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Serving up meat's sustainability risks, opportunities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
... their positioning and stance," said Peter van der Werf, a Robeco engagement specialist, covering the consumer staples, healthcare and chemicals. "Where they were very defensive, very closed off early on in our engagement, they have to a certain degree ...

Healthcare sector offers investment opportunity: American Century

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
Even as healthcare companies showed strong return through 2020, the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic was not a rising tide for all healthcare sector corporate boats, notes American Century Investments. American Century Investments' American Century ...

Circular economy a key investment theme: American Century

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... sustainability pillars which roll-up to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) - environmental protection, healthcare, education, sustainable living and technological progress. Circular economy is embedded in most of those categories. ...

Seeking financial, positive impact in SME investments: Beckon Capital

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... businesses." Beckon Capital started with a "proof of concept fund" with diverse small and medium enterprises - two healthcare businesses, a B2C technology business, a building site and an environmental services business, Moffitt said. "In the next group ...

Cromwell Property Group sets net zero carbon target

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 10 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
... we've always had this core of strong government-based tenants, which gave us security. We've also had higher needs from healthcare related tenants - they're working at more than 100% during COVID because they were in demand, so the scales swung both ...

Aviva Investors launches climate transition equity fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
... come from that sector. Other sectors include utilities, and maybe sectors that are well prepared for transition like healthcare." On the flip side, the portfolio does not hold much in the financial sector. We are very underweight financials," he said. ...

Capital raisings, remuneration impact proxy vote: Dimensional

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 1 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
... past 12 months, remuneration reports that Dimensional voted against included AMP, AP Eagers, AGL, Sigma Health, Sonic Healthcare. Dimensional voted against the election of one or more directors at AGMs for AP Eagers, Brickworks, Crown, and Freedom Foods. ...

Climate change, SDG impacts of US election

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
... reframing of the narrative and the ability to build new resiliency in natural systems, energy systems, political and healthcare systems, among others, Petersen said. Petersen cited specific commitments that Biden has made to roll back decisions made ...

Considering potential ESG implications of the US election

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 5 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
... Lacaille said. Lacaille said that high quality equities and staples are expected to do better, while sectors such as healthcare, which have contributed heavily to the outperformance of ESG -themed funds in 2020, may still do well "particularly if Congress ...

ESG managed funds outperform

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 OCT 2020  |  NEWS
... ethical charter. It had $85 million in AUM to the end of August, and is overweight in companies associated with the healthcare and IT sectors, which have performed strongly in 2020, said Andy Gracey, portfolio manager, Australian Ethical investment. ...