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
... sustainable finance industry to move forward with integrity," said Alexis Cheang, partner, head of ANZ, responsible investment, Mercer, and co-chair of the ASFI Sustainable Financial System technical working group, which tabled the taxonomy recommendation. ...

Super fund backs microgrid battery storage development

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 10 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
... met expected return targets for the fund's private equity portfolio, as well as satisfied Aware Super's responsible investment policies, said Amit Chand, associate portfolio manager investments - growth assets, Aware Super. Aware Super's private equity ...

Vellum Funds Management builds property with NDIS units

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 10 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
... board also comprising of five other Australian business leaders with experience across property, super, responsible investment, banking, finance, aged care and not-for-profits. A new investor in the company, AustralianSuper also have two board seats ...

Assessing climate research as part of fund manager performance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 3 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
... product, we want to know how that data is being utilised," said Joey Alcock, principal consultant, chair of responsible investment group, Frontier Advisors. "Different fund managers are going to have different approaches. For example, the degree to which ...

ESG funds continue strong performance: Rainmaker

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 3 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
... returned 5.0%, HESTA's Sustainable Growth returned 3.2%, Lutheran Super's Balanced Growth Socially Responsible Investment option returned 3.0% and Australian Catholic Super's Employer's Socially Responsible option returned 2.8%. The benchmark ...