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Diversity, human rights, climate change lead agenda: ASI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
... this white paper," Welsh-Rose said. "It's a combined effort from our chief economist, our head of strategic asset allocation and our climate change experts from the ESG teams and the research institute, using a combination of off the shelf scenarios ...

Industry fund sets bar higher with Net Zero timing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
An industry superannuation fund has set the most ambitious climate change related target yet, aiming to attain a carbon neutral investment portfolio in nine years. The $12.8 billion NGS Super has set a target of carbon neutrality by 2030. The target ...

Opinion: 2021 Reboot: three ways to innovate for impact

WARWICK PEEL, GORDON NOBLE  |  MONDAY, 15 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
... dollar invested in Australian-listed equity, $1.20 is invested in international-listed equity. This shift in asset allocation has been slow and steady and reflects that as Australia's superannuation system matures, there is a lack of opportunities ...

ESG funds show strong risk-adjusted returns: Rainmaker

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 14 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... to assist them at various points on the investment decision-making process, whether that be from a strategic asset allocation position, considering climate change scenario testing at a strategic asset allocation level and what that means... all the way ...

CSC partners with Osmosis IM on sustainable strategy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 22 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
... risk-adjusted returns, said Ben Dear, Osmosis CEO. "For an investor who targets certain style exposures in their asset allocation, and is seeking to address environmental ownership of carbon, water and waste, our approach allows them to do so in a risk-controlled ...

Super fund backs microgrid battery storage development

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 10 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
... investments typically tend to be much bigger and might be suitable for other sectors like infrastructure... so from an asset allocation, we're adding in a sector that we didn't have much exposure, and this energy sector investment happened to be green." ...

Assessing climate research as part of fund manager performance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 3 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
... by managers without reference to the specified reports above, and how reports on systemic risks can play into asset allocation and investment decision making. "If we're undertaking a rating of a particular investment product, we want to know how that ...

Social, economic consequences of climate change "devastating": Robeco

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 26 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
... according to Robeco. Robeco recently released its Expected Five-Year Returns report, part of which focuses on asset allocation and climate goals section. Constructing portfolios that perform well when climate risks materialize is a challenging task ...

BetaShares to launch ethical diversified ETFs

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 5 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
... partially due to the fact that the diversified ethical ETFs will use the existing ethical ETF range as part of the asset allocation, Vynokur said. Currently, DGGF has $3.7 million in AUM, DBBF also has $3.7 million in AUM and DZZF has $3.5 million in ...

Australia vulnerable as countries decarbonise

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2020  |  NEWS
... Rachel Farrell, CEO and country head, J.P. Morgan Asset Management Australia. "Clients start with the strategic asset allocation to build the long term framework," Farrell said. "However, long term assumptions are not widely available - it's easy ...