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Fundamental portfolio managers analyse ESG performance of funds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 APR 2020  |  NEWS
Companies with stronger performance on material environmental, social and governance (ESG) considerations appear to be performing more strongly in the abrupt downturn of financial markets, according to fund managers with fundamental qualitative ESG-themed ...

The role of finance has never been more important: RIAA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 APR 2020  |  NEWS
The role of finance has never been more important in shaping the global economic response to global issues captured by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), climate change, and the coronavirus crisis. The Responsible Investment Association Australasia ...

Thinking about the future of work in the time of coronavirus

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2020  |  NEWS
Amid the reaction to and management of the coronavirus pandemic from a healthcare, community and economic perspective, there is a massive workplace deployment and shift from the institutions of offices to home-based interactions. Lisa Annese, CEO, Diversity ...

Emerging markets present opportunities for impact investing: 57 Stars

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2020  |  NEWS
An impact investment portfolio that seeks out investments in healthcare, tech-enabled consumer, financial services addressing financial exclusion and opportunities in emerging markets is in an unusual position in the first stages of the global response ...

Praemium enhances ESG tools with SMA, research

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2020  |  NEWS
Platform provider Praemium has "significantly enhanced" its approach to environmental, social and governance (ESG) by adding the Australian Ethical Australian Shares Portfolio to the Praemium SMA and providing ESG research from Sustainalytics. Damian ...

KPMG Australia acquires Action Sustainability Asia Pacific

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2020  |  NEWS
... the social procurement opportunity. On the built environment side, they have a big, deep sustainability perspective, and tech capability, one I think is a great complement to what we're doing from a governance and management approach." KPMG has been ...

Cromwell Property Group reports on sustainability progress for 2019

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2020  |  NEWS
Real estate investor and manager Cromwell Property Group reports that their sustainability strategy is focused on "improving performance through a structured, responsible and balanced pathway to sustained success," in their 2019 sustainability report. ...

Future IM/Pact builds database of female students interested in finance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2020  |  NEWS
... bigger national reach and helping students get a much more in-depth understanding of both the industry dynamics and the core tech skills of identifying value in markets and identifying investment strategies," Beattie said. "Our virtual internship program ...

PGIM charts rise of corporate "profit with purpose" mindset

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2020  |  NEWS
... use profits to invest in intangible assets, compared to just 35% for German firms. This leads to a model of "labour-light, tech-forward" business models, and that impacts on the nature of the workforce, Hyat said. "The nature of the workforce has changed," ...

Calix outlines case for carbon capture and storage in cement and lime

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2020  |  NEWS
... large cement plant," Hodgson said. "The technology has some scale-up to do, we need to build a bigger one, and prove the tech still works at scale-up. But operationally, it works." As well as working with the challenges of scaling up the solution, cost ...