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ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 19 DEC 2024  |  NEWS
... index provider says. Read here. Investors exit climate group amid politicisation Climate Action 100+ lost two more asset managers in May. The high-profile withdrawals were pinned to ESG politicisation. Read here. Australian Ethical scores gold, others ...

Big money urged to leverage influence

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 16 DEC 2024  |  NEWS
... with cumulative AUM now $9.9 trillion and 98.9% have set Paris-aligned targets. It offers guidance on assessing asset managers' climate policy engagement, with the aim to align climate policy engagement with net-zero commitments. "For asset owners to ...

Wellington client exec departs

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 12 DEC 2024  |  NEWS
One of the world's largest privately held asset managers has farewelled a senior executive who has been with the firm for two decades. Charles Davies has retired from the $1.2 trillion investment manager where he was a relationship manager in the ...

Asset managers move climate targets in-house

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 12 DEC 2024  |  NEWS
Goldman Sachs (GS) and Franklin Templeton shed light on their departures from UN-convened Net Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA) and embattled climate group Climate Action 100+ (CA100+) respectively. GS said it would move its climate commitments to oversight ...

ETFs recover and dominate

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 25 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
... latest Wholesale Managed Funds Net Flow Report. The data covers net flows of 1100 products across 170 different asset managers in all asset classes. Over the past 12 months, open unlisted unit trusts and ETFs saw positive net flows of $7.1 billion in ...

IGCC names climate champions

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 8 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
... on the board of the Responsible Investment Association Australasia (RIAA) and the advisory group to the Net Zero Asset Managers (NZAM) initiative. Meanwhile for best in corporate engagement, Australian Ethical Investment's acting ethical stewardship ...

Australia's chance to step up

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 7 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
... which was already emerging in America," said Sonya Sawtell-Rickson, HESTA CIO. "A lot of the really large, global asset managers are based in the US, and we're already seeing them starting to backtrack their public positions. They're not as ambitious... ...

Green moves at MSCI, Future Fund, Minderoo, U Ethical

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 31 OCT 2024  |  NEWS
... in delivering high quality data and ratings, advanced analytics and client-led solutions to the world's largest asset managers, asset owners and banks. I am looking forward to leading the next generation of innovation to deliver enhanced solutions and ...

81 major investors lock in climate targets

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 31 OCT 2024  |  NEWS
... representing 98.9% of the total AUM of members. It's estimated that the total AUM at the world's 500 largest asset managers hit US$128 trillion at the end of 2023. NZAOA says its members were the first in the financial industry to set Paris-aligned ...

Australian Retirement Trust hires impact PMs

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 24 OCT 2024  |  NEWS
... members." Wilkin has held leadership roles in the corporate and charity sectors for over 20 years, switching to asset managers where environmental or social outcomes were valued as highly as financial returns. The recruit joins from Save the Children ...