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NZ Super adopts new climate change investment risk strategy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 OCT 2016  |  NEWS
... engagement and searching for new investment opportunities, the fund said. "What we're doing is going across the whole of the equity portfolio and utilising the metrics that we can and then conducting the analysis that we can to make that portfolio much ...

RIAA designs Responsible Returns consumer website

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 OCT 2016  |  NEWS
... launched last year, and certified products cover equities funds, fixed interest funds, ETFs, banking products, private equity, property, impact investments as well as 20 certified financial advisers. The website is for informational purposes only, O'Connor ...

Corporate governance, quality linked as investment factors: Northern Trust

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 OCT 2016  |  NEWS
... return on equities, according to Northern Trust Asset Management. Michael Hunstad, head of quantitative research global equity management, Northern Trust Northern Trust uses their proprietary proprietary Northern Trust Quality Score (NTQS) as one of ...

BNP Paribas to develop products around Sustainable Development Goals

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 OCT 2016  |  NEWS
... Sustainable Development Goals World Index. BNP Paribas Corporate and Institutional Banking has been licensed for the new equity index, which consists of 50 global companies with a "clear, positive net impact on sustainable development linked to the 17 ...

UCA Funds Management names Katherine Allchin to board

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 OCT 2016  |  NEWS
... Barclays Global Investors for 11 years. In 2010, she founded Vinva Investment Management, a boutique Australian and Asian equity funds management business that has AU$20 billion funds under management. Allchin retains executive responsibilities in Vinva ...

Principles for Responsible Investment name Matt McAdam Australian head

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 SEP 2016  |  NEWS
... Standard & Poor's in London, where he managed communications and media relations across S&P's credit ratings, indices, equity and fund research businesses over six years, particularly in Middle Eastern emerging markets and in South Africa. He was previously ...

Impax Asset Management analyses environmental impact of portfolio

PIA LEFEVRE  |  FRIDAY, 23 SEP 2016  |  NEWS
... clients. Impax Investment Management manages £4.3 billion on behalf of institutional clients through listed and private equity strategies. "In the context of climate change there has been quite a growth in carbon footprinting (...) and we have always ...

Emerald Wrap, Impact 20/80 form impact investing partnership

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2016  |  NEWS
... to the Emerald Wrap's platform. "One of the things for us with the partnership with Emerald Wrap is the enormous brand equity in the platform and the ability to bring that forward," Dent said. "We're making a lot of noise about impact investing, but ...

BetaShares launches global cybersecurity exchange traded fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2016  |  NEWS
... from several sectors - institutions are definitely thinking where growth is coming from, and if you think about Australian equity portfolios typically, they're heavily weighted towards the big banks and resources companies," Vynokur said. "There's limited ...

Pollinate Energy attracts investment from Pangaea Impact Investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 SEP 2016  |  NEWS
... terms of the deal remain confidential, Pollinate Energy confirmed that the investment was structured as credit rather than equity. Pollinate Energy has developed a business distribution model that follows the pathways developed by the spread of mobile ...