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American Century outlines 2022 sustainability priorities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 3 FEB 2022  |  NEWS
Climate change, digitalisation, healthcare, empowerment and diversity issues, and the circular economy are key engagement issues in 2022 for fund manager American Century Investments. In developing the long-term ESG themes that will impact on economies ...

Australian Ethical launches high conviction ETF

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 1 FEB 2022  |  NEWS
... Conviction Unit Trust, launched in October 2021. AEAE seeks exposure to "forward-looking industries" such as renewables, healthcare, communications, and information technology and targets a highly liquid portfolio of mid- and large-cap securities complemented ...

American Century launches small cap fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JAN 2022  |  NEWS
... intermediary investors, noted to interim head of Asia Pacific, Elizabeth Trinh. "Since 2009, we have offered Global Growth and Healthcare Impact funds to intermediary investors through a distribution relationship with Zurich Investments," she said. American ...

Demand for sustainability specialists drives salaries upward: Talent Nation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 17 JAN 2022  |  NEWS
... $259,560. Financial services and banking were the second highest sector, at $217,520, while the government, education, healthcare and NFP sector paying the least, at $167,120. Historically, environmental and sustainability positions in mining and minerals ...

Decarbonisation a key megatrend in private markets: BlackRock

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 6 JAN 2022  |  NEWS
... imperative." BlackRock also said that exposure to trends including "use of technology across businesses, changes in healthcare and healthcare delivery, new consumption and living patterns is an important element of future private market returns, particularly ...

Strong return for ESG funds, but oil ETF shines

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 9 DEC 2021  |  NEWS
... investing for the themes, not investing in the headwinds, and investing in things with tailwinds - water, food, waste, healthcare, technology." CreationWealth director and senior financial planner Andrew Zbik called it "an interesting conundrum." "I've ...

ESG investing "fastest growing" priority for advisers

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 2 DEC 2021  |  NEWS
... same time, there is an expectation that there will be more regulation of ESG products. Zurich in 2020 launched the Healthcare Impact Fund, which is managed by global fund manager American Century Investments. The Zurich Investments Healthcare Impact ...

NAB, Ramsay Health Care in ESG derivative transaction

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 21 OCT 2021  |  NEWS
... proposition." The Ramsay Health Care ESG derivative's KPIs are linked to the same sustainability targets as the healthcare provider's $1.5 billion syndicated sustainability linked loan (SLL), which was announced in July. The new facility comprises ...

Venture capital takes on impact investing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 2 SEP 2021  |  NEWS
... apply a new responsible investment filter to all future portfolio investments Under the new policy, the technology and healthcare specialist VC firm will apply both positive and negative investment screening, reviewing companies' performance metrics ...

Assessing animal testing as a governance issue: Vontobel

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 19 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
... hurdle for different management to go ahead into a market which required animal testing?" The more likely that a non-healthcare company has a brand or brands that are consumer facing, the more likely that they are to have sensitivity around animal testing ...