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Redpoint poaches PMs from ART

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 APR 2022  |  NEWS
Redpoint Investment Management has poached from Australian Retirement Trust (ART) to augment its impact investing capability. Hunter Page and Chris Parks join Redpoint as portfolio managers. At ART, Page was responsible for managing the socially responsible ...

Fintech Bloom Impact to cultivate retail climate investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAR 2022  |  NEWS
... However, Socquet-Clerc could not find an investment product to meet her desire to invest in climate-positive impact investing while not being a sophisticated investor, which led her and co-founder Bertrand Caron to the path of creating Bloom in 2019. ...

US SEC proposes rules for climate disclosure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAR 2022  |  NEWS
... a comprehensive ESG disclosure framework in 2009. "The US SIF Foundation's 2020 Report on US Sustainable and Impact Investing Trends identified climate change as the most important specific ESG issue considered by money managers, comprising $4.2 trillion ...

The challenge of evaluating impact investing's fundamentals

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 FEB 2022  |  NEWS
Defining positive impact is a challenge for investors, and advisers need to evaluate fund managers' impact claims against their intentionality, the measurability of social or environmental impact, and the manager's contribution towards that impact ...

Responsible investment funds surge past $100 billion: Plan For Life

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 17 FEB 2022  |  NEWS
... conjunction with ESG integration or positive screening and related FUM increased 47% over the year," Solomon said. "Impact investing is the fastest growing approach, up 86.7% but currently only adopted by 2% of products." ISS owns Rainmaker Group, publisher ...

ESG adds performance boost to equity funds: Rainmaker Information

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 27 JAN 2022  |  NEWS
... screening; norms-based screening; active ownership; positive screening; sustainability-themed investments; and impact investing. The ERIG Index also uses criteria from the UN Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI). The ERIG Index currently rates ...

Resolution Capital nab MSCI ESG exec for analyst role

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 18 JAN 2022  |  NEWS
... experience specialising in global real estate and materials sector companies. At MSCI, he has focused on sustainable impact investing, mapping climate risk within global property and power assets, testing carbon regulation scenarios on ASX200 companies' ...

Strong APAC demand for sustainable, impact assets: UBS

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 13 JAN 2022  |  NEWS
... classes and product lines, according to UBS. As of the end of September 2021, UBS's sustainability focus and Impact investing assets grew by 63% to US$207 billion, said Desmond Kuek, head of sustainable finance, Asia Pacific and global head of sustainable ...

GII launch gender equality impact fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 25 NOV 2021  |  NEWS
... our business mission and vision," said GII founder and CEO Giles Gunesekera. "We're all about mainstreaming impact investing and doing it at scale. We wanted to develop a fund that had the ability to scale, but was also very, very focused on ensuring ...

CEFC, Future Super back green bond fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 30 SEP 2021  |  NEWS
... these trends, providing an important new investment option for the growing number of investors who recognise that impact investing can be positive for returns." Future Super founder and CEO Simon Sheikh said the super fund was pleased to work with the ...