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Wholesale managed funds continue strong performance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
... equities returns for the month of January were "a mixed bag," with the S&P ASX 200 returning 0.3% of the month. Emerging markets had the strongest index performance, with a 3.7% return in Australian dollar terms. The main MSCI global ESG index rose 0.8% ...

Social, governance risks to unequal global vaccine distribution

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 25 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
... citizens, they remain at risk of a sluggish recovery with a drag on GDP if infection continues to spread unabated in emerging markets. The statement said the global economy "stands to lose as much as US$9.2 trillion if governments fail to ensure that ...

BetaShares to launch climate change innovation ETF

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 18 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
... production or businesses that produce technology related to clean energy production, from both developed and emerging markets. The index upon which CLNE is based covers sectors including biofuel and biomass energy production, technology and equipment ...

Clean Energy-based ETF to list on ASX

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 16 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
... production or businesses that produce technology related to clean energy production, from both developed and emerging markets. The Index attempts to represent the full clean energy ecosystem by capturing companies involved in renewable energy production ...

The conundrum of ESG in emerging markets

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... This piece is sponsored by T. Rowe Price Integrating environmental, social and governance considerations into emerging markets portfolios can assist investors in finding companies that outperform their peers. However, they also present challenges for ...

Water, water risk everywhere: DWS

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 7 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... and which asset class you're looking at." Within fixed income and credit, DWS also evaluates developed and emerging markets, and corporates and sovereigns." In addition to finding the sources of data, measuring the impacts is another challenge. "What's ...

Long short strategies used in environmental equities fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
... EARTH portfolio has between 25-40 strategies contained within it, and focuses on North America, Europe, Asia, and emerging markets, while pursuing an all-cap strategy, encompassing companies that are as small as $200 million in market cap up to the largest ...

First Sentier publishes Modern Slavery Statement

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2020  |  NEWS
... discretionary - in particular retailers, apparel and technology; health care supplies, energy and construction; and the emerging markets debt team include "countries that are marked by conflict, have repressive regimes in place and rely heavily on migrant ...

ESG in fixed income more than green bonds: Daintree

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2020  |  NEWS
... our funds." However, Dunn notes that the issue of fossil fuel investment isn't black and white, particularly in emerging markets, noting that while the IAEA report says that whilst money is pouring in to renewable energy projects and transition projects ...

FTSE Russell enhances Green Revenues data model

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 15 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... services in 10 sectors, 64 sub-sectors and 133 micro-sectors and 16,000 listed companies across 48 developed and emerging markets. This represents 98.5% of the total global market value of listed companies, FTSE Russell said. FTSE Russell also applies ...