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Emerging HNW seek ESG, ethical investments: Praemium

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 16 DEC 2021  |  NEWS
... screens to eliminate companies based on the following categories: pornography, gaming, animal testing, armaments, alcohol, tobacco, and three categories in fossil fuels- thermal coal, oil sands, and oil and gas. These screens feed into Praemium's ...

Not all net zero targets created equal: Maple-Brown Abbott

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 25 NOV 2021  |  NEWS
... we participate in active engagement - infrastructure is really critical to decarbonisation. The world can live without tobacco companies, but we can't live without water." Engagement rather than divestment is a key tool for infrastructure companies ...

GII launch gender equality impact fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 25 NOV 2021  |  NEWS
... broad MSCI World index (Developed and Emerging Markets). In addition, GII also screens out exposure to alcohol, gaming, tobacco, weapons, fossil fuels and adult entertainment companies in the portfolio. The strategy currently holds positions in 60 companies ...

Biodiversity loss a material financial risk: ACSI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 23 NOV 2021  |  NEWS
... dependency on biodiversity through operations include fisheries, forestry, agriculture and aquaculture; food, beverages and tobacco; heat utilities; construction, while industries with high impacts on biodiversity in their operations or value chains ...

RIAA rules out nuclear weapons, e-cigarettes in responsible investments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 22 NOV 2021  |  NEWS
... responsible investment product must, at a minimum, avoid significant harm. This means investors must exclude producers of tobacco, manufacture of nicotine alternatives and tobacco-based products, controversial weapons and nuclear weapons from their portfolio ...

Paradice Investment Management hires ESG analyst

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 14 OCT 2021  |  NEWS
... and Trafficking (IAST) and the Responsible Investment Association of Australasia (RIAA) as well as becoming a member of Tobacco Fee Portfolios. "I am excited to join such a well-respected firm and look forward to contributing to the progression of Paradice's ...

Islamic fund to expand into banking

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 16 SEP 2021  |  NEWS
... business activities is not allowed: conventional banking and insurance, alcohol, pork and all non-Halal food items, gambling, tobacco, adult entertainment, conventional derivatives, weapons, and all other impermissible actions as decided by the Sharia ...

New ethical fund appoints Equity Trustees as RE

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 9 SEP 2021  |  NEWS
... we'd meet that demand by bringing in a multi-asset fund," Heuzenroeder said. The fund screens out companies invested in tobacco, alcohol, controversial weapons, nuclear, fossil fuels and gambling among other exclusions. "We go through a process of ...

Advisers integrating positive impact into investment choices

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 2 SEP 2021  |  NEWS
... decade ago, the choice was based on negative screening, the investment options have evolved. "It used to be no weapons, no tobacco, no gambling," he said. "You can see the evolution of this whole space as being from negative filters towards 'I'm ...

Cultural factors influence ESG approaches: Morgan Stanley Investment Management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 19 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
... the Middle East and countries with larger Muslim communities will tend to focus on screened investments that eliminate tobacco, alcohol, adult entertainment and gambling and pork, and Latin America is focused on issues including deforestation, Indigenous ...