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Superannuation funds that invest responsibly outperform: RIAA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2019  |  NEWS
... most harmful industries are avoided in their investment. We see again that exclusions across tobacco and controversial weapons are common and cover 60% of the funds with baseline exclusions." The growing application of responsible investment strategies ...

ESG engagement key to small cap value: Perennial Value Management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 NOV 2019  |  NEWS
... minimum market cap of $50 million. Perennial then applies a negative screen, eliminating fossil fuels, alcohol, tobacco, weapons, forestry activities, gambling activities, and unhealthy fast food. The team then applies its internal ESG score to the resulting ...

Willis Towers Watson launches Australian Global Equity Focus Fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 NOV 2019  |  NEWS
... underlying manager research includes review of approach to sustainable investing; exclusion of tobacco and controversial weapons; and ongoing engagement with portfolio companies via Hermes stewardship overlay. "We like to have a very concentrated portfolio ...

BlackRock launches unlisted iShares ESG Global Bond Index Fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 AUG 2019  |  NEWS
... Index Fund," according to BlackRock. The fund excludes issuers in eight core filters: tobacco, alcohol, gambling, military weapons, civilian firearms, nuclear power, adult entertainment and genetically modified organisms (GMOs). The fund also has an ...

Responsible investment a fundamental practice in NZ: RIAA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2019  |  NEWS
... 10 April 14." NZ Super Fund has divested approximately NZ$19 million of international equity investments in a number of weapons companies. "Fund managers have been more proactive, as demonstrated by the response to the Christchurch tragedy," O'Connor ...

RI market nears $1 trillion, increased focus on lifting leading practice: RIAA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2019  |  NEWS
... are seeking in their investment products. The most prevalent negative screens conducted by investment managers are for weapons and tobacco, followed by fossil fuels and human rights. But RIAA found that consumer's searches for negative screens products ...

Legg Mason launches QS Investors Global Responsible Investment Fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2019  |  NEWS
... remove companies that do not meet certain ethical criteria." Exclusions include tobacco, gambling, alcohol, defence and weapons, fur, genetically modified crops, nuclear energy, oil sands and thermal coal. "QS Investors has an excellent long-term track ...

Australian funds join international controversial weapons call

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 FEB 2019  |  NEWS
... First State have signed on to a global institutional investor statement calling on index providers to remove controversial weapons from mainstream indices. The open letter was sent to FTSE Russell, Morningstar, MSCI, S&P Dow Jones Indices and STOXX. ...

Zuper Super launches Wealthness hub to educate, engage member base

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2019  |  NEWS
... two "bases", which constitute at least 80% of member's investments - Zuper Impact, which screens out tobacco and nuclear weapons, and Zuper Impact Plus, which also screens out gambling, pornography, alcohol and fossil fuels. On top of that "base", members ...

Willis Towers Watson, MSCI launch Adaptive Capped ESG Universal Index

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2018  |  NEWS
... market capitalisation in markets, the strategy excludes "a small number of companies" based on manufacture of controversial weapons, companies where more than 10% of revenue is garnered from thermal coal, and companies that are red-flagged for violation ...