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Lonsec: responsible investment equity funds outperform

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... mainstream, broader benchmarks, he added. "ESG funds by their nature tend to be a little more defensive and have a quality bias, and quality as an investment style has been in favour since the global financial crisis, so that's obviously helped as well," ...

JBWere: private ancillary funds increase in size, distributions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
... come in with their own views, and they are often aware that they're managing money for charitable donations," he said. "The bias is towards being quite conservative with PAFs. The exception to that rule is those people in PAFs who are very long term ...

Diversity Council Australia measures the bamboo ceiling

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
... cites four main barriers preventing people of Asian cultural background from ascending in Australian companies - cultural bias and stereotyping, westernised leadership models, lack of relationship capital, and "the case for culture not understood." Respondents ...

Ethinvest model portfolios continue to outperform

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
Proprietary model ASX50 and ASX100 portfolios developed by investment advisory firm Ethinvest outperformed mainstream indices by wide margins over the past one and two year periods, according to the firm. Trevor Thomas, Ethinvest managing director Ethinvest's ...

GRI undergoing governance process to become standard setter

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
... around whether you can be independent and have an independent due process, and is that even possible as all parties bring some bias," Whitaker said. "There is also some concern that if GRI is adopted by governments in regulation that it would become ...

CDP calls for corporate stewardship to manage water risks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
... 'within the fence line' focus may be attributed to a tendency to apply carbon mitigation strategies to water, coupled with a bias to tackle the most readily achievable targets first - water efficiency in direct operations," CDP said in the report. "Due ...

Ethinvest model portfolios outperform wider ASX indices

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... it's just the way it falls out of the screening preference. Those stocks have done well over the past 12 months. There is a bias away from energy and resources, and those companies tend not to pay outside dividends, are generally cyclical and have underperformed ...

Australian boards struggling with climate change adaptation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 APR 2013  |  NEWS
Most large Australian companies are struggling to find strategic responses to climate change adaptation challenges, "apparently paralysed by short-term profit first thinking, uncertain political risks and a corporate culture unused to volatility and ...

Dalton Nicol Reid: using ESG to find sustainable earnings

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... number of questions across the database to score the companies in our investment universe, across ESG characteristics. We bias towards the companies that score well and screen out gambling, tobacco, exposure to armaments and pornography." Dalton Nicol ...

LGS buys into IFC green bond issue

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... said. "It's performing in terms of our expectations," Hartnett said. "When you're looking at good ESG integration, there is a bias towards quality securities. We did notice earlier in the year where the markets had picked up again and just about everything ...