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Investment professionals identify key ESG themes for 2017

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 JAN 2017  |  NEWS
... are pushing for more and greater diversity across the spectrum of investments and strategies, from ESG integration to ethical or responsible investments to thematic investments aimed at environmental and social themes. "What we're going to see first ...

Escala Partners choose Ownership Matters to provide proxy advisory research

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JAN 2017  |  NEWS
... their clients to assess their ESG processes, Roux said. "I'm wary about funds being marketed as some kind of sustainable ethical screening process, and when you' dig beneath, there's little to support that," she said. "People are subverting what should ...

RIAA conference to consider impact of consumer demand for ethical funds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 NOV 2016  |  NEWS
The strong surge in consumer interest and demand for responsible and ethical investment and retirement products is a challenge and an opportunity for the financial services industry, the key theme of the upcoming Responsible Investment Association Australasia ...

LGS adapts investment screens for Sustainable Australian Shares option

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 AUG 2016  |  NEWS
... companies based on their corporate conduct. SAS is one of LGS's investment options and is aimed at members seeking more ethical investments. SAS is actively managed and has funds under management of AU$14 million. LGS has more than AU$10 billion in assets ...

Banks, fund managers developing ethical cash products

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2016  |  NEWS
... and banks are focusing their attention on cash as an asset class that can be developed into responsible investment and ethical cash products, driven by retail demand and core business strategy. Sasha Courville, head of social innovation at NAB The Responsible ...

Treasury Corporation of Victoria issues green bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUL 2016  |  NEWS
... giving investors the confidence of an triple-A rated government security, with the assurance that funds will be used for ethical and environmentally friendly investments." There were 17 investors in the green bond, including insurance companies, funds ...

Responsible investment AUM tops AU$630 billion: RIAA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUL 2016  |  NEWS
... valuation. That case is ever-stronger each year. Companies such as VW, some of the financial services scandals, and other ethical breaches, etc., can demonstrate that ESG risk is very real and is part of mainstream investment management." There has also ...

Investors seeking ESG themes, factors in fixed income portfolios

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUL 2016  |  NEWS
... funds on the retail and institutional side in Australia, but fund managers find that while retail investment in ESG and ethical bonds funds is growing, institutional investors are still working to integrate ESG metrics into their strategies. Ian Woods ...

UCA Funds Management hires Benjamin Pedley

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAY 2016  |  NEWS
... Pedley is returning to Australia after 17 years' experience across Asia. He cites the growth of interest in ethical investment in Australia and UCA Fund Management's investment track record. "The ethical aspect is something that attracted me to this ...

UCA Funds Management publishes annual report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 APR 2016  |  NEWS
... Development Fund and the Uniting Growth Fund are now designated as managed investment schemes and have been retitled the Uniting Ethical Enhanced Cash Trust and the Uniting Ethical Australian Equities Trust, respectively. The move to responsible entity ...