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Australian Ethical sees record net inflows for June quarter

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUL 2017  |  NEWS
... at the end of March. "People are finally realising that they don't have to compromise, but rather they can combine their ethics with good financial returns over time," said Phil Vernon, Australian Ethical managing director. Australian Ethical also reported ...

Pengana selects WHEB Asset Management to manage Hunter Hall Global Deep Green Trust

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 JUN 2017  |  NEWS
... has been employed by the FP WHEB Sustainability Fund since May 2012. "At a high level, increasing trend to align personal ethics to your investment style," said Adam Myers, executive director, Penganga Capital Group. "For many investors, a simple negative ...

Will Australia adopt the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures recommendations?

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 JUN 2017  |  NEWS
... climate risk - Credit Suisse maps entities on a spectrum from ethical, to very concerned to concerned to unconcerned to ethics-free, and, referencing the Shakespearean play Twelfth Night, compares stakeholders to the protagonists Viola and Sebastian ...

GRI, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade launch new Indo-Pacific program

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 JUN 2017  |  NEWS
... government allocated AU$400,000 to GRL Focal Point Australia, which was the product of a 2008 agreement between the GRI and The Ethics Centre (formerly the St James Ethics Centre). The Focal Point promotes world's best practice reporting of environmental ...

Video: Aligning Your Investments with the Sustainable Development Goals

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAR 2017  |  NEWS
... Director, MSCI, Joanna Nash, Vice President, Blackrock, Richard Brandweiner, CIO, First State Super, and Stuart Palmer, Head of Ethics, Australian Ethical. The panel was moderated by Rachel Alembakis, Editor, The Sustainability Report This expert panel ...

AMP Capital to divest from tobacco, controversial weapons

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAR 2017  |  NEWS
... consultation with major institutional clients and engagement with retail customers." AMP Capital worked with experts in business ethics to develop the framework, including Dr Simon Longstaff from The Ethics Centre. "It's important to note we are only ...

Australian Ethical Investments join Principles for Positive Impact Finance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 FEB 2017  |  NEWS
... Positive Impact Finance, a new set of criteria to assess the impact of sustainable investments. Dr Stuart Palmer, head of ethics, Australian Ethical Investments Australian Ethical and Westpac are both members of the working group that developed the four ...

Ethical Investment Week to bust the ethical investment return myth

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 OCT 2016  |  NEWS
... convinced right now," she said. "I'm seeing a lot when I go to financial planning lunches and it comes up - the questions of ethics come up a lot from standard advisers, which is great." Retail and individual investors are most curious about fossil fuel ...

Australian Ethical Investment engages on sustainability of meat

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 SEP 2016  |  NEWS
... with 16 multinational food companies over concerns of material risks posed by industrial animal production. Ella McKinley, ethics analyst, Australian Ethical Investment The Farm Animal Investment Risk and Return (FAIRR) initiative has sent a letter to ...

Regnan reports results of 2015/2016 engagements

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 AUG 2016  |  NEWS
... independence - as well as public disclosure,' Regnan said in the report. 'Evidence of change was also present with respect to ethics and stakeholder management.' Regnan conducted research on the 'importance of strategic human capital for companies undertaking ...