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Companies have responsibility to meld profit and purpose: IBM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
... Australians were more likely to conduct business with a company working to promote quality jobs and skills, including investing in the future of the workforce. IBM's Global Purpose Study used an international sample of 7,020 adults in Australia, Brazil ...

Australian mutual fund assets rise to $66.8bn in 2019: Cerulli Associates

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
... Cerulli also expects ESG ETFs to maintain their strong growth, as they offer "simple, liquid, and cost-effective ways of investing sustainably and ethically." "Apart from having strong track records in sustainable investment fund performance, going forward ...

Energy Super taps Robeco for $650m enhanced indexing mandate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
... Equities team, which consists of more than 40 portfolio managers and quantitative researchers dedicated to quantitative investing, research and model development. As of September 2019, Robeco managed $116 billion based on quantitative models. While not ...

Investing for positive environment impact, financial return: First Sentier

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
... Rebecca Myatt, portfolio manager for First Sentier's Sustainable Listed Infrastructure Fund explained their strategy of investing in companies that are actively reducing their carbon emissions footprint and deliver affordable clean energy. The largest ...

Hendrik van Calcar steps down as director of Qantas Super

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
... 2018 and is credited with "reinvigorating conversations on the considerations of ESG factors in the corporate super's investing," according to Qantas Super. "We are now on the frontier of being able to take another step forward on ESG," van Calcar said. ...

Taskforce recommends government support to build social impact investing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
A landmark Social Impact Investing Taskforce is recommending that the commonwealth government take a "coordinated and long term" approach to guide its involvement in the social impact investing market. Kylie Charlton, managing director of Australian ...

Integrating ESG considerations in securities lending programs

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
... individual investor decides which principles matter most to them. For example, for some the focus is low carbon footprint investing, whereas others may view this through a more ethical lens and focus on the exclusion of companies and stocks which might ...

Comment: hindsight is 2020

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
... the BlackRock and BIS announcements. Superannuation funds have demonstrated that they can lead the way in sustainable investing especially as investing this way has been found to not only maintain if not boost returns but also reduce investment risks ...

Analysis: climate change, Australia and the fierce urgency of now

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2020  |  NEWS
... been a spike in visits and searches since the beginning of the bushfire crisis, O'Connor noted. Searches relate to investing in renewables and climate solutions is the number one inclusion topic and is three times as high as the next most frequently ...

Human rights, ethical sourcing driving ESG considerations in Asia: Ausbil

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2020  |  NEWS
... to be able to pay for their own externalities," Carlsson-Sweeny said. "We've often talked about what is sustainable investing about, and fundamentally, it's about earnings sustainability. Do company's earnings rely on weak regulation? If so, those earnings ...