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Super fund shuffles team, investment chief steps down

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 17 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
... in ethical investments and is on the board of the Responsible Investment Association of Australasia (RIAA). Financial Standard profiled McLeod this year in its annual FS Managed Accounts journal publication. Barlow-Bolt joins from Australian Unity where ...

Industry considers Australian sustainable finance taxonomy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 10 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
... on establishing definitions and agreeing the targets and scanning the investible universe. If you had, for instance, a standard definition on what an impact investment fund was, then when your clients say I want to do impact investing, you would connect ...

Vellum Funds Management builds property with NDIS units

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 10 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
... Australia, mainland China and Hong Kong. BTR is a growing sector in Australia. As reported in sister publication Financial Standard, build-to-rent developer Assemble announced a newly formed board with former HESTA chair Angela Emslie appointed as independent ...

ESG funds continue strong performance: Rainmaker

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 3 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
... assessment model as way to integrated risk measures into a unified score by analysing investment returns, volatility and other standard risk measures, and to use those results to tell a coherent story about an investment product. Using RMetrics, the ...

The future is now: the future of sustainable investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 26 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
As this most unusual year draws to a close, this roundtable presented a unique opportunity to gather a panel of experts from a diverse range of backgrounds - asset owners, asset managers, consultants and industry bodies - to discuss how sustainable ...

International sustainability accounting standards bodies to merge

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 26 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
... benefiting other key stakeholders." CPA Australia welcomed the announcement. "The merger brings together two of the leading standard setters on comprehensive corporate reporting," said Jane Rennie, general manager external affairs, CPA Australia. "It ...

Investing for the day after tomorrow: Janus Henderson

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 19 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
Investing in line with the day after tomorrow means investing in companies that are meeting climate change, human rights, and broad demographic challenges and opportunities, according to Janus Henderson. The Janus Henderson Global Sustainable Equity ...

Investors urge companies to broaden view of modern slavery risks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
... some ways they might consider doing it." The other members of the coalition include IFM Investors, Schroders, Aberdeen Standard Investments, ACSI, Perennial Value Management, Maple-Brown Abbott, Platypus Asset Management, American Century Investments ...

Climate change, SDG impacts of US election

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
As President-Elect Joe Biden prepares the next administration, there are implications for action in Australia as well as for achieving greater alignment with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). As of publication, Biden and Vice-President Elect ...

Real asset investments as vehicle for return, positive impact

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
Investing in real assets that have positive social and/or environmental impacts means investors gain more than a source of return that is non-correlated to other asset classes. During a recent webinar sponsored by Channel Capital, Matthew Tominc, CIO ...