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Australian Ethical hires equities analyst

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2016  |  NEWS
... we continue to identify the best investments within our ethically-screened universe." The ethical investment and superannuation provider recently reported a 35% growth in funds under management and a 55% growth in profit in its most recent half-yearly ...

Urgent need for social impact metrics development

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2016  |  NEWS
... the need to develop comparable, reportable metrics, and are collecting data for interpretation as they go along. Superannuation fund HESTA last year established an AU$30 million Social Impact Investment Trust and allocated AU$6.7 million of that amount ...

Q&A: Madeleine Senior, Bert Rebelo, Northern Trust

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAR 2016  |  NEWS
... is the custodian for asset owners including the Future Fund, CSC, QIC, IAG, ACT Treasury and Energy Industries Superannuation Scheme (EISS). In 2015, Northern Trust established an asset management sales and client servicing team in Australia. Senior ...

Impact Investing Australia launches inaugural Australian survey

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAR 2016  |  NEWS
... discussion following the report's presentation, Richard Brandweiner, CIO of the AU$53 billion First State Super industry superannuation fund, noted that while funds like his were increasingly considering their role as universal owners of the Australian ...

RIAA certifies three super funds as responsible investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAR 2016  |  NEWS
The Responsible Investment Association of Australasia (RIAA) has, for the first time, certified three superannuation funds under its relaunched Responsible Investment Certification Program. Simon O'Connor, RIAA CEO Australian Ethical Super, Christian ...

UCA Funds Management supports 30% women on boards target

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 FEB 2016  |  NEWS
UCA Funds Management will support the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI)'s goal of seeing women comprise 30% of ASX200 board positions by 2018. Michael Walsh, UCA Funds Management The ethical fund manager will monitor the proportion ...

Pauline Vamos to step down as ASFA CEO

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 FEB 2016  |  NEWS
Pauline Vamos is stepping down as CEO of the Association of Superannuation Funds (ASFA), after eight and a half years in the role. The ASFA board will commence its recruitment process shortly and have asked Vamos to stay on to at least the end of June ...

ACSI, TIAA-CREF engage on "show of hands" AGM voting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 FEB 2016  |  NEWS
... the $854 billion US financial services company TIAA-CREF with engagement support from the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI) contacted 38 of Australia's largest companies that used "show of hands" during the 2014 AGM voting season. ...

Fund members concerned about climate change risk: CFGAM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2016  |  NEWS
... Jake Reynolds from the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership conducted a survey of 1,000 Australian superannuation fund members as part of the Cambridge University Masters of Sustainability Leadership program. The survey showed that 73% of ...

Can sustainability considerations drive corporate innovation?

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JAN 2016  |  NEWS
... that, there is a lot of interesting collaborative work going on." Black pointed to recent announcements such as superannuation fund HESTA making allocations to social investments such as affordable housing as an example of funds coming through on commitments ...