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New Zealand responsible investment tops NZ$78bn: RIAA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUL 2016  |  NEWS
... responsible investment. This figure also shows "some strong flows" of funds into funds providing ethical or socially responsible retail products, including KiwiSaver products. Sustainability themed investments also continued to grow in 2015, increasing ...

Treasury Corporation of Victoria issues green bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUL 2016  |  NEWS
... with this Green Bonds initiative, with increasing appetite across Australia and the rest of the world for socially responsible investment opportunities," said state Treasurer Tim Pallas. "We are delivering on our promise and making Victoria a leader ...

Impact Investing Australia launches inaugural Australian survey

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAR 2016  |  NEWS
... Impact Investing Australia. "[In 2012 we] we extrapolated top down data from the available information on socially responsible investment and other sources and the trajectory globally on impact investment and from in the UK and the best we could say ...

Q&A: Richard Brandweiner, CIO First State Super

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2015  |  NEWS
... and how is that reflected in the relationship with eternal managers? A: We have quite a well- documented socially responsible investing policy. We communicate this to all of our managers, and we review them as to how they integrate ESG criteria into ...

Super boards can add value with ESG focus: BNP Paribas

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2015  |  NEWS
... only a matter of disaggregating the problem down to the member choice with a high growth option, and an [socially responsible investment] SRI option, that you can choose. Maybe it does become a thing where trustees can consider whether for their particular ...

NZ Super Fund selects Northern Trust for passive mandate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2015  |  NEWS
... helping them obtain efficient market exposure to their designated index, whilst supporting their goals for socially responsible investing," said Wayne Bowers, chief investment officer for Northern Trust Asset Management for Europe, Middle East, Africa ...

Teachers Mutual Bank win AB +F ESG award

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2015  |  NEWS
Teachers Mutual Bank was recognised as Best Bank in Socially Responsible Performance (ESG) at the Asia-Pacific Banking and Finance (AB+F) Awards. This is the second time the bank has won the award, having previously been recognised in 2013. Teachers ...

Northern Trust opens Australia/NZ asset management office

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2015  |  NEWS
... clients come up, they will have more influence over the assets in the foundations, and they will be demanding socially responsible products. For us, that ties neatly into our mission to be the world's most trusted asset manager." See Also: Northern Trust ...

Northern Trust to open asset management in Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 JAN 2015  |  NEWS
... this market," Singh said. "We are going to focus on the classic passive and ESG customised solutions for [socially responsible investment] mandates, and we will also focus on engineered equity as well. The timing is right, the asset servicing business ...

Instreet Investment buys The Emerald Club

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 JAN 2015  |  NEWS
... under management, an increase from 1.6% TAUM in 2013. RIAA defines core responsible investment as "ethical, socially responsible, impact investments, community finance and sustainability themed investments." The report also found that the total funds ...