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Social premium on the rise: Federated Hermes

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
... in the benchmark by 17 basis points on average per month, purely on social grounds," said Lewis Grant, senior global equities portfolio manager at Federated Hermes. According to Federated Hermes, research into companies' performance and their investment ...

Global fund managers unite to accelerate natural capital investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 12 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... investing in the preservation, protection and enhancement of nature. Lombard Odier launched a first-of-its-kind global equities investment strategy for natural capital last year, developed in partnership with the Circular Bioeconomy Alliance, established ...

Regnan launches global equity impact fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 10 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
... Impact Solutions Fund invests in global public market impact assets. The fund is offered as part of Regnan's Global Equities Impact strategy which is available in the UK and now in Australia. The strategy is managed by Regnan's London-based investment ...

ESG funds continue strong performance: Rainmaker

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 3 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
... percentage points over the 12 months to October 2020. The Rainmaker ESG Equities Index, that combines domestic and global equities workplace ESG options, outperformed the overall equivalent index by 2.1 percentage points, which is an increase over September's ...

Industry super cuts emissions exposures by 40%

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 26 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
... to Aware Super's investment managers in October 2020 and the carbon emissions of Aware Super's Australian and global equities exposures are already 40% below that of the baseline of 31 December 2019, ahead of the fund's goal. The benchmarks for Australian ...

BetaShares to launch ethical diversified ETFs

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 5 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
... it." BetaShares dominates the ESG ETP sector in Australia with 73% of funds under management in three ETPs - the global equities-focused ethical ETF ETHI, the Australian equities-focused ethical ETF, FAIR, and the global fixed income ETF, GBND. ETHI ...

Northern Trust scores win in Vanguard reversal

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 29 OCT 2020  |  NEWS
... Australia and New Zealand. The change is across three asset classes: international credit, sovereign bonds and global equities. The allocations sit in multi-asset funds and some standalone funds from ANZ Investments and OneAnswer. The total amount is ...

First Sentier publishes Modern Slavery Statement

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2020  |  NEWS
... Australia will have the challenge of finding information in markets where disclosure is not mandated. "Obviously, our global equities teams and our APAC focused teams are going to continue to have that challenge year on year as we raise those issues ...

Vanguard expands Ethically Conscious product range

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2020  |  NEWS
... manages $3.5 billion across its ESG range to date, with about $1.3 billion in AUM for the ethically conscious global equities product, Reedman said. "We've been working with understanding the needs and preferences and how they've changed for ...

Fund manager creates, hires for ESG role

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2020  |  NEWS
... to support the fund manager's efforts to more deeply integrate ESG-related matters across its domestic and global equities funds, including the Alphinity Sustainable Share Fund. Cairns comes to Alphinity from Transurban, where she was senior sustainability ...