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Equity Trustees fined by ASIC

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2025  |  NEWS
... Australian Postal Corporation, and TCorp. The fund aims to provide returns above the Bloomberg AusBond Composite 0-5 Yr Index across all interest rate cycles. Since inception, it's achieved a net return of 2.60% against the benchmark's 1.38% ...

Podcast: How direct indexing could supercharge ESG investing

THE GREENER WAY  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2025  |  NEWS
While still at a very nascent stage in Australia, direct indexing holds great potential - particularly for ESG and responsible investors. Investing in line with your values is a very idiosyncratic desire as what's important to one investor can differ ...

ETF Shares to bolster sales team

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUN 2025  |  NEWS
... It's a rare opportunity to help shape the future of financial services from the ground up." ETF Shares - the first new index ETF issuer to launch in Australia in over a decade - began trading in May and has already accumulated $20 million in assets ...

Proposals against ESG, DEI to increase: Proxy advisor

MATT TOLEDO  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAY 2025  |  NEWS
... decelerated, with ISS-Corporate expecting more companies to eliminate these metrics this proxy season. Of companies in the S&P 500 Index, 10% applied DEI metrics in executive compensation in 2021, rising to 41% in 2023 and staying flat in 2024, according ...

Index investors keen on proxy voting: Vanguard

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAY 2025  |  NEWS
... firms altogether for the ability to influence proxy voting. "At Vanguard, we believe long-term shareholders - including index fund investors - play a critical role in a healthy corporate governance ecosystem," Galloway said. "Proxy voting is central ...

Munro takes climate fund to New Zealand

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 14 APR 2025  |  NEWS
... the circular economy and energy efficiency. It also aims to achieve a return greater than the MSCI All Country World (Net) Index in $NZ (Net) over a five- to seven-year period. Having launched in 2021, the Munro Climate Change Leaders Fund has returned ...

Future Super, Verve to overhaul investments

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 14 APR 2025  |  NEWS
... leadership, and inclusivity. The new option focused on gender equity will screen for the same five thematics as its Gender Equity Index does: gender pay parity, anti-sexual harassment and workplace safety policies and practices; formal commitments to ...

Quinbrook achieves record financing for solar, battery storage project

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
... ensuring that it is compensated for having enough power during high demand. The agreement could bring the total contracted and index linked revenues for the project to over £480 million, Quinbrook added. Lloyds head of infrastructure and project finance ...

ESG funds third-best performing asset class

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 17 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
... stable," Rainmaker said. Over a three-year period, Vanguard's three products - International Shares Select Exclusion Index Fund, Ethically Conscious International Shares Index Fund, and Ethically Conscious International Shares Index ETF, dominated ...

GCQ enters ETF market, expands sales team

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... power of marquee companies. The firm said its portfolio's net return for January was 6.4% compared to the MSCI World AUD index, which was 2.4% for the month. Returns were broad-based, with a meaningful contribution from Richmond Amazon, Visa Inc. ...
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