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ESG funding booms in Australia: Calastone

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 28 FEB 2022
... into actively managed funds in 2021, with Calastone saying passive strategies will struggle to gain ground until ESG standards are established. Additionally, the index found that $4 in every $10 of inflows to fixed income funds last year were devoted ...

Fear of greenwashing worse than reality: Report

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 AUG 2021
... investor confusion when it comes to identifying which companies or financial instruments conform to a given set of ESG standards," S&P said, discussing the labelling of green bonds specifically. "According to the Journal of Environmental Investing Report ...

Active funds quell passive flows

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 19 MAR 2021
... information is more restricted, and the home-market bias leaves investors with fewer assets that would meet global ESG standards, Calastone found. "ESG strategies have been a significant contributor to the success of active global equity funds. This ...

Aware Super shakes up SRI option

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2020
... revenue from fossil fuels and their supply chains, and provide scope to remove organisations that don't meet ESG standards. "Our members are increasingly telling us that environmental, social and governance issues are extremely important to them. ...

Lack of transparency in ESG funds criticised

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2020
... they pose to a company's business model. Academic research supports the assertion that companies that follow strong ESG standards are more likely to outperform those that don't." ESG research can be an integral part of a manager's investment approach ...

Retail investors surpass one million

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 21 AUG 2020
... consideration when selecting or exiting investments. "There is strong appetite for investments that demonstrate good ESG standards, and the desire for investors to align their investments to their values, goals and aspirations is notable across all age ...

S&P kicks companies off ESG index

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2020
... surprising companies kicked out. Twitter and Walmart were dropped from the ESG index for failing to meet certain ESG standards while Facebook, which was removed last year due to several controversies, made a re-entry. Twitter was ineligible for the index ...

Bearish sentiment bites Aussie investors

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2020
... investments, with 14% keen to do so in the future. "There is strong appetite for investments that demonstrate good ESG standards among Australians young and old," Choi said. "Older, wealthier investors place greater importance in good corporate governance ...

WTW launches ESG index strategy

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 18 SEP 2018
... risk and large capital to the biggest companies. It excludes a small number of companies that fail to meet minimum ESG standards. This means that investors retain the ability to proactively engage with individual companies to drive change, WTW said. ...

PIMCO launches ESG bond fund

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 11 APR 2017
... on three processes: exclusion of companies that don't meet PIMCO's ESG standard; favouring of companies with high ESG standards; and active engagement with companies to maintain and improve their ESG principles. The fund is overseen by both PIMCO managing ...
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